{"id":1521,"date":"2020-03-06T17:40:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T17:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2020-03-13T15:06:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T15:06:36","slug":"elton-john-philadelphia-freedom-1975","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/?p=1521","title":{"rendered":"Elton John ~ Philadelphia Freedom<\/em> (1975)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Elton John ~ Philadelphia Freedom<\/em> (1975)<\/h1>\n

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EJ and Billie Jean King<\/em><\/p>\n

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EJ wrote the this tune\u00a0and released it in 1976 as an anthem for Billie Jean King’s professional tennis team<\/a> <\/strong>of the same name.<\/p>\n

This muscular performance at London’s Royal Opera House is much more recent and pulls out all the stops with the help of a full symphony orchestra.<\/p>\n

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Like most people, I thought “Philadelphia Freedom”<\/em> was a\u00a0salute from\u00a0Elton John to America on the eve of our bicentennial. It wasn’t, but it was a damned good tune anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-popular-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.oganovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Elton-John-performing-in-Philadelphia.jpg?fit=550%2C344&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1544,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions\/1544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}