2023-06-25 10:41:15
Elton John bids farewell to the British public on Sunday evening on the Glastonbury Festival stage in south-west England. This is the first time he has taken part in this mythical festival.
The 76-year-old star, who will end his world farewell tour in Stockholm on July 8, is expected at the end of this 51st edition by tens of thousands of festival-goers on the Pyramid Stage, the most important stage of the event.
Four surprise guests are announced. Speculation is rife. Among the names that circulate, Harry Styles, Billy Joel, Ed Sheeran or Britney Spears, or even Dua Lipa, who has already made an appearance at the last concert of Sir Elton in Los Angeles last year, alongside Brandi Carlile .
A different setlist
“This is the first time that I have been asked” to play at Glastonbury, revealed Elton John at the end of May. “It comes at the right time, I believe in fate and it’s the most magnificent way to finish in England.”
The show on Sunday promises to be different from what the public saw during the star’s tour, who deployed extravagant costumes and spectacular visual effects to accompany his titles “Tiny Dancer”, “Rocket Man” or “Your Song” . This concert “is very special”, said her husband David Furnish this week, with a different “setlist”.
Elton John, moved by a “healthy” nervousness before this show according to David Furnish, had already made it known that he would start with a song that he has not played for ten years. But if Elton John says goodbye to the scene, he plans to work on a new album in the fall.
Long farewell tour
The singer’s farewell tour, which has sold 300 million records worldwide, called “Farewell Yellow Brick Road” and initially scheduled to last three years, began in 2018 with more than 300 dates scheduled, including in Montreux (VD) in 2019 and in Bern last year. She has been disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, hip surgery in 2021 and testing positive for Covid-19 last year.
Before Elton John, Blondie, Yusuf / Cat Stevens, rapper Lil Nas X or Sophie Ellis-Bextor were expected on Sunday on the Pyramid Stage.
Omnipresent Dave Grohl
Sunday evening’s surprises are far from the only ones from this Glastonbury vintage. Friday, the Foo Fighters, for the first time in 25 years at the festival, tumbled for a surprise concert, where a mysterious group, the “Churnups”, was announced.
Foo Fighters frontman and former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl was also invited to join Guns N’Roses on stage – for their first appearance at the festival – for a revisited “Paradise City”, as well as the Pretenders.
Among the other headliners, Lana Del Rey encountered technical problems which led her to launch an a capella to the public, while the Arctic Monkeys, Lewis Capaldi – faced with voice problems -, Amadou & Mariam, or even Rick Astley and his unmissable “Never Gonna Give You Up” which made him a star in 1987.
More than 200,000 festival-goers
Glastonbury, a meeting created in 1970 and which became legendary twenty years later, closed its 2022 edition with Paul McCartney, who at the age of 80 had ignited the festival by performing Beatles classics. Soul legend Diana Ross was also in attendance.
Glastonbury welcomes more than 200,000 festival-goers who arrive with tents and backpacks. At the beginning of November, tickets sold out in just over an hour for the 2023 edition, despite a price approaching 400 euros.
This article has been published automatically. Sources: ats / afp
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