‘Emotional’ Elton John closes out Glastonbury pageant
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By AFP
“I never thought I’d ever play Glastonbury,” he informed the gang.
“It’s a very special and emotional night for me –- it might be my very last show in England, in Great Britain, so I’d better play well and entertain you.”
The 76-year-old pop celebrity is winding down a glittering stay profession with a worldwide farewell tour, having performed his final concert events within the United States in May forward of a closing gig in Stockholm on July 8.
Glastonbury, Britain’s best-known music pageant, has been hosted on a farm in southwest England for 5 many years.
John took to the primary Pyramid Stage on Sunday night time, his followers eagerly awaiting the identification of 4 “collaborators” set to affix him who’ve but to be introduced.
“Elton’s a legend,” PhD pupil Giles Briscoe, 26, informed AFP as he headed to the stage hours forward of the set, carrying a reproduction of the enduring baseball outfit John wore at his well-known 1975 concert events at Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles.
“The fact that he’s going to perform on such a big stage, at such a historic moment of his career, is such a big event.”
Eclectic ethos
John’s husband David Furnish revealed that the 4 completely different company would function on stage, promising the present would differ from the worldwide icon’s units on his marathon Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour over current years.
“This one is very special. It is not just another day in the office,” Furnish informed Sky News.
He additionally revealed that John wouldn’t cease making music after the tour ends subsequent month, and would begin work on a brand new studio album later this 12 months.
John’s UK swansong caps days of big-name performances in entrance of greater than 200,000 followers at Glastonbury, together with veteran US rockers Guns N’Roses, who had been making their debut on the long-running pageant within the coveted Saturday night time headline slot.
They rocked by means of their intensive catalogue throughout a two-hour-plus set, enjoying hits together with “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door”, “Sweet Child O’ Mine” and “November Rain”.
Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, whose band performed a so-called secret slot Friday, joined them onstage to assist play a particular rendition of “Paradise City”.
Other acts enjoying this 12 months included UK indie giants Arctic Monkeys, singer Lizzo, rapper Lil Nas X, post-punk icon Blondie and “rickroller” Rick Astley, highlighting Glastonbury’s eclectic ethos.
On Saturday a supportive crowd sang alongside as Scottish singer Lewis Capaldi, who suffers from Tourette’s syndrome, struggled to complete his set.
He introduced he would take a break, after beforehand cancelling gigs to recuperate over well being considerations.
No mud
Dairy farmer Michael Eavis first organised the pageant in 1970, the day after Jimi Hendrix died, and followers who got here to see acts together with Marc Bolan and Al Stewart paid £1 every for entry and obtained free milk from the farm.
It was held intermittently within the Seventies, but it surely wasn’t till the Nineties that it actually started to accumulate its cult standing.
While ready to attract the largest performers from each style and technology, it’s equally identified for internet hosting 1000’s of small acts and leftfield occasions throughout the large Worthy Farm web site, in addition to for occasionally wet and muddy situations.
More than 100,000 normal tickets for this 12 months’s pageant bought out in simply over an hour, regardless of the value rising to £335 ($427) this 12 months.
Fans dragging tents, rucksacks and booze started flocking to the location Tuesday, forward of gates opening the next day and the stay music kicking off on Friday.
“I never thought I’d ever play Glastonbury,” he informed the gang.
“It’s a very special and emotional night for me –- it might be my very last show in England, in Great Britain, so I’d better play well and entertain you.”
The 76-year-old pop celebrity is winding down a glittering stay profession with a worldwide farewell tour, having performed his final concert events within the United States in May forward of a closing gig in Stockholm on July 8.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2′); );
Glastonbury, Britain’s best-known music pageant, has been hosted on a farm in southwest England for 5 many years.
John took to the primary Pyramid Stage on Sunday night time, his followers eagerly awaiting the identification of 4 “collaborators” set to affix him who’ve but to be introduced.
“Elton’s a legend,” PhD pupil Giles Briscoe, 26, informed AFP as he headed to the stage hours forward of the set, carrying a reproduction of the enduring baseball outfit John wore at his well-known 1975 concert events at Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles.
“The fact that he’s going to perform on such a big stage, at such a historic moment of his career, is such a big event.”
Eclectic ethos
John’s husband David Furnish revealed that the 4 completely different company would function on stage, promising the present would differ from the worldwide icon’s units on his marathon Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour over current years.
“This one is very special. It is not just another day in the office,” Furnish informed Sky News.
He additionally revealed that John wouldn’t cease making music after the tour ends subsequent month, and would begin work on a brand new studio album later this 12 months.
John’s UK swansong caps days of big-name performances in entrance of greater than 200,000 followers at Glastonbury, together with veteran US rockers Guns N’Roses, who had been making their debut on the long-running pageant within the coveted Saturday night time headline slot.
They rocked by means of their intensive catalogue throughout a two-hour-plus set, enjoying hits together with “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door”, “Sweet Child O’ Mine” and “November Rain”.
Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, whose band performed a so-called secret slot Friday, joined them onstage to assist play a particular rendition of “Paradise City”.
Other acts enjoying this 12 months included UK indie giants Arctic Monkeys, singer Lizzo, rapper Lil Nas X, post-punk icon Blondie and “rickroller” Rick Astley, highlighting Glastonbury’s eclectic ethos.
On Saturday a supportive crowd sang alongside as Scottish singer Lewis Capaldi, who suffers from Tourette’s syndrome, struggled to complete his set.
He introduced he would take a break, after beforehand cancelling gigs to recuperate over well being considerations.
No mud
Dairy farmer Michael Eavis first organised the pageant in 1970, the day after Jimi Hendrix died, and followers who got here to see acts together with Marc Bolan and Al Stewart paid £1 every for entry and obtained free milk from the farm.
It was held intermittently within the Seventies, but it surely wasn’t till the Nineties that it actually started to accumulate its cult standing.
While ready to attract the largest performers from each style and technology, it’s equally identified for internet hosting 1000’s of small acts and leftfield occasions throughout the large Worthy Farm web site, in addition to for occasionally wet and muddy situations.
More than 100,000 normal tickets for this 12 months’s pageant bought out in simply over an hour, regardless of the value rising to £335 ($427) this 12 months.
Fans dragging tents, rucksacks and booze started flocking to the location Tuesday, forward of gates opening the next day and the stay music kicking off on Friday.
