Elton John was set to shut out Britain’s legendary Glastonbury Festival on Sunday, bringing down the curtain on the annual spectacular with what has been billed as his closing UK efficiency.
The 76-year-old pop famous person is winding down a glittering reside profession with a worldwide farewell tour, having performed his final concert events within the United States in May forward of a closing gig in Stockholm on July 8.
The singer-songwriter has stated he “couldn’t be more excited” to make his debut at Glastonbury, Britain’s best-known music competition hosted on a farm in southwest England for 5 a long time.
He will take to the primary Pyramid Stage on Sunday night time, with followers eagerly awaiting the identification of 4 “collaborators” set to hitch him who’ve but to be introduced.
“Elton’s a legend,” PhD pupil Giles Briscoe, 26, instructed AFP as he headed to the stage hours forward of that, carrying a reproduction of the long-lasting baseball outfit John wore at his well-known 1975 concert events at Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles.
“The fact that he’s going to perform on such a big stage, at such a historic moment of his career, is such a big event.”
Theatre producer Ben Monk, 30, had been staking out a spot in entrance of the stage since early morning, calling it a “very special day in Glastonbury history”.
“Why would we miss it?” he instructed AFP.
ECLECTIC ETHOS
John’s husband David Furnish revealed that the 4 totally different company will characteristic on stage, promising the present would differ from the worldwide icon’s units on his marathon Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour over latest years.
“This one is very special. It is not just another day in the office,” Furnish instructed Sky News.
He additionally revealed John won’t cease making music after the tour ends subsequent month, and can begin work on a brand new studio album later this yr.
John’s UK swansong caps days of big-name performances in entrance of greater than 200,000 followers at Glastonbury, together with veteran US rockers Guns N’Roses making their debut on the long-running competition within the coveted Saturday night time headline slot.
They rocked by way of their intensive catalogue throughout a two-hour-plus set enjoying hit tracks together with “Knockin On Heaven’s Door”, “Sweet Child O Mine” and “November Rain”.
Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, whose band performed a so-called secret slot Friday, joined them onstage to assist play a particular rendition of “Paradise City”.
Other acts enjoying this yr included UK indie giants Arctic Monkeys, singer Lizzo, rapper Lil Nas X, post-punk icon Blondie and “rickroller” Rick Astley, highlighting Glastonbury’s eclectic ethos.
NO MUD
Dairy farmer Michael Eavis first organised the competition in 1970, the day after Jimi Hendrix died, and followers who got here to see acts together with Marc Bolan and Al Stewart paid £1 every for entry and acquired free milk from the farm.
It was held intermittently within the Seventies and it wasn’t till the Nineteen Nineties that it actually started to accumulate its present cult standing.
While ready to attract the largest performers from each style and era, it’s equally identified for internet hosting hundreds of small acts and leftfield occasions throughout the massive Worthy Farm web site, in addition to for sometimes wet and muddy circumstances.
That has not proved an issue this yr, with Britain within the midst of a protracted dry interval leaving a lot of the nation scorched.
More than 100,000 customary tickets for this yr’s competition offered out in simply over an hour, regardless of the value rising to £335 ($427) this yr.
Fans dragging tents, rucksacks and booze started flocking to the location Tuesday, forward of gates opening the next day and the reside music kicking off on Friday.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
