Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Year : 2, Issue: 14
Reuters: Music legend Elton John told a theatre audience in London on Sunday he had lost his sight after struggling to recover from an eye infection earlier in the year.
The 77-year-old star – famous for “Tiny Dancer”, “Your Song” and a string of other hits – was in London’s West End for the opening of “The Devil Wears Prada” musical, for which he wrote the score.
In an emotional speech from the stage of the Dominion Theatre at the end of the show, he said the performance had sounded good, but he had not been able to watch it.
“As some of you may know I have had issues and now I have lost my sight. I haven’t been able to see the performance but I have enjoyed it,” John said. He thanked his husband David Furnish for being his “rock”.
John, who has sold more than 300 million records over a six-decade career, said in a documentary that premiered in September that his health made him worry about the future.
“It’s been a while since I’ve done anything,” he said. “There’s hope and encouragement that it will be okay, but it’s, I’m kind of stuck at the moment.”
John, who shot to fame in the early 1970s, went on a farewell tour from 2018 to 2023.
