Wir wünschen allen Elton John Fans auf der ganzen Welt ein
frohes neues Jahr! 2016 wird ein weiteres tolles Elton Jahr! Im Februar wird
Elton´s neues Album "Wonderful Crazy Night" erscheinen. Die ersten beiden
Songs sind bereits als Downloadsingles veröffentlicht worden und machen Lust
auf viel mehr.
Elton wird im Sommer fünf mal in Deutschland auftreten und
zusätzlich am 25. November 2015 in München. Die genauen Termine könnt Ihr
dem Banner auf der Starseite entnehmen.
Freuen wir uns auf ein tolles Elton Jahr und auf viele
Begegnungen bei den Konzerten!
Im nächsten Jahr wird das Album "Captain Fantastic And The
Brwon Dirt Cowboy" seinen 40. Geburtstag feiern, das "Elton John" Album
feiert sogar sein 45. Erscheinenungsjahr. Vielleicht können wir ja noch auf
die eine oder andere Special Edition hoffen.
In diesem Sinne wünsche ich Euch allen einen guten Rutsch ins
neue Elton Jahr!
Viele liebe Grüße
Euer Webmaster
Ein Besuch in Disneyland - Elton im Rollstuhl
An Heilig Abend hat die Familie Furnish-John einen Ausflug
ins Disneyland Anaheim gemacht. Begleitet von drei Bodyguards und einer
Nanny haben sie sich einen schönen Tag in dem Vergnügungspark gemacht.
Elton und David erfüllten ihren beiden Söhnen einen Traum,
für Zachary war es ein vorgezogenes Geburtstagsgeschenk. Er feierte einen
Tag später seinen 5. Geburtstag.
Auf einigen Bildern haben wir Elton in einem Rollstuhl
gesehen. Was war da los?
Aus Elton´s Kreisen hieß es, dass er sich den Knöchel
verletzt hat. Er wollte seine Söhne nicht enttäuschen und den Tag nicht
ausfallen lassen.
Also kein Grund zur Sorge.
Elton hat auchkeine Karusselfahrt ausgelassen wie wir auf dem
unteren Foto sehen können.
Ein riesengroßes Knusperhaus
Ein riesengroßes Knusperhaus hat die Familie Furnish-John von
Neal Patrick bekommen. Dass die beiden Familien miteinander befreundet sind,
istlange kein Geheimnis mehr. Seit mehreren Jahren verbringen sie gmeinsam
ihre Urlaube und feiern die wichtigsten Feste miteinander. So ist eskein
Wunder, dass Harris dieses Gingerbreadhouse der John-Family zu Weihnachten
geschickt hat.
“Wow!! This has to be the most beautiful gingerbread house I
have ever seen. Thank-you Neil, David, Harper and Gideon!! Have a very Merry
Christmas", schrieb Elton mit dem Foto auf Instagram.
22. Dezember 2016
How hubby David is controlling Elton´s Live - ein Artikel der Sun
Pünktlich zum 10.
Hochzeitstag von Elton und David hat die SUN einen Artikel über das
Privatleben der beiden veröffentlicht.
THE SUN (21 December 2015)
By Richard White
Elton John’s control-freak hubby David Furnish now CEO of
singer’s company
Furnish has increasing influence over the singing superstar
behind closed doors
To the world outside, David Furnish is the rock Sir Elton
John depends on. He is the superstar’s lover, partner and co-father to their
two young sons Zachary and Elijah and seen as the one constant in a
notorious rock and roll lifestyle of wild excess.
But sources inside Sir Elton’s inner circle now say Furnish,
53, is behaving like a control freak, exercising an increasing influence
over the music legend.
The past 18 months have been a turbulent time for Elton, 68,
who has parted company with a host of loyal employees including managers,
publicist, lawyer and domestic staff. Record deals have been bungled as US
music company executives despair of negotiations.
In the past year the singer has also been publicly humiliated
by a series of PR gaffes. And friends and music insiders are now firmly
pointing the finger at Furnish, who they blame for the disasters.
A source close to the couple said: “Elton is looking for a
quiet life and has handed control of his life to David. But David is
behaving like a control freak with little idea how to run Elton’s financial
or domestic affairs. He has fallen out with and fired some very experienced
and loyal people and other domestic staff are suddenly being slapped with
gagging orders so they can’t talk about Elton or David.
“They have six houses all round the world. All those
gardeners, chauffeurs, maids, cleaners. They are all gagged. Whenever you
visit one of the houses you now have to put your phone in a basket when you
go through the front door.”
Friends say they fear Elton is becoming increasingly detached
as Furnish takes ever greater control. One old friend, who has not seen him
for months, said: “Furnish is in danger of turning Elton into some sort of
eccentric Howard Hughes character. You just can’t get near him. But Elton
buys it all. He’s 69 in March. He feels anything for the quiet life. He’s
got his kids and tours and just does it.
“But not everybody can be wrong. If David doesn’t like
friends or staff he severs them. Elton lives in a bubble so he’s touring and
he has all his backstage things. His staff know what to tell and not tell
him but Furnish is his lifeline. Elton only ever hears Furnish’s point of
view.”
In the past two years the pair have axed a string of key
staff, some of whom have served them for decades. The source added: “Elton’s
had in the region of probably seven or eight managers since he and Furnish
got together. Rod Stewart has had the same manager since the Seventies.
David Bowie, the same.”
The latest associate rumoured to be forced out is fiercely
loyal and deeply private PR man Gary Farrow, who has resigned after 35 years
service. In a statement, he simply cited “directional differences between
Elton’s new management and myself”. Last night he refused to comment
further.
Elton has suffered a string of public disasters, with
insiders blaming Furnish for the damage to his image. When a Russian phone
hoaxer pretending to be Vladimir Putin conned Elton into appearing on radio,
Furnish compounded the disaster by immediately putting details of the
“talks” on Instagram. A US source said: “With radio hoaxes so common, a
smart move would have been to check that the phone call really was from
Putin. Elton was humiliated.”
Elton was also mocked earlier this year for being pictured
with a Dolce & Gabbana bag hours after calling for a boycott of the brand.
He was furious at the designers after they said kids born from IVF
treatment, like his sons, were “synthetic”. But a US music source said:
“When the pictures broke on The Sun’s website of Elton carrying a D&G bag
there was pandemonium in the camp. At the time, PR Farrow suggested the
photo was doctored but later confirmed it wasn’t.”
Elton also refused to attend his mother’s 90th birthday,
prolonging a rift which has lasted seven years. It is a family tragedy that
devastated Sheila firmly blames firmly on Furnish, who has been in a
relationship with her son since 1993. Speaking in March, she said her son
had told her he “hated her” after she called Furnish “that f***ing thing you
married”.
At her 90th birthday celebrations, Sheila even ended up
befriending an Elton John lookalike. A family source said: “This was the
woman that bought him up and gave him private piano lessons. She ended up
with a lookalike. It’s very sad and all totally avoidable.”
The influence of Canadian Furnish, a filmmaker, is also being
felt in Elton’s financial affairs. The Sun can reveal that in the past 12
months Sir Elton has quietly handed control of large chunks of his
multi-million pound music and film businesses to Furnish. He was appointed a
director of Rocket Stage Ltd, worth £1.3million, in January 2014 and he is
already a director of Rocket Pictures Ltd, which is worth £4.7million
A business source said: “Effectively David Furnish has become
CEO of Elton John Ltd. He is taking control of his companies, his tours, his
whole career. Some very loyal people have been sacrificed as David has taken
over.” A US record company source said Furnish had also been meddling in
Elton’s music with unintentional consequences. She said: “There’s a story.
Furnish goes into Capitol Records in America — Elton’s label.
“Steve Barnett, the CEO, kicks him out after 20 minutes and
says to his team, ‘I don’t want Elton ... ’ “The meeting ends abruptly and
Elton’s left without a label. That’s why he moved to Island two months ago,
another label in Universal that will have him. It’s a terrible state of
affairs for a major global artist.
“Elton is not set up financially like a Rod Stewart. Unlike
him, he doesn’t own all of the publishing rights to his music and so doesn’t
earn the same kind of royalty cheques. He has six houses to run all over the
world with a huge team of staff. That all has to be paid for. It costs
millions. He does the touring because that brings the money in.”
Furnish’s apparent power grab comes as he and Elton have
developed markedly different lifestyles. The singer has turned his back on
wild parties involving sex and drugs in favour of quiet time in his mansion
with his sons. A US source said: “Elton is 68 years old. He has had a rough
ride and not had the easiest of lives. He very much wants a quieter life and
to devote as much time as possible to his sons.
“David is still a relatively young man who likes the company
of younger people, so he is still up for the odd party.” He is also a doting
father.
But The Sun has revealed how he likes to party on yachts in
the South of France with musclebound young men, as his Instagram and
Facebook accounts reveal. And he has never publicly explained why one of
those young men, Danny Williams, lives in a flat owned by Furnish.
In June we revealed how Furnish splashed out more than
£330,000 for a two-bed luxury apartment in South London for his close
friend. Furnish also helped decorate the flat, for which Danny pays him
rent. Land registry records show it was bought in 2013, after the pair met
on the gay clubbing scene. David then jetted model Danny on a string of
lavish holidays, including first-class trips to Hawaii.
Leeds-born Danny is openly gay but has a 12-year-old son and
ten-year-old daughter from a relationship with a woman. He now works as a
personal trainer.
Elton and Furnish tied the knot on December 21, 2005, the
same day civil partnerships for gays were legalised. They officially married
last December after the law changed again. Today they split their time
between two American homes, in Atlanta and Los Angeles, three in the UK and
one in France.
While Elton is in the middle of a world tour and will be
performing in LA in January, Furnish is still working as a film and stage
producer, responsible for the 3D animation Gnomeo & Juliet and Billy Elliot
The Musical. He also works one day a week on the Elton John Aids Foundation,
which has raised nearly £134million.
In an interview with The Sun, Elton said he was hoping to
scale back, leaving the way clear for David to take a much greater role. He
said: “Yeah, a simplification of things. My life has got simpler over the
last few years, I have a great steady relationship with David, I’m sober, I
have a great career. I have my children now, which was much more of a
calming influence on me than I ever thought it would be.”
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12. Dezember 2016
Elton John review: Friday night's all right
.
December 11, Rod Laver Arena
Elton John never did sexy. Or angry. Or cool, really. Sure he
did time as a bona fide rock star, but he was always too much about his
piano and his craft; too emotionally in tune with his lyricist Bernie
Taupin's autumnal introspection, to play the frisky young buck with any
conviction.
The upshot is that age has stolen little from his bag of
tricks. All the Hits is the decidedly cocoa-friendly title of this, his
17th, Australian tour. The lion's share of them might have been played at
his third or fourth.
From the fail-safe opening slab of Goodbye
Yellow Brick Road to the inevitable "la-las" of Crocodile
Rock, he wore his classic catalogue like the
impeccably tailored dressing gown that spelled out FANTASTIC in sparkles
when the light hit just right.
The overwhelming weight of albums 40 to 50 years old was an
issue for nobody in the packed arena – not even the dexterous piano man in
the tinted blue glasses and gold slippers, who deftly delegated those
squeaky vocal hooks of Tiny
Dancer and Rocket
Man to his able percussionist.
The one song from this century, Hey
Ahab, and others from merely 25 years gone (The
One,Believe),
were composed for a much less agile and interesting voice, which may have
explained his audience's polite indifference to them.
And on balance, sad songs said perhaps too much, when all
those scarf-waving ballads about candles in the wind and the sun going down
and exactly why they call it the blues had played their part in a possibly
overgenerous set.
But when the needle skipped up and back to the sweet soul
stabs of Philadelphia
Freedom or the sunshiny innocence of Your
Song – dancing on solo piano before a masterful
full-band intervention – well, Sir, you could practically feel every blessed
face in the room smiling.
Nor was there much real danger of pandemonium in a sensibly
rockin' home trot that started with the double-pronged hissy fit of The
Bitch is Back and I'm
Still Standing and finished with everybody
shouting Saturday until
it very nearly was.
Not a night of surprises or novel developments, then. But in
the end, John's sincerely expressed affection for such a loyal audience,
after all these turbulent years, completed a circle of gratitude that might
easily sustain an 18th or 20th return. Which could be better than sexy,
after all.
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Billy Elliot: Der letzte Vorhang fällt im April - ein Pressebericht
Seit elf Jahren tanzt BILLY ELLIOT am Londoner West End. Am 9. April 2016
wird er zum letzten Mal die Ballettschuhe anziehen - das Victoria Palace
Theatre wird umgestaltet. Ganz verschwindet der Junge mit der großen
Leidenschaft für das Ballett allerdings nicht von der Musicalbühne: In
Plymouth startet bereits im kommenden Februar die Musicaltour durch das
Vereinigte Königreich und Irland.
Musical verlässt das Victoria Palace
Theatre
Zum 11. Geburtstag hebt sich zum letzten Mal der Vorhang für BILLY ELLIOT am
Victoria Palace Theatre am Londoner West End. Für 4.600 Aufführungen war das
erfolgreiche Musical um den jungen Sohn eines Bergarbeiters, der so gerne
Balletttänzer werden möchte, hier zu sehen. Mehr als 5,25 Millionen Menschen
haben sich die Geschichte allein in London angesehen, weltweit zog das
Musical, das auf dem gleichnamigen Film aus dem Jahr 2000 beruht, schon fast
elf Millionen Zuschauer an. Produzent Cameron Mackintosh plant im kommenden
Jahr eine Umgestaltung des Theaters, daher muss das Musical weichen. Das war
bereits seit längerer Zeit bekannt, unklar war allerdings, ob BILLY ELLIOT
an einen anderen Spielort ausweichen wird.
Das Musical erzählt die Geschichte eines Jungen, der seine große
Leidenschaft für das Ballett entdeckt, seine eher ungewöhnliche Leidenschaft
aber zunächst vor seiner Familie geheim hält. Vor der Kulisse des
nordöstlichen Englands und vor dem historischen Hintergrund des
Bergarbeiter-Streiks in den Jahren 1984/85 angesiedelt, begeisterte bereits
der Film das Publikum. Stephen Daldry übernahm bei Film und Musical die
Regie, Buch und Texte stammen von Lee Hall, Elton John schrieb die Musik.
Am New Yorker Broadway feierte BILLY ELLIOT im November 2008 Premiere und
war für 1.312 Aufführungen zu sehen. Das Musical gewann zehn Tony Awards,
darunter die Auszeichnung für das beste Musical.
BILLY ELLIOT Tour startet im Februar
2016
In Großbritannien müssen die Fans nicht vollständig auf das Musical
verzichten: Im Juni 2015 startete bereits der Vorverkauf für eine Tour durch
das Vereinigte Königreich und Irland, die am 24. Februar 2016 in Plymouth
beginnt. Die Tour ist nach derzeitigem Stand bis Mai 2017 unterwegs, weitere
Aufführungsorte folgen eventuell. Zudem besteht Hoffnung, dass die Show in
zwei bis drei Jahren nach London zurückkehrt.
Darüber hinaus ist auch eine Verfilmung des Musicals im Gespräch – obwohl
das Musical selbst eine Film-Adaption ist. Die Produktionsfirma Working
Title Films interessiert sich für das Projekt, Daldry und Hall sind der
britischen Presse zufolge von der Idee begeistert. Der neue Film soll dabei
“vollkommen anders” sein als sein Vorläufer und sich zum Beispiel mehr auf
den historischen Hintergrund des Bergarbeiter-Streiks konzentrieren.
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Elton John und Ed Sheeran im Duett
Elton ist während seiner Australien Tour in Sydney bei einem Ed Sheeran
Konzert gewesen und die beiden haben auf der Bühne den Klassiker "Don´t Go
Breaking My Heart" gesungen. Das Video könnt Ihr Euch hier anschauen.
Viel Spass dabei!
10. Dezember 2016
+++ Eilmeldung: Elton John und Band Live in München am 25. November 2016 +++
Gestern wurde bestätigt, dass Elton John neben den fünf
Konzerten im Sommer noch ein weiteres Konzert geben wird. Er wird am Freitag
den 25. November 2016 mit Band in der Münchener Olympiahalle auftreten.
Der Vorverkauf beginnt offenbar schon morgen (laut unseren
Informationenkeine Gewähr!).
5. Dezember 2016
Looking Up - der Songtext
Figuring out where I went wrong
The script not followed, then was awfully long
Too much pluck, too little of
The acting right, not acting up
I wore the world upon my back
Though someone else could meet, pick up the slack
Just because I could say
It's my life, do things my way
Now I'm looking up more than I look down
The view's a whole lot better second time around
Too much of me was hidden in the shadows
I looked up and felt my feet lift off the ground
Color a lot with a broader stroke
The laughter comes as easy as the jokes
Nowadays, I'm thinking 'bout
Time is wasted looking back
Now I'm looking up more than I look down
The view's a whole lot better second time around
Too much of me was hidden in the shadows
I looked up and felt my feet lift off the ground
You drop a bucket in a well
It's dark and deep down there
Crank the handle, bring it up
The water, crystal clear
I'm looking up more than I look down
The view's a whole lot better second time around
Too much of me was hidden in the shadows
I looked up and felt my feet lift off the ground
I'm looking up more than I look down
The view's a whole lot better second time around
Too much of me was hidden in the shadows
I looked up and felt my feet lift off the ground
Looking up
Looking up
Looking up
Looking up
2016
Elton John/Bernie Taupin
Heute vor 10 Jahren - Elton John Live in Hamburg
Heute vor 10 Jahren spielte Elton in Hamburg. Wir möchten mit
der Setlist an dieses Konzert erinnern:
Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
Bennie And The Jets
Daniel
Turn The Lights Out When You Leave
Take Me To The Pilot
Rocket Man
I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues
Blessed
The One
Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters
Sacrifice
Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
Tiny Dancer
Philadelphia Freedom
Sad Songs (Say So Much)
They Call Her The Cat
Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me
I'm Still Standing
The Bitch Is Back
Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)
Crocodile Rock
Your Song
Für Lisa war es das erste Elton Konzert. Ihre Gedanken zu
diesem Konzert heute 10 Jahre später:
On this day 10 years ago I had the incredible chance to
attend my first Elton John concert. It was the beginning of a fantastic
journey. I am thankful and even a little proud of being able to say that I
will attend my 27th concert next year. Elton plays a big part in my life.
The music means the world to me.. it has helped me through dark times and
still does. I cannot explain the feeling I have when I stand in the first
rows.. it is probably like entering another world.. a world full of joy,
love and happiness without the need to worry too much about the bad things.
It helps me to forget for a moment... it helps to feel the energy floating
in my body and makes me realize that I am still alive.. How horrible life
might be those concerts always help me to feel a little better.
Thank you, Elton!
1. Dezember
2015
Heute ist
Welt AIDS Tag
Weltweit leben etwa 35 Millionen Menschen mit HIV. Rund 2,1 Millionen kommen
pro Jahr dazu. Noch lange haben nicht alle Zugang zu den lebensnotwendigen
Medikamenten. Und noch immer erleben Betroffene Ausgrenzung und
Stigmatisierung. Am 1. Dezember ist Welt-Aids-Tag.
2015 findet der Welt-Aids-Tag zum 28. Mal statt. Seit 1988 wird er jährlich
am 1. Dezember begangen. Mit zahlreichen spannenden Aktionen erinnern
Regierungen, Organisationen und Vereine weltweit an diesem Tag an HIV und
Aids, und rufen dazu auf, aktiv zu werden und Solidarität mit den von HIV
betroffenen Menschen zu zeigen. Das Spektrum reicht von Informationsständen
in der Innenstadt über Podiumsdiskussionen bis hin zu Spendengalas mit
großem Promi-Engagement.
Der Welt-Aids-Tag dient auch dazu, Verantwortliche in Politik, Medien,
Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft - weltweit wie auch in Europa und Deutschland -
daran zu erinnern, dass das HI-Virus noch längst nicht besiegt ist. Auch,
damit überall die notwendigen Mittel bereitgestellt werden und sich
Vorbeugung, Aufklärung, Behandlung und Hilfe für die Betroffenen an ihren
Lebensrealitäten orientieren können.
Daten &
Fakten zu HIV/Aids weltweit
Weltweitleben
etwa35
MillionenMenschen
mit HIV.
Pro Jahrkommt
es zu ca.2,1
MillionenNeuinfektionen,
davon etwa240.000bei
Kindern.
Nur37
Prozentder
Betroffenen haben bislangZugang
zu den lebensnotwendigen Medikamenten.
Seit Anfang der 80er
Jahre bis 2013 haben sich etwa78
Millionen Menschenmit
HIV infiziert;39
MillionenMenschen sind bereits an den Folgen
gestorben.
Mit fast70%aller
HIV-Neuinfektionen istAfrika
südlich der Saharaam
stärksten betroffen.
Besonders inOst-EuropaundZentralasienist
die Zahl der Neuinfektionen deutlich gestiegen, 2013 allein
um110.000.
InDeutschlandleben
heute rund80.000
Menschenmit
HIV.
Etwa30.000Menschen
sind bisher in Deutschlandan
den Folgen von Aids gestorben.
In Deutschland setzen sich das Bundesministerium für Gesundheit,
die Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung, die Deutsche
AIDS-Hilfe und die DeutscheAids-Stiftung
mit einer gemeinsamen Kampagne für dieses gesellschaftsrelevante
Thema ein. Unter dem Motto „Positiv zusammen leben“ liegt der
Schwerpunkt in diesem Jahr auf ganz persönlichen
„Gewissensfragen“ und dem Aufruf zur Toleranz und Solidarität:
Die meisten Menschen wissen, dass sie im Alltag vor einer
Infektion mit HIV sicher sind. Aber in den Situationen, in denen
es auf dieses Wissen ankommt, vertrauen manche doch nicht darauf
– die Ängste sind stärker. Darum fragt unsere Kampagne: „Was
wäre, wenn der Mensch Dir gegenüber HIV hätte? Was würdest Du
tun?“
