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Elton John's Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour coming to Pittsburgh in Oct.

By Kelcie Willis, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
By Kelcie Willis, Cox Media Group National Content Desk

Elton John has announced he is embarking on a farewell tour that will go through 2021.

The singer teased the news conference in which he made the announcement on his official website Wednesday.

The announcement, which aired simultaneously in New York and London, detailed the musician’s plans once he reaches the end of his six-year Las Vegas residency in May.

John opened the live broadcast by performing "Tiny Dancer" and "I'm Still Standing" by the piano.

Speaking with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, John said that his children with his husband, David Furnish, have changed his priorities and he will no longer be touring.

“My priorities now are my children and my husband and my family,” he said. “The time is right to say thank you to all my fans around the world globally.”

John will be beginning a 300-date world tour to say goodbye starting in September. It stops in Pittsburgh at PPG Paints Arena on Oct. 10

John said discussions about no longer touring began with his family in 2015.

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Earlier Wednesday, The Mirror reported that John, 70, would be announcing his retirement from music. The singer has been dogged by health issues in recent years. Most recently, he contracted a rare, deadly bacterial infection while touring South America in 2017. The illness landed him in intensive care and caused him to cancel his Las Vegas shows at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in April and May. The shows resumed in October.

John said that despite the report, his health is good. “It’ll be the best production I’ve ever done,” John said of his tour. “I want to go out with a big bang.”

Although he will bow out of touring in about three years, John plans to make new albums and write music indefinitely.

“I’ll be creative, hopefully, until the day I die,” he said.

John's Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour will start in Allentown, Pennsylvania. More information on tour dates can be found at EltonJohn.com.

 

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