Elton John bids farewell to the British public at the Glastonbury level

At seventy six, the singer is on a global excursion to bid farewell to the level. But no longer to the song: a new album must see the light of day within the fall.

Elton John bids farewell to the British public on Sunday evening on the degree of the mythical Glastonbury competition, within the south west of England, wherein he's collaborating for the primary time. The 76-yr-antique superstar, who will quit his world farewell tour in Stockholm on July 8, is anticipated at the stop of this 51st version through tens of hundreds of pageant-goers at the Pyramid Stage, the most important degree of the occasion.

Four marvel visitors are announced. Speculation is rife, many of the names circulating, Harry Styles, Billy Joel, Ed Sheeran or Britney Spears, or maybe Dua Lipa, who has already made an appearance at Sir Elton’s last live performance in Los Angeles ultimate year , along Brandi Carlile. “It’s the primary time I’ve been requested” to play at Glastonbury, Elton John discovered at the end of May in an interview with the BBC. “It comes at the right time, I accept as true with in destiny and it’s the most magnificent manner to finish in England.”

A new album in the fall

Sunday’s display guarantees to be exclusive from what audiences noticed at some point of the star’s tour, who deployed extravagant costumes and wonderful visible consequences to accompany her titles Tiny Dancer, Rocket Man or Your Song. This live performance “could be very unique”her husband David Furnish instructed British channel Sky News this week, with a «setlist» different.

Elton John, moved with the aid of a “healthy” anxiousness earlier than this display in step with David Furnish, had already made it recognized that he would begin with a track that he has now not performed for 10 years. But if Elton John says good-bye to the scene, he plans to work on a brand new album within the fall.

The farewell tour of the singer who bought 300 million information global, referred to as Farewell Yellow Brick Road and at the beginning scheduled to run for three years, kicked off in 2018 with over three hundred dates scheduled. But she has been disrupted because of the coronavirus pandemic, hip surgical operation in 2021 and checking out wonderful for Covid last 12 months.

A shower of stars

Before Elton John, Blondie, Yusuf / Cat Stevens, rapper Lil Nas X or Sophie Ellis-Bextor are anticipated on Sunday at the Pyramid Stage. Sunday nighttime’s surprises are a ways from the most effective ones from this Glastonbury antique. Friday, the Foo Fighters, for the primary time in 25 years at the pageant, tumbled for a wonder concert, wherein a mysterious group, the “Churnups”, was announced. Foo Fighters frontman and former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl was additionally invited to join Guns N’Roses on degree – for his or her first appearance at the festival – for a revisited ‘Paradise City’, as well as the Pretenders.

Among the alternative headliners, Lana Del Rey encountered technical issues which led her to launch an a capella to the public, whilst the Arctic Monkeys, Lewis Capaldi – confronted with voice problems, Amadou & Mariam, or even Rick Astley and his unmissable Never Gonna Give You Up who made him a celebrity in 1987.

Glastonbury, an occasion created in 1970 and which has become mythical twenty years later, which has seen the most important stars parade, closed its 2022 edition with Paul McCartney, who at 80 had set the festival on fireplace by using taking up classics from Beatles. Soul legend Diana Ross changed into also in attendance. The pageant welcomes more than 2 hundred,000 festival-goers who arrive with tents and backpacks. At the beginning of November, tickets sold out in just over an hour for the 2023 version, notwithstanding a price coming near four hundred euros.