{"id":82972,"date":"2023-07-11T11:24:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T11:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/07\/11\/elton-john-says-goodbye-to-touring\/"},"modified":"2023-07-11T11:24:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T11:24:13","slug":"elton-john-says-goodbye-to-touring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/07\/11\/elton-john-says-goodbye-to-touring\/","title":{"rendered":"Elton John Says Goodbye To Touring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Elton John\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Elton John performed what he says was the last show on the final tour of his career Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The iconic award-winning musician took the stage for purportedly the last time ever as a touring artiste in Stockholm, Sweden,\u00a0according to his website.<\/p>\n<p>In the caption for a video posted to\u00a0his official Instagram\u00a0Saturday, the British music legend wrote, \u201cWhat a journey this tour has been, and now we find ourselves at the end of it. Tonight is the final night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The video includes a clip from\u00a0a\u00a02018 interview with\u00a0<strong><em>CNN<\/em><\/strong>\u2019s Anderson Cooper in which the musician announced his retirement from touring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the last time that I will be touring and travelling the world,\u201d John says in the clip.<\/p>\n<p>The five-time Grammy winner\u2019s \u201cFarewell Yellow Brick Road Tour\u201d kicked off in 2018 and was originally meant to end in 2021 but\u00a0was postponed\u00a0due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The tour has been publicised as his last after more than five decades on the road.<\/p>\n<p>The tour featured more than 300 shows and was attended by more than 6 million fans across the world, according to John\u2019s Instagram video. The 76-year-old musician headlined\u00a0the Glastonbury Festival\u00a0as his final UK stop on his farewell tour.<\/p>\n<p>During his 2018 interview with Cooper, John attributed his retirement from life on the road to his decision to focus on his family. The musician has\u00a0two sons\u00a0with husband David Furnish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had children and had changed our lives and in 2015, we sat down with their school schedule and we said I\u2019m going to miss too much of this,\u201d he told Cooper at the time.<\/p>\n<p>He said at the time that although he was done touring, he would continue working on new music.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elton John\u00a0 \u00a0 Elton John performed what he says was the last show on the final tour of his career Saturday night. The iconic award-winning musician took the stage for purportedly the last time ever as a touring artiste in Stockholm, Sweden,\u00a0according to his website. 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