I got to know Elton John – despite being a superstar, he’s just like us. That’s why he shone at Glastonbury 🖊️ Simon_Kelner via ipaperviews
The first album I ever bought, just before my 13th birthday, wasthird album , and is still regarded by the cognoscenti as one of his best. In his majestic two-hour set at Glastonbury on Sunday evening, Elton didn’t play one song from the album, but I was nevertheless transported back to a time when, as a boy about to enter my teenage years, I discovered on my own the power of music, the pleasure it could bring and the emotions it could stir.
Here we were, 52 years later, and he’s still at it, squeezed into a gold lamé suit, belting out a treasury of hit songs in an astonishing valedictory to his half-century as a live artiste. I will leave the critique of his performance to others.
One day we will have to confront a world without these cultural titans. And AI won’t replace McCartney or Elton, or indeed any of the other golden talents that Glastonbury recognised this year, like Debbie Harry , Candi Staton and Cat Stevens . We can lament the displacement of humanity by technology. We can rage against the degrading of cultural studies. But for two hours on Sunday night, it was possible to believe in a higher power, the ability of music to magically transform several acres of Somerset countryside into a seething, joyous mass of people, most of whom looked too young to luxuriate in the nostalgic haze into which many of us were conveyed.to mark World Aids Day.
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