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quinta-feira, 17 de fevereiro de 2011

Interview: Elton John Talks Gnomeo and Juliet and His Long Career





Elton John on the cover of Pop magazine!


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16 02 2011




Interview: Elton John Talks Gnomeo and Juliet and His Long Career

http://www.film.com/features/story/interview-elton-john-talks-gnomeo/44339343

Plus playing live, the message of the film, and gardening!
Executive Producer Elton John arrives at the "Gnomeo And Juliet" Los Angeles Premiere at El Capitan Theatre on January 23, 2011
Executive Producer Elton John arrives at the "Gnomeo And Juliet" Los Angeles Premiere at El Capitan Theatre on January 23, 2011 - WireImage
Cole Haddon I've interviewed maybe four or five people in my life who, by their sheer presence, by their proximity to my physical body, left me nervous and awed. Elton John ranks amongst this number. Currently, the pop culture icon is out promoting the animated feature Gnomeo and Juliet, which he executive produced. He also allowed the movie to draw heavily from his extensive back catalogue of songs for its musical numbers. Because of this, you can now watch animated garden gnomes sing "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" or "Bennie and the Jets." Despite how surreal that sounds, the movie has a surplus of charm and, unlike its source material, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, a finale worth dancing to.
Cole Haddon: You've got an immense musical oeuvre. When you agree to have your songs used in an animated musical, how do you go about deciding what to use and what not to use?
Elton John: Well, originally, it wasn't going to be all my music. But when Dick Cook at Disney Studios really got a hold of this project and suggested that we wrote new songs for it, and it should be a whole Elton John, back catalogue thing, I thought it was maybe a good idea. I'd never done that before. I enlisted the help of James Newton Howard, who is the arranger [on Gnomeo and Juliet], and a very famous arranger in this town, who actually used to be in my band. So I had a great relationship with him.
Elton JohnThere was one obvious song that would fit in the movie, which was "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" for the lawn mower race. That wasn't my idea; that was already someone -- I think maybe [the director's] idea. From that point on, I really just handed it over to [Howard] and the rest of the team to put it in. I didn't really take an active part saying, 'This should go there.' I didn't, for example, choose "Bennie and the Jets" to go in the scene when Benny is on the computer ordering the Terraferminator [a terrifying riding lawn mower]. But obviously it worked, so you didn't have to be a magician to think that might work there. But on the whole, it's nice to see the music [used]. I think [Howard] has done such a great job because even though it's all out of back catalogue, [along with] a couple of new songs, it doesn't feel as if it's overbearing and it's an 'Elton John movie.' It feels like Gnomeo and Juliet with some good music in it, and I'm glad it's turned out like that because I didn't want it to be just bang, bang, bang, old catalogue stuff. So that's the way it happened, really.
CH: You broke into the world of animated features with The Lion King. How was this experience different and what, if anything, did it add to your appreciation of the medium?
The Lion KingEJ: Well, with The Lion King, it came my way in 1993 thanks to Tim Rice. I've always collaborated in my career as a songwriter and I loved the idea and the journey of collaboration with everyone on [that project]. I'm a team player, really, that's why I like doing the musicals. I've always had a songwriting partner, and I think what you learn most of all is to leave your ego at the door. I mean, for example, [the] Billy Elliot [musical, which I wrote the songbook for]: We left three songs which were really great songs out of Billy Elliot, but it would have made the show four hours and two minutes long. That can't happen. You have to be prepared to say, 'OK, I'm going to fight for this song, but if you really want to get rid of it, then that's fine.' You've got to do that, and you've got to listen to the team as a whole. There have been so many times where we've convened during the 11 years [it took to make Gnomeo and Juliet], and the film has taken a different course or whatever. You have to be a team player; you have to hold hands when the things are going badly and hold hands when things are going well. You just have to be patient and you have to watch things, how they evolve, and you have to be there for the good of the thing as a whole and not just for you as a component of the piece.
CH: The garden gnomes in this movie fall into two camps, much like in Romeo and Juliet. The Montagues and the Capulets, except here they're differentiated less by name and more by color -- blue and red. Was that intentional, to draw a parallel to the division found in the States today?
EJ: [We started this process] 11 years ago, and if we'd have had the foresight to do that, I'd say we're f@%*ing geniuses. But it just happens to be at this time, it's coming out three weeks after the president made the speech in Tucson last week, which was a very poignant moment in the history of America after this tragedy happened. I do feel as though there is a message in this film, like we spend so much time hating each other because our parents tell us that that's what we have to do. I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative. When I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately. So we tend, as children, to ape our parents, and I think this is a storyline saying that we should all get on, even if we don't -- if we're Catholic and we're Protestant or we're Muslim and we're Jews. If we're Protestants and Catholics, if we're Democrats or Republicans. I think in America, though, it's gotten so far outstretched now, where the rhetoric is so dangerous, and it puts things in people's minds. It's so unnecessary.
Gnomeo and JulietIf there is any message that can come out of this film, which is purely coincidental and the time is coincidental, then I'm all for it because I'm -- as I grow older, it saddens me to see a country that I love so much having such a gulf between the people sometimes that they don't meet in the middle and talk and put their differences aside. I played a Proposition 8 concert the other night, and the two great lawyers who are fighting for this same-sex relationship recognition in California, one is a staunch Republican and one is a staunch Democrat. And yet they met and they both think this is the right thing to do. That is what life is all about. It's not about hatred, and I think in the film, at the end of this, when they've destroyed both of the gardens, they actually say, 'Enough. This is ridiculous. Let's just get on with our life. Let's be friends.' And I think that sends out a positive message, but it truly is coincidental.
CH: You're going back on tour this year. Curious, does it feel any different for you to be on stage today at this point in your career? Does it feel different compared to 20, 30, maybe 10 years ago?
EJ: I think it's so much more comfortable for me now. I mean, I've always enjoyed and loved playing live. I relish and cherish it more than anything else because you never know what the performance is going to be. If you go on stage, some nights you do a performance and you're feeling great. Sometimes you're not as great as you think you're feeling. Some nights you're feeling tired and you give a really great performance. It's the unknown. You don't know, being a performer, what kind of a performance you're going to give. You know you can give a certain quality of a performance, but as I grow older, I'm much more content in my own skin because when I come off stage now, I have a balance in my life. Until I found that in 1990, I didn't. I came off stage and I didn't know what to do with myself. Now, I fly home every night after a show. I get back in my own bed, and I have a wonderful partner. I have wonderful friends. I can remember things. I don't try drugs anymore. [Laughs] It's a whole new world out there. [Laughs again] I can remember the words to the songs. It's great. It's just sensational, what's happened to me in the last few years.
CH: You've pretty much achieved everything an artist can in music, movies, and on the stage. Is there anything left you'd like to conquer? Any dreams left for you?
EJ: Well, there's always things you want to do. I mean, obviously ballet is not an option. Not really. [Laughs] I'd just like to make a really great film about my life story, and we're thinking about that. We have a great script already by Lee Hall who wrote [the movie] Billy Elliot. Obviously it's not going to be your normal run-of-the-mill film because my life has been kind of crazy, and I think it's important to do a kind of surrealistic look or take on my life. I'd love to do that. This business is so incredible. In 1993, I got a phone call from Tim Rice saying would I do The Lion King, when at that time all I was doing was making records, touring, and doing videos. It gave me the opportunity, with that one phone call, to suddenly write musicals for the stage, film scores, and it just opened the doors to so many things. I don't know what's around the corner, and that's kind of the way I like it. You really can't plan. My career has not been planned -- oh, in three years we're going to do this. It just happens by accident. So I don't really have any more ambitions other than I just want to work and do excellent stuff and enjoy it. I'm enjoying everything in my life. But I think the element of surprise in this business is what makes us really love it because one day you're sitting by the phone waiting to do something or not doing anything, and the next day you've got the chance of a lifetime. So those little phone calls don't come up so often, but when they come up, it's fantastic. An example of that is, for example, in 1990, if you'd have said that in 1993 I'd be writing a song about a f@%*ing warthog, I'd have said, 'You're out of your mind.' When Tim Rice gave me lyrics that said, 'When I was a young warthog,' I actually thought I was losing my mind, and look what happened. If you'd have said in 1990, 'You're going to make a film about garden gnomes,' I'd have said, 'You're crazy.' So this is the joyous thing about being a creative person; things can come along that completely surprise you that you normally would never have thought of doing.
CH: Unexpected opportunities might explain a varied career, but how do you explain the eclecticism you've been able to embrace and display during the expanse of that career? What accounts for that?
EJ: The fact that I think when I grew up as a kid, I grew up in a house that listened to radio, bought records. My family always bought records, and I grew up in the early '50s. It was either classical music or dance band music or great vocalists like Frank Sinatra. I mean, I got Songs for Swinging Lovers for my birthday when I was about 8 years old, I think. Of course, when rock and roll came, I had all this knowledge of great American singers and band leaders and musicians and jazz players by the time I was 6 or 7. Then rock and roll came in and changed my life and changed the whole music scene forever. Then I grew to love R&B and Motown and all black music, gospel music. I never dismiss any form of music. I listen to everything. I'm on the new Kanye West record, for example. It's a genius record, and I was on the Alice in Chains record. So you can't really get -- Alice in Chains, Kanye West. I love all different sorts of music. When you've got people who mock rap and say, 'I don't like it,' they should go and check out Kanye in the studio rapping, or Marshall, Eminem, when he's in the studio. It's phenomenal. It's kind of like modern jazz was when John Coltrane, all those people started. It was like -- it's a different thing. Don't knock it until you've seen it. It may not be your cup of tea, but don't ridicule it. And I find that so many of my peers of my age don't listen to anything new. I love the new. I love the energy of the new, the energy of the new act. Because their energy is so infectious that at our age -- I had great energy between 23 and 28, where you're working on adrenaline, and it's just driving you. That energy is just pure adrenaline. Then after that, you lose it a little bit, but you still have enthusiasm and energy. But it's not the adrenaline that the young have. I just think it's so important to listen. The young are so important. The young give you the energy. And if you don't notice the young and you don't take that and you don't give them credit and you don't listen to all sorts of music, then you're missing out on something.
CH: Last question. So ... any chance you garden? Don't suppose you have any garden gnomes of your own?
EJ: I grew up at my grandmother's house, and it was a beautiful garden. But I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. I loathed them, and I loathe gardening, but I love gardens and I have two beautiful gardens.




Elton John nos anos 70 

 http://eltonjohnspics.blogspot.com/2011/02/elton-john-nos-anos-70.html



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ELTON JOHN SARTORIAL ELOUQUENCE

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COLD AS CHRISTMAS
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I´M STILL STANDING
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ELTON JOHN MILLIE JACKSON ACT OF WAR IN MONTREUX FESTUVAL 1985
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Elton John wants ‘old-fashioned childhood’ for his son

Elton John Show Off Zachary At Gnomeo Premiere: Photos


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TO the premiere of Gnomeo and Julie (it is as it sounds – gnome meets lover; gnome losers lover; gnome impales himself on fishing rod barb). The film is produced by news dads Elton John and David Furnish, they of the censored sperm shake. This might well be the future for Elton.
New celebrity mums and dads are fond of turning their soft hands to the creative arts and bringing us ranges of clothing and books so that we plebs can dress our sprogs like better looking and more talented babies. We can read our kidzzz the same stories, perhaps while impersonating the famous writer and thus increase the chance, however miniscule, that our child will not grow up to resent our inability to get them record deal and a modelling contract with Chanel.
Liz Hurley was also there, naturally. She was with her son Daimen. Will he grow up to be the anti-celeb? Let’s see…
PS – look ut for Alex James’s teeth which seem to be made of his beloved cheese, and Boy George doing a Benny Hill.
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(l-r) Matt Lucas, Ashley Jensen, Stephen Merchant, Sir Elton John and Emily Blunt arriving for the premiere of Gnomeo and Juliet at the Odeon Leicester Square, London.

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The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Plays Hits Of Elton John. The Ballads (1991)

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Elton John wants ‘old-fashioned childhood’ for his son

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/article/940524--elton-john-wants-old-fashioned-childhood-for-his-son

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'Rocket Man' singer Elton John and his husband David Furnish became parents to baby Zachary Jackson Levon through a surrogate mother on Christmas Day but despite their wealth, John is determined the tot will remain grounded.
John says: "I so value my own childhood now, and the sense of wonder and personal discovery that I enjoyed, that we want to give Zachary, as much as we possibly can, the same thing. A solid old-fashioned childhood, if you like.”
"I know it'll be hard with my life, but we want him to have that same normality and for things in life to have real value. So we don't intend to spoil him, we're going to try to give him a fun, carefree time of innocence, freedom, love and stability."
Although he has a huge personal fortune, John, 63, says he fears for today's children because they live in such a materialistic world and don't appreciate things.
He told Saga magazine: "I don't know if kids get that sort of enjoyment out of things anymore. I don't think you can do because your parents worked so hard when money was scarce to buy you a bicycle or your first record player.
"I don't want to become Britain's crustiest old man but I don't think you can possibly have the pleasure now of growing up like we did. A trip to the cinema was a treat, a trip up to London was unbelievably exciting. A trip anywhere."




Unforgettable People (VI): Renate Blauel

http://eltonjohnallsongslist.blogspot.com/2008/01/unforgettable-people-iv-renate-blauel.html

Elton in 1983 met a girl named Renate in AIR’s London Studios, she was working as tape operator. People around Elton had little notice about she at the beginning, as Philip Norman described in his book, until the “Breaking hearts” sessions when Elton suddenly said “I’m not going unless Renate goes out there too”. In the next tour for Australia and New Zeland the same mystifying ultimate was done: "None without Renate". And finally, Elton declared to bassist Dee Murray: “Guess what man, I am engaged!”. As Norman explained, german Renate emigrated to London at 22, as an act of rebellion against her parents, and in a male-dominating world of recording studios, she had done remarkably well.

The media commented “Elton John who has admitted to being bisexual, is to marry next week”. Their family and closest associates had already heard Elton’s big new on the phone from Sidney. Far from the general astonishment, Bernie, one of the best men along with John Reid, said “I always knew that if Elton suddenly got a bee in his bonnet about wanting a family, it was likely to happen pretty suddenly”. Elton’s mother, Sheila, appeared enthusiastic but Ivy, Elton’s grandmother was thrilled: “I had to take a tablet to calm myself down”. For Renate, Elton was “wonderful, he makes me laugh and he’s very considerate, I am feeling just fabulous”.


The marriage was on 14 February, St. Valentine’s Day, in an Anglican church in the Sydney suburb of Darling Point, and it was a traditional white wedding. A hundred of wedding guests were specially flown from Britain and America.

The end of the love story was officially on 18 November, 1988, by a “divorce of mutual consent and with no fault attaching to either party”. “Elton’s marriage flickered and went out like a candle in the wind” was Today’s headline.

Since their divorce, with Elton admitting that he was gay, Renate and Elton had little contact. Renate, who received a large sum of money, has kept details of their relationship private and she lives now in a small cottage from a village from Surrey, UK.

One article, headlined "Sad, lonely life of the woman who loved and lost Elton John" and published in June 2000 By GERARD COUZENS on Sunday Mirror, compared “Ms Blauel's current lifestyle with her experiences with her former husband”, and was accompanied by photographs of Renate in a gas petrol station forecourt. The article started with “EX-WIFE RENATE STILL SHUNS SPOTLIGHT AFTER 14 YEARS IN HER RURAL (…) No-one would guess the auburn-haired woman out on a rare shopping trip was once married to Britain's most outrageous rock star”. The article said that “Neighbours in the village know little about her”. Maxine, one local who has got to know her, explained: "She's a lovely lady but a very private person who just wants to be left alone to get on with her life." Another added: "We don't mention Elton's name because we know it still upsets her. The warmth she's found in the village has helped her get back on her feet".

The parting has been described amicable, thought Elton has ackowledged that he deeply hurt Renate. For the articulist, "there's no doubt her failed marriage to Elton is behind the rather reclusive life she leads now. She sincerely believed their marriage was for life."

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Twice.
After Elton John publicly discussed his concern for friend and tour mate Billy Joel (and John held nothing back, calling Joel’s rehab attempts “rehab lite” and hashing through the various things his addictions might be causing such as tour cancellations, illnesses, and lack of song writing) Joel released a statement letting the world know he’s not as upset with John as everyone suspected he would be.
In fact, he’s simply chalking up John’s comments up…well, normal Elton John behavior.
I’ve enjoyed our relationship too much to let something as random as these comments change my affection for him. Elton is just being Elton.
However, Elton isn’t buying it.

Last week, John appeared on The Today Show and talked with Matt Lauer about his the Rolling Stone interview – and his “tough love” for friend and tour mate Billy Joel – claiming despite Joel’s public attitude toward the situation isn’t an accurate representation of what’s really going on:
He hates me at the moment. He sent me a message and he’s not happy. He may want to punch my face. I understand that. I’m sorry I had to say it, but I’m saying it because I really want Billy to live a long life and be very happy. That’s all it came from. I understand why he’s mad at me. I’m only trying to help. Maybe I should have done it privately, but I’ve been so frustrated over the years.
Joel’s response to that? Just as succinct (if not more so – I love lists!) as the first:
1. I do not hate Elton John
2. I do not want to “punch him in the face”
3. If he wants to call me, my number is still the same.
4. Good luck with the movie.
BILLY JOEL
Regardless of which star’s story is the true story (and, in reality, there’s probably a little truth and a little stretching-of-the-truth in each one), let’s hope Billy Joel goes on to find a treatment program that works for him.
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Wednesday - February 16th, 2011 Elton John sent an assistant down to one of Beverly Hill's finer shops to return a some garments.
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Elton John: 'I have a gnome of my own'

Elton John, now a proud father, has been juggling bedtime story-telling with work on a new film.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/8296803/Elton-John-and-son-I-have-a-gnome-of-my-own.html
By John Hiscock 6:23PM GMT 01 Feb 2011 12 Comments
Elton John is beaming with bonhomie and has the look of a proud new father about to hand round the cigars as he enters the Beverly Hills hotel suite with his companion David Furnish.
They have both been busy, he says, working on a new musical project that is intended solely for the ears of their son Zachary.
“We’ve been putting music on his iPod and he now has Chopin, Mozart, Carole King, the Carpenters, James Taylor, me, Linda Ronstadt and even Led Zeppelin lullabies,” laughs the flamboyant singer-composer.
Zachary was born in Los Angeles on Christmas Day to a surrogate mother. Both Elton John and Furnish, who were married in England in 2005, contributed equally to the conception, as it were, although Elton is listed on the birth certificate as the father and David as the mother.
“I’ve had the most amazing things happen to me in my personal life and career, but this is the icing on the cake,” says 63-year-old Elton, conservatively dressed in a dark navy suit and crew-necked shirt. “It’s been the most blissful few weeks of all time.
“A lot of people have said I’m a little old, but I’m 60 going on 40. I’m young at heart, I work hard, and I do more shows now than I ever did before. I’ll play football and tennis with him and I’m still an active kind of guy. But David is 15 years younger than me so I may leave some of the physical exercise to him. I have 10 godchildren whom I spend a lot of time with every summer, so it’s not as if I haven’t been around children. I think I’ll do all right.”
Although Zachary already has his own iPod, his dad, surprisingly, does not. “I’m a Luddite,” he acknowledges with a grin. “I don’t have a phone, I don’t have a computer, I don’t have an iPad and I don’t have an iPod. But this is going to be a problem for me because they’re coming out with a Skype iPad in April and I’ve got to get one because I want to see my son when I’m not there – I’ll have to enter the world of technology.”
He knows enough, however, to be the executive producer of a new animated film, Gnomeo and Juliet, with which he has been involved for the past 11 years and which has been produced by his production company, Rocket Pictures.
The comedy takes Shakespeare’s tragic tale of two teenage lovers and retells it – with garden gnomes and a happy ending. Set in Stratford-upon-Avon, the film highlights the rivalry between neighbours Mr Capulet and Miss Montague, who have taken their zeal for gardening to new heights. Gnomeo is an expert gardener while Juliet is a beautiful gnome on a pedestal, kept there by her stern father, Lord Redbrick.
A cast of stars, including Michael Caine, James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Matt Lucas, Maggie Smith, Ashley Jensen, Ozzy Osbourne, Patrick Stewart and Dolly Parton, provide the voices, while the soundtrack features new songs from Elton and Bernie Taupin as well as classics such as Crocodile Rock, Saturday Night’s Alright (for Fighting), Don’t Go Breaking My Heart and Your Song.
The multi-Oscar nominated composer James Newton Howard, who used to be in Elton’s backing band, created the score, which also incorporates iconic John-Taupin melodies including Tiny Dancer, Rocket Man and Bennie and the Jets among others.
“Romeo and Juliet is one of the greatest love stories of all time and we thought it would be a really good idea to do it with garden gnomes,” says Elton. “It’s quite colloquial and British and very funny.
“I never ever envisaged doing a film about gnomes, but one of the funniest things in my life was when Tim Rice gave me a lyric for The Lion King and it started off ‘When I was a young warthog’. I thought, ‘Oh my God, what am I doing? I’m writing songs about warthogs.’ But gnomes, of course, are very popular in Europe and they’re gaining popularity in America. They’re funny characters and they’re great.
“I hope I’ve always had the capacity not to take myself too seriously and I think being able to send yourself up in visual ways as well as verbal ways is great. That’s why I do things like Gnomeo and why I’m going to do Saturday Night Live.
“Artists should never take themselves too seriously. We’re blessed to be who we are. We’re not more important than anybody else, and if you can’t take a joke, then you’re a sad person.”
Elton has another animated project, a musical version of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, in the works and is also involved in a film that is being planned about his life.
No decision has yet been made as to who will portray him. “It will have to be someone who can change weight quite quickly because I was very thin when I was young,” he laughs. “It’s fascinating. We’ve talked about it and it depends when the film is made. We’re talking about maybe three of four years’ time, so I think Robert Downey Jr could definitely play me at one point in my life because he’s musical and he sings. He’d be wonderful.”
But for now Elton, who was knighted in 1998, is focused on Zachary. “I have a gnome of my own,” he said. “David and I will be able to steer him in the right direction, but I know he’s going to teach me far more than I could ever teach him.”
The couple have homes in London, New York, Nice and Venice, and are currently living just off Hollywood’s Sunset Strip in a luxury apartment Elton bought in 2007 for £1.6 million. They also own a smaller apartment next door, bought for £1.3 million, which is intended for Zachary and his nanny.
But, says Elton, “David and I are very hands-on. The nanny has one day a week off and we change Zachary’s nappies and feed him. Every night one of us reads him a story – last night it was The Best Nest and the night before it was Dogs Don’t Wear Sneakers – and 6.30 is now a sacrosanct time in my life because I spend it solely with my son before he goes to bed.
“When I was growing up in the early Fifties, I didn’t get the tactile love from my father that I will give to my child. I’ll be a very loving parent. All he’s doing at the moment is pooping, eating and burping, so he’s a blank canvas and it’s very lovely to see. He lies there and he has no mortgage worries or thoughts about what he’s going to do tomorrow. We just need to make sure he’s a loving person.”
A lifelong supporter and former chairman of Watford Football Club, Elton is already making plans for baby Zachary’s future as a fan.
“I was talking to the Watford manager Malky Mackay this morning and they’ve dropped off a Watford kit for him at my house in London,” he said. “One of the great things about having a boy is that he’ll be brought up as a Watford supporter. I can’t wait to take him there for his first game.”
Then he laughs: “If he chooses Chelsea, I’m going to kill him.”
‘Gnomeo and Juliet’ opens on February 11




Live Shots

http://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2010-04-16/993393/

By Raoul Hernandez, Fri., April 16, 2010

Elton John and Davey Johnstone (l)

Elton John

Frank Erwin Center, April 10
If Elton John toddled onstage at Frank Erwin Center Saturday night looking a little like a five-foot Muppet, it was no joke. Impeccably dressed in a satin blue chemise and black tailcoat – with a sequined crocodile snapping down on the Sir Elton of his ubiquitous Greatest Hits on the back – the cuddly, 63-year-old pianist had just allowed a 16,000-strong sold-out arena its final breath for at least an hour. Augmented by bass, keyboards, and percussion, the quartet that cut John's 1973 masterpiece Goodbye Yellow Brick Road arrived in Austin intact, save for late bass player Dee Murray, after what the band's namesake later estimated was a 10-year local hiatus in a nearly continuous U.S. tour marking its 40th anniversary. In fact, the sonic fog of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road opener "Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding" was already rising as John took his seat along with drummer Nigel Olsson, who was finally out of his trademark jumpsuit, his perennially long hair grown white, and grinning madly at the bandleader while Edinburgh axe Davey Johnstone stood left of the bandleader's Yamaha grand, wielding a Les Paul stenciled with Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy. John, Olsson, and Johnstone howled, with the segue into "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" becoming the first gut-punch in a relentless barrage that never waned over two and a half hours. The headliner sang his co-writer Bernie Taupin's lyrics like a playwright refining dialogue. Announcing a triptych from 1971's Madman Across the Water next, John again signaled the night's intentions: take no prisoners. "Daniel" giving way to an extended, out-of-this-world "Rocket Man," John's instrumental intro to "Take Me to the Pilot" running the gamut from Tchaikovsky to Fats Domino, and "Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word" all welcomed a worthy newcomer, "You're Never Too Old to Love Somebody," from an upcoming collaboration between John and his early "idol" Leon Russell. "The Bitch Is Back"? She never left.

Set List

“Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding”
“Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting”
“Levon”
“Madman Across the Water”
“Tiny Dancer”
“Philadelphia Freedom”
“Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”
“Daniel”
“Rocket Man”
“I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues”
“Sad Songs (Say So Much)”
“Take Me to the Pilot”
“Something About the Way You Look Tonight”
“Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me”
“Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word”
“Candle in the Wind”
“You’re Never Too Old to Love Somebody”
“Honky Cat”
“Burn Down the Mission”
“Bennie and the Jets”
“The Bitch Is Back”
“I’m Still Standing”
“Crocodile Rock”
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“Your Song”
“Circle of Life”




Sir Elton will be the first to rock Eugene’s Matthew Knight Arena


http://oregonmusicnews.com/blog/2011/02/15/sir-elton-will-be-the-first-to-rock-eugenes-matthew-knight-arena/

by Kevin Tomanka on February 15, 2011
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In its first month of operation, Eugene’s newly built Matthew Knight Arena has already garnered positive reviews and wowed thousands of Duck fans at UO Basketball home games. This week it is about to begin its life as a multi-purpose arena. Already on the event schedule, “Matt Court” as it’s now being affectionately called, has a tennis match, the Harlem Globetrotters, and a visit from the Pro Bull Riding circuit. But Thursday it will be hosting its first, non-university concert, and they couldn’t have gotten a bigger name for the event.
Elton John is one of the top-selling solo artists of all time. His career has spanned five decades, and he has 250 worldwide record sales to his credit including “Candle in the Wind 1997″ which alone sold 37 million copies. He has played more than 3,000 concerts in his lifetime but this will be his first time ever playing in Eugene, Oregon. Tickets for the event went on sale back in December of 2010 and quickly set the bar high for the arena’s quickest sell out–this was before work on the building was even complete–going on sale at noon on December 2nd and completely selling out before the end of the day.
Elton and his band (which includes Davey Johnstone on guitar, Bob Birch on bass, John Mahon on percussion, Nigel Olsson on drums, and Kim Bullard on keyboards) will be performing their “Greatest Hits Live” show for Eugene fans, combining many of his 29 Top 40 hits into a single show that will guarantee singing out loud and dancing in the aisles.
The University of Oregon Athletic Director, Rob Mullens, said, ” Elton is the most prolific artist we could have dreamed of hosting for a concert as we open the Matthew Knight Arena. Playing all of his number one hits will truly make this a memorable night in Eugene.”
It will without a doubt be an evening to remember and a wonderful way to show Eugene that this arena will truly be functioning as multi-purpose venue–more than just a MacArthur Court with better air conditioning.
Elton John plays “All Hits, All Night” at Eugene’s Matthew Knight Arena on Thursday, February 17th at 8pm.  Tickets are sold out but leave a comment below for your chance to win a bundle of Elton John swag.  Prizes include CDs, posters and LPs.



Elton John Wants His Son To Have An "Old-Fashioned Childhood"

http://celebritybabyscoop.com/2011/02/17/elton-john-son-old-fashioned-childhood

Elton John Wants His Son To Have An "Old-Fashioned Childhood"
Sir Elton John and longtime partner David Furnish are determined to give their son Zachary an “old-fashioned childhood”. The couple, who welcomed their first child together via surrogate on Christmas Day 2010, hopes that despite their vast wealth, their son will be able to remain grounded.
“I so value my own childhood now, and the sense of wonder and personal discovery that I enjoyed, that we want to give Zachary – as much as we possibly can – the same thing,” explains the 63-year-old singer. “A solid old-fashioned childhood, if you like.”
I know it'll be hard with my life, but we want him to have that same normality and for things in life to have real value. So we don't intend to spoil him – we're going to try to give him a fun, carefree time of innocence, freedom, love and stability.
Elton also expressed his concern for today's children who don't appreciate the things they have growing up in our entirely materialistic world: “I don't know if kids get that sort of enjoyment out of things anymore. I don't think you can do because your parents worked so hard when money was scarce to buy you a bicycle or your first record player.”
“I don't want to become Britain's crustiest old man but I don't think you can possibly have the pleasure now of growing up like we did,” he continues. “ A trip to the cinema was a treat, a trip up to London was unbelievably exciting. A trip anywhere.”
Recently, the Candle in the Wind singer gushed about his smooth transition into fatherhood: “It's been a breeze. It's delightful, enchanting.”
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