ELTON JOHN and BRITNEY SPEARS. In a restaurant in Cannes, singer Elton John surprised everyone by performing an excerpt from his song with Britney Spears, expected this Friday.
A lunch on the terrace… interrupted by Elton John. It’s a usual stopover for the British popstar: the restaurant La Guérite, in Cannes. The singer took the microphone to perform an excerpt from the song Hold Me Closercover of his tube, in duet with Britney Spears and which must be published this Friday August 26, 2022. Elton John published this video sequence on his Instagram account: we discover him in summer costume, surrounded by a large crowd of onlookers, intoning his 1971 title in an electro version.
An improvised concert announcing the release of this long-awaited song, especially since it marks Britney Spears’ return to music. The singer, recently freed from the guardianship of her father, has not released an unreleased track since 2016 and the album Glory. Elton John for his part, simply did it again: last year, he had already surprised the entire terrace of the same restaurant by interpreting cold hearthis duet with singer Dua Lipa.
Elton John was born in Pinner, Middlesex, England on March 25, 1947. This is where Reginald Kenneth Dwight, alias Elton John, was born. The boy follows musical studies very early and discovers that the piano is his favorite instrument. He also sings very well and has a wide range. He works the piano, first in a thorough classical formation, then by integrating bases of gospel, jazz, rock and boogie-woogie.
At the same time, he develops a musical culture which leads him to intervene on the radio to share his knowledge. His record collection only confirms his appetite for musical knowledge.
The 1970s got off to a flying start for the young Elton Hercules John, who changed his name. With his group, he achieves a real performance: releasing 17 albums in 9 years, including 7 which raise the young man to the top of the charts. Eccentric, dynamic and billionaire, Elton John is on all fronts, and plays with his image to provoke. He declares himself bisexual to finally fully assume his homosexuality. After a complicated decade in the 1980s, he regained his notoriety in 1990 with the single “Sacrifice” which proved the melodist he was, apart from his folk rock compositions.
From then on, her private and professional life was placed under the sign of success: albums that sold millions, unforgettable duets and a fulfilling family life with her husband and two children. Elton John is recognized today for his incomparable talent, his longevity in the profession and his unique performances, even dethroning Elvis Presley, placing a single in the top 40 for thirty consecutive years. Second biggest seller of solo albums of all time, with more than 3,000 concerts to his credit, Elton John has left an indelible mark on the history of music.
In 1984, Elton John married a German sound engineer, Renate Blauel. The couple divorced four years later, in 1988. The singer decided to assume his homosexuality, in a society where the change of mentalities was finally felt. In 1993, he met David Furnish, a Canadian documentary filmmaker. The couple married in Windsor, England on December 21, 2005, the same day the Civil Partnership came into force, which legalized marriage for all couples. After sixteen years of relationship, Elton John and David Furnish decide to have a child: Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John was born on December 25, 2010. Their second son, Elijah Daniel Joseph Furnish-John was born two years later, on January 11, 2013 , from the same surrogate mother. The two little boys have Lady Gaga as godmother. Elton John and David Furnish remarry, civilly, on December 21, 2014.
“I was 24 hours away from going there.” In an interview with the British channel BBC1 for the documentary “Uncensored”, Elton John made some confidences about the cancer that affected him in 2017. He recounts having been close to death during a trip to South Africa. “I came home to London and I was really sick. I was taken to hospital in intensive care,” the 72-year-old singer begins in the interview reported by the British site The Independent. “I caught a germ somewhere. And I was 24 hours away from it. We hadn’t told people what was going on at the time, I had a annus horribilis (a “horrible year” in Latin editor’s note.) as they say. I literally had to learn to walk again. I was extremely sick. All I could think of when I was lying in bed was, ‘please don’t let me die, I want to see my children’. And luckily, I survived,” recalls Elton John.
“Now I’m fine, but I have a little left (from the consequences of the cancer): I don’t have a hair, I have a pacemaker, I have no more tonsils, no more prostate, no more “Appendix, I had network calculations. I’m like the Bionic Woman”, concludes the singer. In the BBC1 documentary, his fight against cancer is not the only health topic he discusses. Elton John also talks about his other fight, against alcohol. “I drank a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black (a brand of whiskey editor’s note) a day,” he says, for example. A daily war also won by the artist, today in full world tour.
Released in 2019 and directed by Dexter Fletcher, the biopic Rocketman tells us about the extraordinary life of Elton John, from his first successes to his international consecration. We (re)discover the metamorphosis of Reginald Dwight, his real name, a shy young pianist, into an international superstar. Now known and recognized as Elton John, he alone accounts for 2% of the global music industry.
The film Rocketman covers some of the singer’s most beautiful songs and takes us in the footsteps of this young prodigy who has become an intergenerational icon. “I had been in the cinema for 15 minutes before I started to cry. I was not prepared for the force of what I was seeing”, had also commented Elton John in a column published in the Guardianafter the screening of the film.
After a first postponement, Elton John was to give three concerts at the Accor Arena in Paris, he announced on Thursday September 16, 2021, to postpone his visit to the capital. The singer was expected at the Bercy concert hall from October 10 to 13 as part of the Elton John Farewell Yellow Brick Road: The Final Tour, a world farewell tour, postponed to 2022. In a statement, Sir Elton John said: “At the end of my summer holidays, I had an unfortunate fall and have since suffered from pain and discomfort. considerable at the hip.” Aged 74, he then had to undergo an operation and was therefore forced to postpone many dates.
2022, the year of Elton John. The artist performed on Saturday and Sunday June 12 at Paris La Défense Arena. Two dates awaited by admirers of Elton John, who had to take their troubles patiently after several postponements due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Especially since this tour, called Farewell Yellow Brick Roadwill be the last of the interpreter of Your Song.
Elton John gave a scintillating show to the 32,000 people at the Paris Défense Arena, behind his piano, silencing recent rumors about his state of health.
The opportunity for us to take an interest in the state of health of the artist, who had worried his fans by appearing in a wheelchair before the concert of the jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II last week. A concern that had prompted Elton John to speak. “I want to thank all my fans for checking in on me after the tabloids ran a silly story about me ‘looking fragile’ in a wheelchair. The truth is, I’m in excellent health, I love my shows and that I perform and sing at my best. I give my 100% every night and never want to disappoint, especially after everyone has waited so long to start seeing shows again. every show is amazing and I enjoy them every minute,” said Elton John on his Instagram account.