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King Charles denied by Harry Styles, Adele, Elton John for coronation concert: Experts reveal why – Fox News
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Video shows footage of man being brutally beaten outside of Elton John concert
Thursday night’s alright for fighting: New video shows brutal beating of man outside Elton John concert at Dodger Stadium after he says HIS car was hit
- Shocking footage has emerged of the brutal beating one man took after an Elton John concert in Los Angeles last week
- The video shows the victim on the ground putting his hands up, but two assailants ruthlessly punch and kick until he’s unconscious
- The victim’s wife was also injured in the attack, and said nobody came to help them as they both lay on the floor
- Though neither are publicly identified, one of the two alleged assailants has been arrested by Los Angeles police
- The show was part of Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour, and the final of his sets at Dodgers Stadium
Shocking footage has emerged of the brutal beating one man took after an Elton John concert in Los Angeles last week, and one assailant has been arrested after pummeling the man unconscious.
The victim said he was leaving the concert when someone hit the side-view mirror of his car, where he and his wife were sitting.
When he got out of the car to ask who did it, a woman approached him and claimed it was her before attempting to put her hands on him.
The video shows the man on the ground with his hands up being punched repeatedly by another man in a blue shirt in the parking lot of Dodgers Stadium.
When the victim is kicked back down to the ground after attempting to get up, another attacker in a black shirt joins in and lands a violent punch to the face, seemingly knocking the beaten man unconscious.
The video begins with the man in the blue shirt beating the victim and kicking him back to the floor when he attempts to stand up
The man is then punched further as he lays defenseless on the floor, knocking him unconscious
The man in the black shirt even throws a female friend out of the way in order to get his punch in before attempting to charge a bystander and snatch his phone away.
While the two attackers haven’t been publicly identified, one suspect has been arrested in connection to the assault.
The victims also remain unidentified, but took their story to KCAL9 and details the harrowing attack.
‘Next thing I know, big gorilla’s coming at me. This guy was wailing on me. I fought back but I don’t think I did anything,’ the victim told KABC-TV.
It was at this point the main in the blue shirt came over and started punching him, which prompted the victim to shield himself.
This is around the point the video starts, and the man said ‘next thing I know I see other legs. People pummeling me. My wife came, she said she was pulling people off of me.’
While you can clearly see the man being beaten, his wife’s ordeal was also distressing.
She said she got out of the car after seeing the crowd form around her husband, but when she tried to help, she was grabbed by the hair and thrown to the ground.
‘I felt like I was rammed and thrown and my head hit the pavement, so I blacked out,’ she said.
Her husband backed that up and said ‘She was on the ground knocked out, I was knocked out. Nobody came to help us.’
While the two attackers haven’t been publicly identified, one suspect has been arrested in connection to the assault
The victim’s wife looks around helplessly as her husband is beaten unconscious on the ground, and asked ‘if I wasn’t there, if he had a brain injury and was bleeding to death, who would help him?’
‘To leave my husband on the floor laying to die… if I wasn’t there, if he had a brain injury and was bleeding to death, who would help him?’ she asked.
The two men can be seen fleeing at the end of the video as a crowd of curious onlookers follows.
The Los Angeles Police Department released a statement on the incident: ‘The City of Los Angeles is home to entertainment of many kinds. It is always tragic when acts of violence stain the public’s feeling of safety in attending such events.’
‘The Los Angeles Police Department is committed to restoring the public’s sense [of] safety and seeking justice in this instance and always,’ they added.
The show was part of Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour, and the final concert of his sets at Dodgers Stadium took place on Sunday.
The 75-year-old singer was joined on stage by other celebrities such as Dua Lipa, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger and Jude Law.
Elton John gets in one last farewell in New York
John’s actual last performance in the United States, a curious and minor epilogue to his grand adieu, was on Tuesday night when he briefly stopped traffic in one of America’s busiest commercial stretches to open the Christmas shopping season as the surprise guest performer at Saks Fifth Avenue’s annual reveal of its holiday windows and light show. It’s not the typical way one would expect a 75-year old Rock and Roll Hall of Famer to follow up the end of a 271-show stretch he started planning seven years ago.
But Saks is donating $1 million to the Elton John AIDS Foundation. And he and his family — his husband, David Furnish, and their two sons Zachary, 11, and Elijah, 9 — were already heading east to get back home to London. So, why not?
“I can’t think of a more magical way to close out my Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour in the U.S. than by being here on Fifth Avenue with my family, experiencing both my music and my work with the Elton John AIDS Foundation incorporated into New York’s most iconic holiday window displays and light show,” John said in a perfectly articulated quote to Saks PR, who were kind enough to pass it along to The Washington Post.
Furnish called it “a cherry on top of an incredibly beautiful cake” and “a very special one-off” in a phone interview. The whole point of doing it is because it is “an opportunity for EJAF,” said Furnish, who is also the foundation’s chairman of the board and John’s manager. But, as a bonus, “It’s going to kick off our family Christmas, which is wonderful,” he said.
As the hour grew near, police blocked off Fifth Avenue between 50th and 49th streets outside Saks’s flagship store. A sea of tourists, many in town for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, rushed into the traffic void, jostling to get a better look, without a clue that John was on his way, and with a stream of honking buses and taxis and pedicabs backed up behind them.
At exactly 7 p.m., a crew raced to wheel out a piano onto the pavement and two minutes later, John made his grand entrance, riding in on a golf cart decorated with big light-up stars, in a green jacket with red track pants, waving and blowing kisses. He thanked Saks, had David and the kids join him onstage for a countdown, and then launched into a heartfelt rendition of “Your Song.”
And only “Your Song.”
“It’s one song because we can’t close Fifth Avenue down for very long or we’re going to have a lot of angry New Yorkers,” said Furnish, laughing. “Your Song” was John’s choice because it was his first hit in America (and two minutes shorter than “Tiny Dancer”).
John barely had time to soak up the applause before he was racing (as best as he could while he recovers from hip surgery) to join his family in the stands. The front of Saks exploded with the light show, which was designed to look like a tree and flashed to a medley of his songs, including his dance-club hit, “Cold Heart (Pnau Remix)” with Dua Lipa. Then the windows came to life, including one that looked like a Lite Brite and another, in tribute to John, that had rockets going up and down on pistons.
There were fireworks! And then it was over. John walked across the street, posed for some pictures and went inside the store. The whole thing took 15 minutes, and ended with a police officers shouting at straggling photographers and guests to get out of the street already so a city bus could come through.
Elton John’s North American concerts may be done, but he has still got plenty of shows ahead of him. His farewell tour — two years behind schedule, after delays due to covid and his 2021 hip surgery — hits pause for a month before picking up in January for a string of dates in Australia and New Zealand, then the United Kingdom and Europe, before finally he finally hangs up his sparkly captain’s hat in Stockholm on July 3.
“I’ve made this video a couple of times,” Miley Cyrus joked in a video tribute to John that played during the Los Angeles farewell. Furnish knows that people are skeptical, so he wants to be totally clear. “Absolutely, he will never, ever tour again,” he said. “Those days are over and he’s pulled the curtain closed on that. He’s done.”
John will be 76 when this tour ends and, as much as he loves his fans and performing live, said Furnish, “He finds the travel really hard and he finds being away from his family incredibly hard. And, you know, our boys are going to be 10 and 12 and they are getting to the age where we feel they need us more than ever.”
They pair have been reflecting a lot more on what it means for them to be together, and to present themselves publicly as a loving unit, in the past few days, said Furnish. John did not mention it from the stage, but his final Dodgers show was the night after the shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs, when a gunman killed six people in a gay bar, the latest attack on the LGBTQ community. “It was deeply, deeply depressing and deeply distressing,” said Furnish.
“You know, on the one hand, Elton can bring his husband and his two sons onstage to an unbelievably warm response from everybody in the audience,” Furnish continued. “And it went out on live stream around the world. And in other parts of the world that would be considered promotion of homosexuality and homosexuality being a lifestyle rather than a completely natural and normal thing for people.”
The Colorado Springs shooting, he said, has made them both more committed to the mission of the AIDS Foundation’s Rocket Fund, which is to eliminate the stigma of AIDS that leads to people who “are frightened to get an AIDS test, frightened to pick up their medication, frightened to discuss or reveal their status openly for fear of recrimination based on their sexuality,” said Furnish. And it is why he leaves the door open to John performing charity events in the future.
Over the weekend in Los Angeles, John revisited his landmark 1975 shows when he was arguably the biggest pop star in the world. He also was an addict, and not openly gay, but had come out as bisexual. In 1984, he married a woman, Renate Blauel, divorcing her four years later. The first shows “were hard for me because I was not in a very good place, mentally and physically,” John said in a video that played before the show.
Now he is 32 years sober. He has been with Furnish for 29 years. When asked what he would miss about touring as part of the Disney special, he said, “Nothing. I’ve done it since I was 17 in the back of a van with my first band.”
He is excited for a new chapter, said Furnish. “Might he do the occasional one-off? Might he do something like a residency in a theater? Maybe, maybe not. He is not closing the door on performing completely.” Furnish mentioned Kate Bush’s 2014 run of 22 shows at a London theater as a potential blueprint, and said John was eager to dig into his catalogue and play lesser-known songs.
But the door is closed on one type of performance. “He is not doing a Vegas residency. That is off the table,” said Furnish. In the meantime, maybe he’ll just hang out with his kids and ride around in sparkly golf carts in front of Christmas lights for a while.
Elton John Lights Up NYC For The Holidays In Rare Appearance With His Kids
Following an onstage triumph in Los Angeles, Elton John made his way to New York City this week to usher in the Christmas season with a surprise performance.
The “Rocket Man” singer joined husband David Furnish and their sons — Zachary, 11, and Elijah, 9 — at Saks Fifth Avenue on Tuesday night to unveil the luxury retailer’s annual window and light display for the holidays.
John’s appearance had been kept under wraps from the hundreds of onlookers who lined the sidewalks in front of Saks for the fete.
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Police erected barricades shortly before 7 p.m. to stop traffic on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue ― no easy feat during the holiday shopping rush ― and to make way for a piano. Fittingly, John made a grand entrance minutes later in a blinged-out golf cart.
He then joined Furnish and their boys for a quick countdown as the windows and a dazzling light display were revealed on Saks Fifth Avenue’s facade.
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The five-time Grammy winner soon launched into a stripped-down version of his 1970 classic “Your Song.”
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For this year’s holiday decor, Saks worked closely with the Elton John AIDS Foundation’s Rocket Fund and donated $1 million to the organization.
Each of the windows contains subtle homages to John’s 50-plus years as a musician and cultural icon. One display, for example, is decked out in stylized rocket ships.
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John’s pre-Thanksgiving family outing — a rare public appearance with his sons — took place just days after he played at LA’s Dodger Stadium for the final U.S. date of his farewell tour. The concert, which was captured for posterity as a Disney+ special, featured guest performances by singers Brandi Carlile, Kiki Dee and Dua Lipa.
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He is set to return to the stage in January for shows in Australia and New Zealand before wrapping the tour’s final leg in Europe over the summer.
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle share message with Sir Elton John ahead of farewell concert
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle shared a personal message with Sir Elton John ahead of his farewell concert at the Dodgers Stadium last night.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were featured in a compilation video showing stars paying tribute to Sir Elton ahead of the gig, which aired live on Disney+.
In the clip, which appeared to have been filmed at the couple’s Archewell offices, Prince Harry said: ‘Thank you for being the friend that you were to my mum. Thank you for being our friend, thank you for being a friend to our kids.’
The couple have grown close with the singer in recent years, having known Harry his whole life through his ‘dear’ friendship with Princess Diana, and even lending the couple his French Riviera home and private jet in 2019.
Prince Harry, 38, and Meghan Markle, 41, shared a personal message with Sir Elton John ahead of his farewell concert at the Dodgers Stadium last night
The couple have grown close with the singer in recent years, having known Harry his whole life through his ‘dear’ friendship with Princess Diana
In the clip, Prince Harry was dressed in a relaxed blue suit and white shirt, while Meghan was wearing a dark brown top.
It appeared to have been filmed at their Archewell offices, and in the background a pair of double doors featuring their foundation’s logo could be seen.
The couple both said ‘Hi Elton’ before Meghan said: ‘We just wanted to say congratulations!
‘We are just so proud of you and so grateful that we were able to see you on your farewell tour also.’
In the clip, the couple paid tribute to the performer and thanked him for his ongoing friendship
Harry said: ‘Thank you for entertaining everybody for so many decades. Thank you for being the friend that you were to my mum.
‘Thank you for being our friend, thank you for being a friend to our kids and thank you for entertaining people right around the world.
‘Even though this is officially your retirement, this will not be your last gig and we know that.
‘We love you and congratulations on your incredible career.’
The clip finished with Meghan placing her head on to Harry’s chest and blowing a kiss to the camera.
Famed musician Sir Elton was good friends with Harry’s late mother Princess Diana and maintained a close relationship with the Duke after her death in 1997.
Famed musician Elton was good friends with Harry’s late mother Princess Diana and maintained a close relationship with the Duke after her death in 1997
Sir Elton and his husband David Furnish were also among the many celebrity guests invited to attend Harry and Meghan’s wedding in May 2018.
The Sussexes visited the £15million palatial home of Castel Mont-Alban owned by Sir Elton John and David overlooking the Promenade des Anglais during their holiday to the French Riviera in August 2019.
The trip to Nice came shortly after Harry and Meghan had returned by private jet to the UK from Ibiza after a six-night break on the Spanish island to mark the Duchess’s 38th birthday.
Elton later released a statement defending the couple, saying he had paid for the private jet.
Sir Elton and David were also among the many celebrity guests invited to attend Harry and Meghan’s wedding in May 2018
Described as a ‘rock’ to the royal rebels, Sir Elton defended the pair following the backlash over their use of four private jets in 11 days in 2019, calling Princess Diana one of his ‘dearest friends’ whose family he ‘felt a profound sense of obligation to protect.’
‘Elton speaks to Harry and Meghan every day. He’s an inspiration, an almost “motherly” figure,’ a royal insider told the Mirror in 2020.
‘He is a constant support, especially to Meghan, and is very protective of them both,’ they added.
While a source close to Sir Elton added: ‘He has been their rock. So while he would never tell them what to do, he has been a listening ear and support throughout.’
Filmmaker David, husband to musician Sir Elton, was due to serve as an executive producer on Meghan’s first animated series Pearl.
Sources previously said how Elton had become a ‘motherly’ figure to the couple (pictured at the Lion King premiere in July 2019)
While few details were released about the series, many believed the show was based – at least in part – on Meghan’s own childhood, citing how she named the show and its title character Pearl, the origin meaning of her name.
David praised Meghan for her leadership skills while making the programme.
‘She’s a fantastic collaborator, amazing leader,’ said filmmaker David Furnish, 58, at the HELLO! Inspiration Awards.
‘And we’re just very, very excited to be working with, you know, someone as influential and as supportive as Netflix.’
However, the project ended up being cancelled earlier this summer.
That won’t heal the rift! RFK’s daughter reveals Harry and Meghan will accept honor at NYC gala for their ‘heroic’ stance against ‘structural RACISM’ of royal family
Robert F. Kennedy’s daughter has revealed she’ll honor Prince Harry and Meghan for their ‘heroic’ stance against the ‘structural racism’ of the royal family at a NYC gala in her father’s honor.
Kerry Kennedy, one of RFK and Ethel Kennedy’s 11 children and the president of the foundation, says that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have challenged the royal family’s ‘power structure.’
She now plans to hand the couple a gong recognizing their achievements at the Ripple of Hope Gala in New York on December 6, with spots at their table going for up to $1million. The couple are expected to attend the event.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will also be handed an award.
Kennedy, the ex-wife of disgraced New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, told The Telegraph: ‘They went to the oldest institution in UK history and told them what they were doing wrong, that they couldn’t have structural racism within the institution; that they could not maintain a misunderstanding about mental health.’
She spoke about her late father’s visit to apartheid South Africa in 1966 and said that Harry and Meghan have the ‘moral courage’ that many people didn’t to discuss racial justice.
Kennedy said: ‘Few would have the courage to question their colleagues, family and community about the power structure they maintained, and this is what Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have done.’
Her remarks – and Harry and Meghan’s decision to accept the award – could drive a fresh wedge between the Sussexes and new King Charles.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are set to be honored by the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Foundation, with the former Secretary of State’s daughter praising them for their ‘heroic’ stance against the racism of the British monarchy
He acceded the throne in September after the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II. No decision has been made on whether to confer royal titles on the Sussexes’ children Archie and Lilibet until after an upcoming Netflix documentary and Harry’s autobiography Spare are released.
Harry and Meghan are also said to enjoy cool relations with Harry’s brother Prince William – now second in line to the throne – and his wife Kate Middleton. They saw their titles upgraded to Prince and Princess of Wales in the wake of the Queen’s death.
Both Harry and Meghan, who now live in a $14million Californian mansion with their children, are expected to attend. The award will also be given to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Kennedy added that the Sussexes ‘knew that if they did this there would be consequences… and that people would blame them for it. They have done it anyway because they believed they couldn’t live with themselves if they didn’t question this authority.’
‘I think they have been heroic in taking this step,’ she said, according to The Telegraph.
Kerry Kennedy, one of RFK and Ethel Kennedy’s 11 children and the president of the foundation, says that the Sussexes have challenged the royal family’s ‘power structure’
Kennedy said: ‘They went to the oldest institution in UK history and told them what they were doing wrong, that they couldn’t have structural racism within the institution; that they could not maintain a misunderstanding about mental health’
Harry and Meghan stunned the world by quitting the royal family in January 2020.
Last year, they gave an interview to Oprah Winfrey where Meghan claimed an unnamed member of the royal family had expressed concerns about their unborn baby’s skin tone while she was pregnant with firstborn, Archie.
Meghan is biracial; her mother Doria Ragland is black, while estranged dad Thomas Markle is white.
Previous winners of the award include Presidents Joe Biden, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, former presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Al Gore, Bono and Desmond Tutu.
Kerry Kennedy’s comments are in stark contrast to her brother, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who called the decision ‘bewildering.’
Kennedy is the ex-wife of disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo
Kennedy added that the Sussexes ‘knew that if they did this there would be consequences… and that people would blame them for it. They have done it anyway because they believed they couldn’t live with themselves if they didn’t question this authority’
Speaking to DailyMail.com exclusively on Monday, he said it was however ‘still an encouraging step up’ from Anthony Fauci, who won the award two years ago on behalf of his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
‘It’s a bewildering choice but still an encouraging step up from 2020,’ RFK Jr. said, referring to Fauci, about whom he has written a scathing book, and who he believes is a ‘fraud’.
Meghan and Harry were announced as the recipients of the Ripple of Hope Award in October.
RFK Jr. has no involvement in who receives the award, which is intended for ‘exemplary leaders across government, business, advocacy’, but was surprised by this year’s choice.
He and Kerry routinely spar publicly, especially over his vehement anti-vaccine stance.
RFK Human Rights did not respond to inquiries on Monday.
In her October announcement, Kerry said the couple had been chosen for their work on racial justice, mental health, and other social impact initiative’.
‘A bewildering choice’: JFK’s nephew, RFK Jr., tells DailyMail.com he is ‘baffled’ by his sisters’ decision to name Harry and Meghan as recipients of this year’s Ripple of Hope award
RFK Jr. has no involvement in who receives the award, which is intended for ‘exemplary leaders across government, business, advocacy’, but was surprised by this year’s choice
Tickets on the top table, where they will be sat, are being sold for up in packages worth up to $1million. The most expensive package – ‘the pioneer’ deal – buys four seats at the ‘head table’, two tables, VIP access and repeated recognition both on the program and at the event. The cheapest option is a one-plate ticket for a whopping $2,500
Kerry Kennedy announced Harry and Meghan as recipients of the award in October last year
RFK Jr. with wife Cheryl Hines, left, and his sister Kerry, who is in charge of the Ripple of Hope event
‘The couple has always stood out for their willingness to speak up and change the narrative on racial justice and mental health around the world.
‘They embody the type of moral courage that my father once called the “one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change.”‘
They will both attend the December 6 Ripple of Hope Gala in New York City. Tickets on the top table, where they will be sat, are being sold for up in packages worth up to $1million.
The most expensive package – ‘the pioneer’ deal – buys four seats at the ‘head table’, two tables, VIP access and repeated recognition both on the program and at the event.
The cheapest option is a one-plate ticket for a whopping $2,500.
Alec Baldwin will emcee the event and some of Hollywood’s elite – including Forest Whitaker, Alfre Woofard, Bradley Whitford and Kate Mulgrew – are all listed as special guests this year.
CNN favorites Van Jones and Don Lemon are also expected to attend.
British Professor David Nasaw called it ‘blatantly ludicrous’ that the couple should be honored.
Alec Baldwin will emcee the event again this year. He is shown last year in the same role
‘If you look at the people who have been awarded the Robert Kennedy prize in the past – Bill and Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi [Speaker of the US House of Representatives], Bishop Desmond Tutu – and then you have to ask what are Harry and Meghan doing here?
‘What in God’s name have they done to merit this? What percentage of Harry and Meghan’s wealth is going to worthy causes?’ he said on Good Morning Britain on Monday.
It’s unclear when they were first considered as laureates for this year’s award.
Rory Kennedy, Kerry’s sister, runs a film production company with Liz Garbus, the director behind Harry and Meghan’s Netflix docuseries, but she has not confirmed whether she had any role in deciding who should be honored.
Others have suggested a more straightforward motive – driving ticket sales.
With Harry and Meghan’s attendance comes a whirlwind of global attention which may boost sales and encourage donations.
They are due to be in America around the same time as the Prince and Princess of Wales, who will be honored at a separate event in Boston on December 2.
Couple Attacked After Elton John Concert In Dodger Stadium Parking Lot – Deadline
Elton John is saying farewell to touring and one of his last stops was at the Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. Although it was supposed to be a night of celebration, a couple was brutally attacked after one of John’s concerts.
A man was beaten unconscious on Thursday, Nov. 17 after a “fender bender,” Los Angeles Police Department Officer Mike Lopez told City News Service.
Although details around the incident are not clear, police are investigating the situation. A man and his wife were involved in an accident after the “Rocket Man” singer’s performance at the stadium. The couple exited their vehicle and things escalated into violence, Lopez said.
One woman struck another woman, and a man hit another man. Video in the immediate aftermath of the attack shows a man lying motionless on the ground, still being assaulted — possibly by multiple assailants — even as others attempt to stop and curtail the violence. The man’s wife is seen being pulled by the hair as she attempts to check on her husband.
“Everyone was gone when police got there,” Lopez said.
Officers caught up with the victims at a hospital, where they were being given medical treatment, and took a report alleging battery. The man suffered a concussion and a broken ankle, among other injuries, CBS2 reported.
The station reported that the man’s wife said she tried to revive him for about 45 minutes, believing he had died, before he finally regained consciousness.
TMZ posted a video capturing some of the violence and reported that the victims were both in their 60s.
A woman claiming to be the victims’ daughter — and a nurse — posted Friday on Instagram that her father remained hospitalized with fractures and head injuries but that both parents “were left unconscious on the ground.”
She claimed four men and two women attacked the couple and that neither bystanders nor security officers made any attempt to stop them and is now asking the public for help in identifying the alleged attackers.
City News Service contributed to this report.
Elton John Is Ready to ‘Go Out on a High’ With Final U.S. Tour Dates & A Pair of 2022 Top 10 Hot 100 Hits
Surrounded by newly designed Elton John tour merch mixed with luxury goods from Fendi and Balenciaga at a special Rocket Man-themed pop-up shop at The Webster in the Beverly Center, David Furnish — husband and business partner to the beloved pop star — joked that everyone thinks his house looks just like this Los Angeles shrine to Elton.
“We do have a Captain Fantastic pinball machine at our home in Windsor,” he conceded to Billboard, sitting in an alcove at The Webster with that very arcade game as “Philadelphia Freedom” played over the speakers. “But we don’t play Elton John music around the clock in our house.”
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For the last near-decade, Furnish has been helping Elton plan his retirement from the road, after 50-plus years of touring the world, and this pop-up shop is one of many special flourishes to send him off. “Elton said he wanted to go out on a high,” Furnish says.
So that’s the plan: He’ll end his U.S. tour dates with a trio of concerts at Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium, including Sunday’s final show being livestreamed by Disney+ and including special guests Dua Lipa, Kiki Dee and Brandi Carlile. And all along, R.J. Cutler will continue to film the Disney+ documentary Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, along with Furnish as producer under his and Elton’s Rocket Entertainment.
“L.A. has always had that professional resonance,” Furnish says of why Dodger Stadium is the last U.S. tour stop, 47 years after Elton was the first solo artist to play the ballpark. “You know, we have a home here. Our sons were born next-door [to The Webster] at Cedars-Sinai; they’re coming in next week to come and see the shows. We have our annual Oscar party here; we’ve raised $95 million for the Elton John AIDS Foundation with that event for over 25 years. And so LA is a very, very special place for us.”
Below, find highlights from Billboard‘s chat with Furnish, including why Elton is retiring now, his continued relevance on our charts, and how the couple hoped music would be a “great healer” for Elton’s latest duet partner, Britney Spears.
Why is Elton John retiring from touring now?
I think the most important thing, and the most significant thing for us, is what this means to our family. Because as long as I’ve known Elton, he’s been on the road, doing 90 to 100 shows annually. It’s a big commitment. Time, travel, rest between shows. And now we have two beautiful sons; they’re going to be 12 and 10. And we were able to take them with us in the early days. And now they have their own lives. And that’s really important that they continue to have their own lives, their own identity, to not have their life defined by their father’s career.
On Elton John’s love affair with the Billboard charts, including two top 10 Billboard Hot 100 hits this year: “Cold Heart” with Dua Lipa and “Hold Me Closer” with Britney Spears.
He gets your charts daily. He gets them printed out on hard copies. Because he goes through with highlighters. And he literally has different highlighters for different records he charts — ones from Britain, ones from America, the ones that are going up, ones that are his, ones that he has a connection to he. He watches it daily. It feeds a part of his soul. And he’s absolutely over the moon with the way these new records have performed. And you know, you’re gonna see more. Like, he’s not going to stop. And I’m excited for him and excited for what great music he can bring to the world. Our streaming numbers, to see that 58% of his music is now consumed by 18- to 35-year-olds — that is one of the things that I think of which he is most proud. That he’s written songs that survive, that stand the test of time, and that resonate with a whole new generation, that for him is is like, “Wow.”
Why Britney Spears was the perfect duet partner on “Hold Me Closer.”
During lockdown, we watched those documentaries that came out, and we weren’t aware of … we’d heard about the conservatorship, but we hadn’t understood the details and the practicality of it. It was really disturbing, like, “Oh my God, that poor girl, she’s just been in a prison for such a long time.” And as a recovering addict — both of us [David and Elton] are in recovery — we really understand the impact of trauma.
When I raised Britney [as a possible collaborator], [Elton] was like, “Oh, my God, she needs the hand to help take a step forward to get back onto the charts again.” And I think the outpouring that she got from her fans, you know, that it’s a great record, I know she’s genuinely chuffed to bits, as we say in England with the response that it’s had. And I hope and Elton hopes it gives her more courage and more of a sense to get back into the studio, because music is a great healer.
“Elton John Live: Farewell From Dodger Stadium” will livestream Sunday at 11 p.m. ET / 8 p.m. PT on Disney+.
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