Elton John says goodbye to the stage in the last show of his career [FOTOS]

At age 76, Elton John officially said goodbye to the stage this Saturday (8) at the last show of the tour Farewell Yellow Brick Roadwhich took place at the Tele2 Arena, Sweden.

The tour, which began in 2018 and was interrupted by the pandemic and surgery in 2021, featured 330 performances across Europe, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom with an audience of 6.25 million people in total. .

On June 25th, Elton played its last show in the United Kingdom, at the Glastonbury festival (where it had never performed before) and, in May, its last performance in the United States, at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, transmitted live by disney+ and had the participation of Dua Lipa, Kiki Dee It is Brandi Carlile.

In front of 30,000 people, Elton John sat down at the piano after 8 pm (local time) and opened the performance with “Bennie and the Jets”. In sequence, “Philadelphia Freedom” It is “I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues”.

Over more than two hours, he interspersed songs with moments when he got up from the piano, looked at the audience and thanked the fans, as well as the musicians and the team, which included people who had been with him for over 40 years.

Before the encore, the singer shared a message from the band Coldplay (which performed the same night in Gothenburg), in which the vocalist Chris Martin thanked him for his career and his commitment.