MIAMI — The Rocket Man is retiring from the road.
Elton John carried out what he says was the past display on the final tour of his profession Saturday night.
The legendary, award-profitable musician took the phase for purportedly the previous time at any time as a touring artist in Stockholm, Sweden, according to his internet site.
In the caption for a movie posted to his formal Instagram Saturday, the British songs legend wrote, “What a journey this tour has been and now we discover ourselves at the finish of it. Tonight is the closing evening.”
The online video features a clip from a 2018 interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper in which the musician introduced his retirement from touring. “It really is the past time that I will be touring and traveling the world,” John says in the clip.
The five-time Grammy winner’s “Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour” kicked off in 2018 and was initially meant to conclusion in 2021 but was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The tour has been publicized as his final immediately after additional than five decades on the road.
The tour highlighted a lot more than 300 demonstrates and was attended by far more than 6 million enthusiasts throughout the world, according to John’s Instagram online video. The 76-year-previous musician headlined the Glastonbury Competition as his closing Uk halt on his farewell tour.
All through his 2018 interview with Cooper, John attributed his retirement from daily life on the highway to his conclusion to concentrate on his loved ones. The musician has two sons with spouse David Furnish.
“We experienced kids and had changed our life and in 2015, we sat down with their college routine and we explained I am likely to skip way too considerably of this,” he advised Cooper at the time.
He reported at the time that even though he was performed touring, he would go on working on new tunes.
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