Elton John says in a brand new interview with the BBC that “the piano won’t go away forever” when he completes his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour in July, and that his last UK present at Glastonbury Festival will characteristic yet-to-be-revealed particular friends.
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The famous person’s final London present is tonight (30) at The O2, and his UK tour contains his headline slot at Glastonbury Festival on June 25. That’s set to be his last present in his personal nation, though when requested by BBC Radio 2’s Scott Mills about his “ideal life when the tour is over,” he says he’ll go on vacation for a few months, after which: “Everything is up within the air…the piano gained’t go away without end.
“It’ll be very sporadic, I really don’t want to tour again. Doing a theatre thing for a few weeks might be appealing, but honestly, that’s in the dim and distant future. I’m not going back to Vegas. If I do anything, it will be here [in the UK].”
Of the Glastonbury look, he says: “This is the first time I’ve been asked to play it…it’s come at the right time, I’m a great believer in serendipity and fate and this is the most wonderful way to sign off in England.” Promising a unique setlist from his traditional present, he says: “I’ve got guests and I can’t tell you who they are.”
He provides that the Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour has “been everything I’d hoped it would be and more. The audiences have been amazing, dressing up…some of them have been to 150 shows, 300 shows. They’re treating it as a party, and that lifts my spirit every night. I have to say it’s been better than I could ever have imagined it to be.”
He displays: “I’m happy in my personal life and my professional life, everything in my life is so wonderful. So I think that’s the reason why the performances really satisfy me.” Asked if he’ll miss the touring life when he retires from it, he responds with an emphatic “No way. I do not want to fly anywhere [or] go anywhere, I just want to be still for a few months.”
Parton’s album Rockstar, to be launched on November 17, will characteristic John on a brand new model of his Nineteen Seventies hit “Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me.” Other stars on the covers-themed set embody Sting, John Fogerty, Peter Frampton, Simon Le Bon, Michael McDonald, and Stevie Nicks.
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