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“WEIRD AL” YANKOVIC

When “Weird Al” Yankovic attended Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road farewell tour earlier this year at the Los Angeles Forum, it felt like things had come full circle.

“My very first concert was Elton John at the Los Angeles Forum,” Yankovic wrote during a recent e-mail interview. “My parents were very protective

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