{"id":107557,"date":"2023-05-30T17:42:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T17:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/30\/the-piano-wont-go-away-forever-says-elton-john-in-bbc-interview\/"},"modified":"2023-05-30T17:42:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T17:42:56","slug":"the-piano-wont-go-away-forever-says-elton-john-in-bbc-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/30\/the-piano-wont-go-away-forever-says-elton-john-in-bbc-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Piano Won\u2019t Go Away Forever,\u2019 Says Elton John In BBC Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.udiscovermusic.com\/artist\/elton-john\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Elton John<\/strong><\/a> says in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/live:bbc_radio_two\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>a brand new interview<\/strong><\/a> with the BBC that \u201cthe piano won\u2019t go away forever\u201d when he completes his <em>Farewell Yellow Brick Road<\/em> tour in July, and that his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udiscovermusic.com\/news\/elton-john-2023-glastonbury-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>last UK present<\/strong><\/a> at Glastonbury Festival will characteristic yet-to-be-revealed particular friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.udiscovermusic.com\/collections\/elton-john\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shop the very best of Elton John\u2019s discography on vinyl and extra<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The famous person\u2019s final London present is tonight (30) at The O2, and his UK tour contains his headline slot at Glastonbury Festival on June 25. That\u2019s set to be his last present in his personal nation, though when requested by BBC Radio 2\u2019s Scott Mills about his \u201cideal life when the tour is over,\u201d he says he&#8217;ll go on vacation for a few months, after which: \u201cEverything is up within the air\u2026the piano gained\u2019t go away without end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019ll be very sporadic, I really don\u2019t want to tour again. Doing a theatre thing for a few weeks might be appealing, but honestly, that\u2019s in the dim and distant future. I\u2019m not going back to Vegas. If I do anything, it will be here [in the UK].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of the Glastonbury look, he says: \u201cThis is the first time I\u2019ve been asked to play it\u2026it\u2019s come at the right time, I\u2019m a great believer in serendipity and fate and this is the most wonderful way to sign off in England.\u201d Promising a unique setlist from his traditional present, he says: \u201cI\u2019ve got guests and I can\u2019t tell you who they are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He provides that the <em>Farewell Yellow Brick Road<\/em> tour has \u201cbeen everything I\u2019d hoped it would be and more. The audiences have been amazing, dressing up\u2026some of them have been to 150 shows, 300 shows. They\u2019re treating it as a party, and that lifts my spirit every night. I have to say it\u2019s been better than I could ever have imagined it to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He displays: \u201cI\u2019m happy in my personal life and my professional life, everything in my life is so wonderful. So I think that\u2019s the reason why the performances really satisfy me.\u201d Asked if he&#8217;ll miss the touring life when he retires from it, he responds with an emphatic \u201cNo way. I do not want to fly anywhere [or] go anywhere, I just want to be still for a few months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Parton\u2019s album <em>Rockstar<\/em>, to be launched on November 17, will characteristic John on a brand new model of his Nineteen Seventies hit \u201cDon\u2019t Let The Sun Go Down On Me.\u201d Other stars on the covers-themed set embody <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udiscovermusic.com\/artist\/sting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sting<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udiscovermusic.com\/artist\/john-fogerty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>John Fogerty<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udiscovermusic.com\/artist\/peter-frampton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Peter Frampton<\/strong><\/a>, Simon Le Bon, Michael McDonald, and Stevie Nicks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the very best of Elton John on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/us\/playlist\/elton-john-essentials\/pl.72ee689fe3f84ce2b46a6913c2e6f5f1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple Music<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/3PhoLpVuITZKcymswpck5b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<!--US \/ UK English--><\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Elton John says in a brand new interview with the BBC that \u201cthe piano won\u2019t go away forever\u201d 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. Shop the very best of Elton John\u2019s discography on vinyl and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-107557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}