Sir Elton John‘s Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour has landed in Liverpool as he gears up for his string of final UK dates.
The 75-year-old singer-songwriter with 10 UK number ones, including Don’t Go Breaking My Heart, also plays LondonBelfast and Glasgow during the coming months.
When Sir Elton took the stage at the 11,000 capacity M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool on Thursday, he was dressed in a glittering tailcoat as he heard Bennie And The Jets sing.
Before the concert, he told his Instagram followers: ‘I’m back baby! See you tonight, Liverpool!’
Sir Elton will also be playing in the city on Friday before heading to the Resorts World Arena in Birmingham on Sunday and the SSE Arena in Belfast on Friday 31 March.
He then lands in London for dates at the O2 Arena between April 2 and May 30, before ending his UK tour dates on June 18 at the OVO Hydro venue in Glasgow.
His North American leg of his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour was filled with fireworks, spectacular visuals and several guest appearances, including Dua Lipa.
In November 2022, the run of shows at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles came to an end.
Sir Elton, who reportedly collaborated with another music icon Dolly Parton for a brand new songsaid in December ‘there’s no better way to say goodbye to my British fans’ than playing his last UK show at Glastonbury.
The veteran pop superstar will top the bill on Sunday 25 June on the Pyramid Stage for his first appearance at the Worthy Farm festival in Somerset.
Despite decades in the business, the Cold Heart chart topper is still learning secrets about his own tracks.
It may be over 50 years since Rocket Man was released, but it’s been that long since Sir Elton’s longtime songwriting partner Bernie Taupin to reveal the true inspiration behind it.
“Rocket Man I think was our very first number one record,” the star recalled in an Instagram video with Bernie.
He added with a possibly intentional play on words, “It was a pretty easy song to write a melody on because it’s a song about space – so it’s a pretty spatial song.”
But while he composed the iconic melody, he didn’t know the full story behind the track, which became the title for his biopic starring Taron Egerton, in which Bernie revealed its true meaning to the iconic musician more than 50 years later.
He said, “It was actually a song inspired by Ray Bradbury, from his book of science fiction short stories The Illustrated Man.
“In that book, there was a story called The Rocket Man, which was about how astronauts would become sort of a run-of-the-mill job in the future. So I kind of took that idea and started working with it.’
Sir Elton, who has played the track at virtually every gig for the past 50 years, was horrified, writing in the accompanying caption, “You learn something new every day!”
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