The music icon introduced at a press occasion on Wednesday that his subsequent world tour can be his final. The three-year tour will begin in September, John informed CNN’s Anderson Cooper in a sit-down chat that was live-streamed all over the world.
“I’ve been touring since I was 17 with various bands,” John stated. “I thought the time is right to say thank you to all my fans and say goodbye.”
John stated his priorities modified when he and his husband, David Furnish, had youngsters.
“We had children and had changed our lives and in 2015 we sat down with their school schedule and we said I’m going to miss too much of this,” he informed Cooper.
There had been hypothesis for a number of days over what John’s announcement could be after a countdown clock was posted to his official web site with lyrics from his hit track, “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.”
John stated on Wednesday that he determined in 2015 that this is able to be his final tour, telling Cooper, “I can’t go on forever.” The tour is named “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” however this isn’t farewell endlessly. John stated he nonetheless needs to make extra albums.
“I’m not worried about stopping,” he stated.
John hits the highway on September 8 for a tour that can embrace 300 exhibits throughout 5 continents. Tickets for “Farewell Yellow Brick Road” go on sale February 2.
Fans also can catch the Rocket Man in Las Vegas, the place John is on his second residency at Caesars Palace. The singer needed to cancel a couple of exhibits final yr after he was hospitalized for a bacterial an infection he contracted whereas he was on tour in South America. “The Million Dollar Piano” present will finish in May.
John, 70, can be scheduled to carry out a duet with Miley Cyrus on the Grammy Awards this weekend at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
He’s additionally acting at a post-Grammys live performance on January 30, “Elton John: I’m Still Standing-A Grammy Salute,” which is able to embrace performances by Sam Smith, Chris Martin, John Legend and Keith Urban.
John is a celebrated artist whose self-titled 1970 debut reached No. 4 on the Billboard 200 and gave him his first Top 10, “Your Song,” in response to the Grammy’s official web site. He’s received 5 Grammy Awards, a Tony and an Academy Award.
Early in his profession, John was recognized for flamboyant costumes and wild glasses. He’s taken the stage carrying a duck go well with, a sequined baseball uniform and a Ronald McDonald outfit. He wore the colorful garments to assist create a spectacle and offset his shyness onstage.
He is the third most profitable Billboard Hot 100 artist of all time, in response to the journal’s tally of gross sales for music launched between 1958 and 2015. Only the Beatles and Madonna rank greater.
John is at the moment collaborating on a Broadway musical based mostly on “The Devil Wears Prada,” the 2003 ebook written by Lauren Weisberger, which was changed into a movie in 2006 starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway.