The 1910 Steinway & Sons grand piano used to record Elton John’s “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me” is one of 400 pieces of music history memorabilia from the legendary Caribou Ranch that will be auctioned next month by Leslie Hindman Auctioneers in Denver. Objects and instruments from the collection of music producer […]
Disney grants unprecedented access to its Broadway best, when Jesse Tyler Ferguson hosts Backstage With Disney on Broadway: Celebrating 20 Years. The special, airing on Sunday, Dec. 14 at 7pm ET takes viewers behind the scenes with the Broadway casts of The Lion King, Aladdin and the North American Tour of Newsies. Backstage with Disney […]
Sir Elton John took a tumble out of a chair at a charity tennis match in London on Sunday, drawing chuckles from both announcers and fans in the stands. The singer was serving as an honorary captain at a Statoil Masters Tennis event at Royal Albert Hall when he went to settle into a sideline […]
According to Davey Johnstone, Elton and his band have been working on a secret musical theatre project for Rocket Pictures. Apparently it ‘rocks like crazy and is slamming’. Expect more information around February. It could be for one of many upcoming EJ projects including; Rocketman, Gnomeo & Juliet 2, Animal Farm or Joseph. Further, Davey […]
Davey Johnstone talks about recording the background vocals for “Sick City”, the B side to Elton John’s 1974 single, “Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me.” “Pillars Of Hercules: Inside The Elton John Phenomenon” is a music documentary currently in production about the team behind Elton John’s incredible ascent to superstardom in the early […]
What a loss, what a wonderful sweet man. In the limited time that I spent in his company thankfully none of his demons were present, just the boundless energy and relentless good humor that endeared him to the world. I canโt think of Robin without recalling the last time I saw him at a birthday […]
“No more shows, no more music, no more songs.” Elton John announced last night at his show in Carcassonne, France. Announcing he will quit “The music business” to dedicate his life to “his children,” the great Elton surprised the audience of Jean Deschamps theater filled to the last seat. It was at the end of […]
The Very Best of Elton John is a greatest hits compilation album by Elton John, released in October 1990. His first career-retrospective album, and fourth official greatest-hits album, in all the album spent 145 weeks inside the UK top 200 album chart, making a total of 11 re-entries, and it was certified 9ร Platinum by […]
Caribou Ranch, the mountain outpost near Nederland where some of music’s biggest names once congregated and recorded โ from John Lennon and Michael Jackson to U2 and the Beach Boys โ has been sold for $32.5 million. The Denver Post’s Kristen Leigh Painter reports that owner James William Guercio sold the 1,600-acre property to an […]