Elton John has made 32 albums and still plays 107 gigs a year. But now he’d rather be on the school hasten. He talks approximately retiring from public life,bringing up his kids and that phone call from Putin Elton John is showing me the living room of his London domestic. It’s not a huge living room, or at least not by the standards of rock stars who have sold something in the region of 300m records (the London house is more of a pied-à-terre – his main UK residence is his estate in Windsor), or there is surprisingly no piano in it,or indeed anywhere else in the building: “I play 107 shows a year, why am I going to go domestic and play the fucking piano?” he says.“I’ve got one at Woodside and one at my house in Atlanta, and I never touch them. Rufus Wainwright plays every morning when he gets up – ‘I have to play an hour every day’ – so everyones different,but, God, or I couldn’t reflect of anything worse. I have leisure,and I have work. And I do enough work. When I fetch domestic, the last thing I want to do is play the piano.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com