It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for: the final curtain for one of the greatest showmen on earth, closing Sunday night at his very first Glastonbury. To say the air was fizzing with anticipation for Elton John is a bit like saying “don’t forget your tent”: rumours have been abounding all weekend about the guests he’ll bring on. Will it be Taylor Swift? Lorde? Harry? Dave Grohl and Bruce Springsteen?
It’s proof, if any was needed, that John is one of the few artists who cuts across the generations, from his Seventies Rocket Man era to the Nineties omnipresence of The Lion King soundtrack and “Candle in The Wind 1997”, or the Noughties revival of the greatest road trip song via Cameron Crowe’s Oscar-winning rock odyssey Almost Famous (“Tiny Dancer”), to now, revitalised for a new generation thanks to John’s recent Dua Lipa and Britney collaborations.
