Sir Elton John brings the curtain down on Glastonbury 2023 with his last-ever U.K. live show watfordfc
Dressed in a gold suit, wearing red tinted glasses and sat behind his black piano, the 76-year-old may have – intentionally or not – spent the entire evening giving a nod to his football club. Either way, there were plenty of Watford shirts and flags in the huge crowd at Worthy Farm.
That wasn’t lost on Sir Elton, who said: “I'd better play well and I'd better entertain you because you've been standing there so long.”He opened the show with Pinball Wizard from The Who’s rock opera, Tommy, which was on his 1974 album Caribou. It was a song that Sir Elton said in an interview just before his show that he hadn’t performed on stage for about a decade.
However, the superstar has always been a fan of supporting up and coming artists whose music he likes, and so three of the four acts that joined him fell into that category. The Killers' front man joined Sir Elton to sing Tiny Dancer, a song from Madman Across The Water that was released in 1972 but gained most of it’s acclaim in more recent times. On this occasion, it prompted a proposal in the crowd which was picked up by the BBC TV cameras.
The pair famously duetted on Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me, and so fittingly that was the song which came next with Sir Elton saying: “He was my friend, an inspiration, and today would have been his 60th birthday - I want to dedicate this song to his memory, and all the music he left us with which is so gorgeous."
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