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Keith Urban Got Wife’s Permission To Use Wedding Footage In Vegas

Keith Urban is playing his Las Vegas residency shows this weekend before he wraps for a few months and returns to Vegas for more shows in June. Keith talked to…

Keith Urban Got Wife's Permission To Use Wedding Footage In Vegas
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Keith Urban is playing his Las Vegas residency shows this weekend before he wraps for a few months and returns to Vegas for more shows in June. Keith talked to People about featuring footage from his 2006 wedding to Nicole Kidman in his show.

While he performs his 2010 song "Without You," footage from the Australian wedding flashes on an oversized screen, giving fans a glimpse of the nuptials. Keith said, "I wanted to do it in a very organic way and find the right song. It was really more about choosing to do that song, 'Without You,' and how that felt like the right time for that."

Urban added that he got permission from his wife to air "just a little bit" of video from that day. He noted, "I don't know if that's her favorite song, but it was the right one for the footage."

Keith loves to keep things spontaneous in his Las Vegas show and often takes requests from the audience and plays songs on the post. At a recent, a fan requested that he perform Air Supply's "All Out of Love," a song Urban played in 1983 on the Australian TV talent show New Faces. He played it, but it had been a while. Urban said, "I couldn't believe I remembered the words. I probably haven't sung that song since I was 16. I have a sick memory for song lyrics. It's ridiculous, like, pretty ridiculous. I literally will not have played a song in 20 years, and I'll pick up a guitar and start playing it, and the words just come. I'm literally going, 'How do I know these words?'"

He doesn't remember everything, though, he admits, "But I'll lose my car keys just like that, so it's selective memory." He noted, "I love driving, and almost everywhere I go, I'll rent a car so that I can drive myself everywhere."

Urban continued, "I especially love driving after a gig. If it's just a little hike to wherever I'm staying, it's heaven to just be in the car on my own after a show. It's really nice coming off a stage with such an intense, rowdy environment to then immediately be in a car with something calm playing, or just some Ray Charles or something just completely chill."

Keith recently added some dates to his Planet Hollywood Zappos Theater shows for 2023. His 2023 dates are June 2023: 16, 17, 21, 23, 24, 28, 30, July 2023, and November 2023: 1, 3, 4, 10, 11, 15, 17, and 18.

Keith Urban is a superstar in country music and a gem of a man who plays the guitar like no one else before him or since. His concerts are epic, and he changes them for each city he is in to fit that city.

Recently in Nashville, he bought up-and-coming country singer, who sang in the bar across the street from the Bridgestone Arena, to sing with him giving her two songs and one heck of a push in the music industry.

In the same show, he brought out superstar Luke Combs to sing a couple of songs and even brought his wife, Oscar winner Nicole Kidman to the stage just to say hi to his fans.

It's hard to find just 20 songs that encompass the mega-career of Urban, but we ranked what we believe are his very best for his 55th birthday today (10/26).

20. "You're My Better Half" 2004

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19. "You Look Good in My Shirt" 2008

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18. "Kiss a Girl" 2009

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17. "John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16" 2015

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16. "Wasted Time" 2016

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15. "You'll Think of Me" 2004

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14. "Better Life" 2005

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13. "Blue Ain't Your Color" 2016

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12. "Sweet Thing" 2008

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11. "Raise 'Em Up" (featuring Eric Church) 2015

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10. "Somebody Like You" 2002

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9. "We Were" 2019

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8. "Days Go By" 2004

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7. "We Were Us" (with Miranda Lambert) 2013

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6. "But for the Grace of God" 2000

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5. "One Too Many" (with P!nk) 2020

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4. "God Whispered Your Name," 2020

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3. "Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me" 2003

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2. "Where the Blacktop Ends" 2001

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1."The Fighter" (featuring Carrie Underwood) 2017

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Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.