But it all worked out, because then Putin actually did call when I was in the kitchen in my house in Windsor. It keeps me young, it keeps me interested.” I throw myself into everything 150 per cent. If it’s not music, it’s theatre or film, collecting photography, helping with the Aids Foundation. “I said to him once, 'What have you been doing?’ He said 'I’ve been playing golf.’ Christ! That’s a lot of f- golf!”.Įlton, by contrast, is a firm believer in keeping busy. “Lionel Richie didn’t make an album or play a show for 10 years,” he says, referring to Richie’s absence from the recording studio between 19. However, this does not mean he’s contemplating retirement. I want to die at home, and I want to spend a lot of time with my kids before I do.” I’ll always play but I don’t want to be schlepping around the world for it.”Įverything now is planned around the children. There will be no more touring after another two or three years. He recently presided over an 18-month cost-cutting regime that has seen the departure of staff who’ve been with Elton for decades, including lawyers, managers, hairdressers, valets and publicists.Īs one concession to age, he admits that he is planning to reduce his touring schedule. Furnish – a Canadian film-maker 16 years his junior whom he met in 1992 and married in 2014 – has been accused of taking over his life, assuming the role of CEO of his record label, Rocket Entertainment, and effectively becoming Elton’s manager. If recent, hostile press reports are to be believed, Elton’s domestic bliss has come at a price. It was so much fun.” Does he worry whether it’s going to be a hit or not? “Course it’s not!” he laughs. ![]() But you can still rock and roll at 70, if you’ve got the means and the will. “No one’s making this kind of record any more. Working from a sheaf of Taupin’s lyrics, songs were composed in the morning, rehearsed in the afternoon and recorded by evening. It is this upbeat attitude that Elton set out to capture on his new album, Wonderful Crazy Night, an up-tempo set of belters recorded with his live band in the same spirit as his Seventies classics, and due for release next week. He turned up in Paris once and he’d forgotten where he lived!” ![]() Anyway, I’m not as bad as Keith Richards. It’s nice to stay in your own place, and you just accumulate them. “I’ve too many homes, probably, but I love them,” he says. “With all our houses, we choose the art first,” he says, leading me into a circular alcove where his housekeeper serves us coffee in cups so elaborately designed it’s not clear how to pick them up.Įlton and David Furnish have five other residences: in Atlanta, London, Windsor, Nice and Venice. “That’s exactly what I wanted,” says Elton, laughing, “the LA Seventies rock star look.” The man himself has got this look down to a tee: he greets me like a cuddly, gap-toothed Elvis in stripy Adidas tracksuit, rimless purple sunglasses and that oddly dyed mop of transplanted hair. It looks like an art gallery designed by Austin Powers. Inside, paintings by Keith Haring and Andy Warhol hang above a zebra-skin rug and a bright pink coffee table groaning with orchids and objets d’art. The Beverly Hills home where Sir Elton John lives with his husband and their children is a sprawl of glass and gleaming surfaces. This interview first ran in April 2016, and has been republished to mark Elton John's imminent retirement
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