A documentary on Elton John is about to premiere on the upcoming Toronto Movie Competition 2024.
Elton John: By no means Too Late will present John’s journey by the Farewell Yellow Brick Highway Tour, which started in 2018 and wrapped up in Stockholm final July. It was the first-ever live performance tour to earn over $900million (£708million) in gross ticket gross sales, making it the highest grossing live performance tour of all time.
In response to Music Information, the documentary can even “pull the again the curtain” on the famous person’s life, that includes “never-before-seen live performance footage of him over the previous 50 years, in addition to hand-written journals and present-day footage of him and his household”.
A number of the footage taken from the farewell tour was filmed at his remaining US efficiency on the Dodger Stadium in November 2022. The live performance was livestreamed by Disney+ and subsequently issued on the streaming platform as Elton John Reside: Farewell from Dodger Stadium.
Elton John: By no means Too Late is collectively directed by R.J. Cutler and David Furnish, John’s husband. The movie will display screen on the competition someday in September, with a Disney+ launch scheduled for a later date.
At John’s remaining date in Stockholm, he instructed the gang: “Fifty years of pure pleasure enjoying music… how fortunate am I? I wouldn’t be sitting right here… it wasn’t for you. You acquire the singles, the CDs, the albums, the cassettes… [and] extra importantly, you obtain the tickets to the exhibits. You understand how a lot I like to play reside. It’s been my lifeblood to play for you guys. You’ve been completely magnificent.”
In the meantime, John isn’t performed releasing new music simply but. In Might, his good friend and co-writer Bernie Taupin revealed that John’s thirty second studio album is “all performed and recorded”.
“I believe it’s fairly good and fairly modern and it’ll definitely shock lots of people and excite lots of people and hopefully achieve success,” Taupin teases.
A e book masking his farewell tour, authored by John himself, can be on account of publish in September.
