Elton John’s Rocket Pictures, which is to produce Sherlock Gnomes, the 3D animated sequel to the Disney-released Gnomeo & Juliet, has announced that John Stevenson, director of Kung Fu Panda, will direct the new film. According Rocket CEO and producer Steve Hamilton Shaw, John Stevenson “has the perfect sensibility for this movie, together with the […]
On Monday, October 15, 2012, the Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF) will present its 11th annual An Enduring Vision benefit at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. Award-winning CNN anchor Anderson Cooper will host, and Founder Sir Elton John and Chairman David Furnish will pay tribute to several esteemed philanthropists by presenting EJAF’s Enduring […]
Matt Bissonette is confirmed as bass player and backing vocalist for the Elton John band, following the sudden death of Bob Birch. Matt is currently rehearsing in Los Angeles with the band, ahead of the North American tour which begins on September 11 at the Mississippi Coliseum, Jackson, Mississippi. Matt Bissonette is a musician, writer […]
After a year of cat fighting, it appears ageing pop icons Madonna and Sir Elton John have kissed and made up. Just weeks after Sir Elton told Molly Meldrum he thought the Material Girl, left, looked like a “f…..g fairground stripper” the pair ran into each other at upmarket restaurant La Petite Maison in Nice, […]
It looks like Bel Ami star Dolph Lambert has taken up Elton John and David Furnish’s St. Tropez newly-empty guest room after Neil Patrick Harris and family headed back to the states. Word on the grapevine is Elton has a taste for Bel Ami’s stable of stars and regularly hosts them when he’s in Prague. […]
Bob Birch, bass player and backing vocalist in Elton John’s band, died yesterday at the age of 56. Following Bob’s death, Elton made the following tribute: โI am devastated and shocked at the loss of my friend and fellow musician, Bob Birch. My heart goes out to Bobโs wife Michele, his son Jonathan and his […]
Robert Wayne Birch, a bass guitarist who played with Elton John and Billy Joel among many other huge artists, is dead after apparently having shot and killed himself this morning … TMZ has learned. Law enforcement sources tell us … Birch was found around the corner from his home, dead from a gunshot wound to […]
Live Design expands its Master Classes series with the inaugural Concert Sound Master Classes on October 18-19-20-21 at LDI2012 in Las Vegas, with sound designer/FOH engineer Jim van Bergen as creative consultant. Highlights include a performance of Elton John’s Million Dollar Piano in The Colosseum at Caesar’s Palace on Thursday evening, October 18, as well […]
He recently admitted becoming a father to baby son Zachary has changed his life for good. But Sir Elton John proved he certainly still knows how to let his hair down as he took a break from juggling work and parenting to party with a group of pals in the South of France. The […]
The cheeky gesture happened when Walliams and Sir Elton’s boat passed Cowell’s on the French Riviera. Walliams, star of Little Britain and a judge on Britain’s Got Talent, shouted across to music mogul Cowell: ‘I’ve got something for you.’ He then bared his backside before Rocket Man singer Elton joined in the fun by also […]