{"id":18253,"date":"2024-06-30T19:16:49","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T19:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=18253"},"modified":"2024-06-30T19:36:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T19:36:55","slug":"elton-john-confirms-retirement-from-touring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=18253","title":{"rendered":"Elton John confirms retirement from touring"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Elton John is sticking to his retirement plans. During a Thursday, June 27, interview with Entertainment Tonight, the \u201cRocket Man\u201d singer, 77, firmly answered \u201cno\u201d when asked whether he plans to ever tour again.<\/p>\n

John\u2019s husband, David Furnish, chimed in to say that the pair want to focus on their sons, Zachary, 13, and Elijah, 11.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got our sons, you know, they\u2019re getting into their teenage years now,\u201d Furnish, 61, said. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to miss anything. We want to be present for that. It\u2019s sort of a key decade, I think, in a child\u2019s life. He\u2019s been doing it for 60 years, so it\u2019s nice to have that time to spend at home with family.\u201d<\/p>\n

John added that he\u2019s satisfied with his last hurrah being the final show of his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour, which took place in Stockholm in July 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last show in Stockholm on the farewell tour after Glastonbury, I got in the car and went, \u2018Yes! Yes!\u2019 We went out on the biggest high, just the way I wanted to, and there\u2019s no going back [after] that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour kicked off in 2018 and was initially meant to end in 2021. However, the coronavirus pandemic and a hip injury that Elton sustained in 2021 pushed the final show back.<\/p>\n

John\u2019s last song in Stockholm was, fittingly, \u201cGoodbye Yellow Brick Road.\u201d He thanked the crowd for a \u201cmagical\u201d end to his touring life and reflected on his \u201cwonderful\u201d career.<\/p>\n

Fifty two years of pure joy, playing music. How lucky am I to play music? But I wouldn\u2019t be sitting here and talking to you if it wasn\u2019t for you. You bought the singles, the CDs, the albums, the cassettes. But more importantly, you bought the tickets to the shows. And you know how much I love to play live. It\u2019s been my lifeblood to play for you guys. You\u2019ve been absolutely magnificent. Thank you,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The EGOT winner reiterated that he would \u201cnever be touring again\u201d but teased \u201cone-off\u201d performances in the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut that\u2019s miles away. I want to appreciate my family, my sons, my husband, everything,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

John and Furnish gushed about completing their family after welcoming Elijah via surrogate in January 2013.<\/p>\n

Both of us have longed to have children, but the reality that we now have two sons is almost unbelievable,\u201d the couple told Hello! magazine at the time. \u201cThe birth of our second son completes our family in a most precious and perfect way. It is difficult to fully express how we are feeling at this time; we are just overwhelmed with happiness and excitement.<\/p>\n

John married Furnish in 2014 after same-sex marriage became legal in the United Kingdom. The pair started dating in 1993 and formed a civil partnership in 2005. Furnish gave John a sweet shout-out in honor of his 77th birthday in March.<\/p>\n

Happy Birthday to my irrepressible husband @eltonjohn. You are the best father, hardest working artist and musician, bountiful humanitarian, loving partner, and most loyal friend,\u201d he wrote via Instagram. \u201cLove you forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

John wrote in the comments, \u201cI love you and am so incredibly lucky to have you in my life, thank you for everything.\u201d<\/p>

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