Elton John hopes to live for another two decades
Music legend Elton John, who is 78-years-old, hopes to live for another 20 years
- LOS ANGELES — Music legend Elton John, who is 78-years-old, hopes to live for
another 20 years.
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- The icon, who has sons Zachary, 14, and 11-year-old Elijah,
with husband David Furnish, said he doesn’t like talking about his own
mortality but was still taken by surprise when he “lost it” and broke down in
tears while recording new song ‘When This Old World Is Done With Me’, which
tackles the subject, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
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- He told Rolling Stone UK: “I lost it for 45 minutes. It’s
all on film. I just sobbed and sobbed and sobbed… When you're 77 years of age
and you have a family, and two children, there's only a certain amount of time
you've got left.
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- “Hopefully, I’ve got at least another 20 years. But when
you’re actually confronted on a song, it’s like, ‘Oh my God.’ It really
surprised me. I wasn’t expecting it. I don’t like talking about it but you have
to be realistic.”
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- John spent years battling drug and alcohol addiction but
after overcoming those struggles, he insisted life hasn’t always been easy
since then.
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- He said: “I didn’t think I was going to die but I knew that
if I carried on, there was a good chance it was going to happen.
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- “And I woke up and smelled the roses, and things have been
great since, but it doesn’t mean that I haven’t been through strife, operations
and everything like that, losing the eyesight in this eye, which happened after
the album. But there’s always something tough I seem to be tackling.”
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- Making new album LP ‘Who Believes in Angels?’ with Brandi
Carlile has given the ‘Rocket Man’ hitmaker a new lease of life.
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- He said: “I push and push and push and it’s music that gets
me through it. My family and making this album made me feel so good about
myself. I’ve left the old Elton John behind and here’s the new one.”
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