{"id":1713,"date":"2016-02-29T05:06:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T13:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2016-02-29T05:06:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T13:06:08","slug":"elton-gives-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/02\/29\/elton-gives-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Elton Gives Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our first <em>Oscar <\/em>story actually happened on <em>Oscar <\/em>Eve, when <strong>Elton John <\/strong>gave a one-hour concert at the site of the old <em>Tower Records <\/em>on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood.\u00a0 John had a special guest during the concert &#8211; <strong>Lady Gaga <\/strong>joined him for a duet on &#8220;Don&#8217;t Let the Sun Go Down on Me&#8221;.\u00a0 The free concert actually wasn&#8217;t his idea.\u00a0 Elton told <strong>Sharon Osbourne<\/strong>, &#8220;It was an idea by <strong>David Furnish<\/strong>, my husband, who thought it would be great the night before the <em>Oscar <\/em>party, the day before the <em>Oscar <\/em>party, to do something to thank the City of West Hollywood who have been so amazing to us over the years.\u00a0 They give us the <em>West Hollywood Park <\/em>for nothing and we&#8217;re doing it to a) say thank you to them and b) because it&#8217;s a cool thing to do.&#8221;\u00a0 In case you don&#8217;t know, his annual <em>Academy Awards Viewing Party <\/em>(which funds the <em>Elton John AIDS Foundation<\/em>) is held in West Hollywood.\u00a0 Thanks, WeHo.\u00a0 And thanks, Elton and David.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first Oscar story actually happened on Oscar Eve, when Elton John gave a one-hour concert at the site of the old Tower Records on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood.\u00a0 John had a special guest during the concert &#8211; Lady Gaga joined him for a duet on &#8220;Don&#8217;t Let the Sun Go Down on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1718,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions\/1718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}