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There was Crocodile Rockin’ on the White House South Lawn.
Even rocker Elton John was blown away by the glamorous setting in front of the White House on Friday night, with President Joe Biden and wife Jill Biden in attendance.
«I don’t know what to say, what a dump,» John, 75, joked as he took the stage with a lit-up White House in the background, before getting serious. «I’ve played in some beautiful places before, but this is probably the icing on the cake.»
John swung by South Lawn for a show called “A Night When Hope and History Rhyme,” a reference to a poem by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney that President Joe Biden often quotes.
A giant open-air tent and stage were set up on the White House lawn for the show. The 2,000-person guest list included teachers, nurses, frontline workers and LGBTQ advocates, plus civil rights advocate Ruby Bridges and Jeanne White-Ginder, an AIDS activist and mother of Ryan White, who died from AIDS-related complications in 1990.
