By way of AFP
STOCKHOLM: Surrounded via emotional lovers from all over the world, Elton John hailed them as his “lifeblood” as he gave his ultimate farewell live performance in Stockholm after greater than 50 years of are living performances.
“You understand how a lot I love to play are living. It is been my lifeblood to play for you guys, and you have been completely magnificent,” he instructed the thrilled target audience on the enviornment within the Swedish capital.
Dressed in a tailcoat accented with rhinestones and a pink pair of his trademark huge glasses, the 76-year-old pop celebrity sat down on the piano in a while after 8:00 pm to cheers to open his farewell display with certainly one of his most well liked songs, “Bennie and the Jets.”
He then endured with “Philadelphia Freedom” and “I Bet That is Why They Name It the Blues” to a rapt target audience, lots of whom had been dressed in glowing blue or pink glasses.
Taking part in for greater than two hours, John interspersed the songs with moments when he would stand up and go away the piano to thank no longer handiest his lovers but in addition his band and his workforce, a few of whom had been with him for greater than 40 years.
“I wish to pay tribute to those musicians… They are actually improbable, they have been with me see you later, a few of them. And they’re the most productive, I let you know, the most productive,” he stated.
In a while after a rendition of “Border Music” which he devoted to Aretha Franklin, John’s “I am Nonetheless Status” introduced the 30,000 lovers on the Tele2 Enviornment to their toes.
Prior to he took his encore, John screened a message from Coldplay, who had been enjoying within the western Swedish town of Gothenburg, during which singer Chris Martin thanked him for his profession and dedication.
‘Superb display’
“It was once superb. I don’t have any phrases at this time as a result of I have not processed the entire display, but it surely was once superb,” stated Anton Pohjonen, a 25-year-old financial institution employee from Finland.
“You virtually get started tearing up on his account. However then it feels nice to be right here,” added Swedish instructor Conny Johansson, who purchased tickets for the display 4 years in the past.
Excited lovers had been having a look ahead to an emotional finish to the celebrity’s glittering are living profession even ahead of the curtain went up.
“It will be very emotional this night,” stated Kate Bugaj, 25, a Polish scholar who admitted she had not on time her Grasp’s checks to apply her musical hero’s excursion.
Describing herself as a “massive fan”, she stated all of it started the primary time she watched “The Lion King”, the 1994 Walt Disney movie which gave John certainly one of his two Oscar tune wins.
Fifty-year-old Jeanie Kincer travelled from Kentucky in america for the display.
“I sought after to be right here for the tip as a result of I used to be too younger to be right here to start with,” she stated.
To mark the instance, she was once wearing pink shorts with braces and a pink, yellow and brown T-shirt — virtually the very same outfit John wore for his first live performance in Stockholm in 1971.
Sweden’s day-to-day Expressen known as the overall display “the most important bankruptcy within the historical past of rock ‘n’ roll which is ready to finish”.
The big name has been winding down his decades-long are living profession with an international farewell excursion.
He performed his ultimate concert events in america in Might and taken the curtain down on Britain’s annual Glastonbury Pageant ultimate month.
Saturday’s farewell live performance was once the second one consecutive night time the Stockholm stadium hosted the mythical British singer-songwriter for the ultimate leg of his ultimate excursion, which started 5 years in the past and was once disrupted via the Covid-19 pandemic and a hip operation in 2021.
On his “Farewell Yellow Brick Street” excursion, John can have given 330 concert events, crisscrossing Europe, Australia, New Zealand, america, Canada and Britain, ahead of ultimate in Stockholm.
Total, the excursion has observed him carry out in entrance of 6.25 million lovers.
STOCKHOLM: Surrounded via emotional lovers from all over the world, Elton John hailed them as his “lifeblood” as he gave his ultimate farewell live performance in Stockholm after greater than 50 years of are living performances.
“You understand how a lot I love to play are living. It is been my lifeblood to play for you guys, and you have been completely magnificent,” he instructed the thrilled target audience on the enviornment within the Swedish capital.
Dressed in a tailcoat accented with rhinestones and a pink pair of his trademark huge glasses, the 76-year-old pop celebrity sat down on the piano in a while after 8:00 pm to cheers to open his farewell display with certainly one of his most well liked songs, “Bennie and the Jets.”googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
He then endured with “Philadelphia Freedom” and “I Bet That is Why They Name It the Blues” to a rapt target audience, lots of whom had been dressed in glowing blue or pink glasses.
Taking part in for greater than two hours, John interspersed the songs with moments when he would stand up and go away the piano to thank no longer handiest his lovers but in addition his band and his workforce, a few of whom had been with him for greater than 40 years.
“I wish to pay tribute to those musicians… They are actually improbable, they have been with me see you later, a few of them. And they’re the most productive, I let you know, the most productive,” he stated.
In a while after a rendition of “Border Music” which he devoted to Aretha Franklin, John’s “I am Nonetheless Status” introduced the 30,000 lovers on the Tele2 Enviornment to their toes.
Prior to he took his encore, John screened a message from Coldplay, who had been enjoying within the western Swedish town of Gothenburg, during which singer Chris Martin thanked him for his profession and dedication.
‘Superb display’
“It was once superb. I don’t have any phrases at this time as a result of I have not processed the entire display, but it surely was once superb,” stated Anton Pohjonen, a 25-year-old financial institution employee from Finland.
“You virtually get started tearing up on his account. However then it feels nice to be right here,” added Swedish instructor Conny Johansson, who purchased tickets for the display 4 years in the past.
Excited lovers had been having a look ahead to an emotional finish to the celebrity’s glittering are living profession even ahead of the curtain went up.
“It will be very emotional this night,” stated Kate Bugaj, 25, a Polish scholar who admitted she had not on time her Grasp’s checks to apply her musical hero’s excursion.
Describing herself as a “massive fan”, she stated all of it started the primary time she watched “The Lion King”, the 1994 Walt Disney movie which gave John certainly one of his two Oscar tune wins.
Fifty-year-old Jeanie Kincer travelled from Kentucky in america for the display.
“I sought after to be right here for the tip as a result of I used to be too younger to be right here to start with,” she stated.
To mark the instance, she was once wearing pink shorts with braces and a pink, yellow and brown T-shirt — virtually the very same outfit John wore for his first live performance in Stockholm in 1971.
Sweden’s day-to-day Expressen known as the overall display “the most important bankruptcy within the historical past of rock ‘n’ roll which is ready to finish”.
The big name has been winding down his decades-long are living profession with an international farewell excursion.
He performed his ultimate concert events in america in Might and taken the curtain down on Britain’s annual Glastonbury Pageant ultimate month.
Saturday’s farewell live performance was once the second one consecutive night time the Stockholm stadium hosted the mythical British singer-songwriter for the ultimate leg of his ultimate excursion, which started 5 years in the past and was once disrupted via the Covid-19 pandemic and a hip operation in 2021.
On his “Farewell Yellow Brick Street” excursion, John can have given 330 concert events, crisscrossing Europe, Australia, New Zealand, america, Canada and Britain, ahead of ultimate in Stockholm.
Total, the excursion has observed him carry out in entrance of 6.25 million lovers.