Elton John is showing me the living room of his London home. It’s not a huge living room, or at least not by the standards of rock stars who have sold something in the region of 300m records (the London house is more of a pied-à-terre – his main UK residence is his estate in […]
Sir Elton John has ended his bitter eight-year feud with his mother Sheila. Confirming the pair have put their row behind them, he said yesterday: “We are now back in touch.” The Rocket Man, who has just launched his latest world tour in Paris, hadn’t spoken to Sheila since an explosive fall-out in 2008. And […]
Where in the world is Elton John’s biopic? “We are putting together our financing,” the music legend’s husband David Furnish told me earlier today at a preview of the Elton John AIDS Foundation’s Oscar party in West Hollywood. “It’s an ongoing process raising money for a film and we also want to make it in […]
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If the classic mid-20th century bungalows in Elton John’s new music video for Blue Wonderful look familiar, it could be because the video was shot on Carré Richard, a residential street in Châteauguay on Montreal’s South Shore. CBC Montreal’s Daybreak spoke to the video’s director, Thibaut Duverneix, about his use of acrobatics, working under a […]
The support act for Elton John’s gig in Lincoln has been announced. Northern Irish singer-songwriter Foy Vance, who has recently signed to Ed Sheeran’s Gingerbread Man Records, will perform prior to the Rocket Man’s ‘Wonderful Crazy Tour’ performance at Lincolnshire Showground. The gig will take place on June 10. Vance was born in Bangor County […]
According to fans attending the Million Dollar Piano show at Caesars Palace Colosseum on January 30, 2016, the performance was cancelled last minute due to Elton feeling nauseous. Ray Cooper, Elton’s percussion extraordinaire at The Million Dollar Piano in Las vegas has undergone heart surgery and will be recuperating for several months. John Mahon will […]
Kick The Robot was able to tour with 90s rock band Collective Soul for their southeastern run this past fall, and the band says that this experience truly propelled them forward and inspired them to work harder. “Playing for those huge crowds really stuck with us and having that experience definitely helped make us more […]
ELTON John’s Scots guitarist Davey Johnstone has revealed how a rocket from the Rocket Man helped save his life. Edinburgh-born musician Davey reckons he’s been on more booze and drugs benders than all The Rolling Stones put together. Yet he boasts he’s the only man Elton’s NOT SACKED after 40 years touring all over the […]
Below are some of the highlights of Elton’s promotion tour for his upcoming album, Wonderful Crazy Night. TELEVISION: COMING! The Wonderful World of Disney: Disneyland 60 (ABC, February 21 at 8 pm EST) A performance in front of Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland Park: Circle of Life, from Disney’s The Lion King, and Wonderful Crazy […]