Elton John postpones Europe tour to undergo operation

Elton John has postponed his upcoming tour within the U.Okay. and Europe so he can undergo an operation on his hip.

The Rocket Man singer modified into as soon as due to resume his closing-ever drag, the Farewell Yellow Brick Avenue tour, in Europe later this month, but on Thursday, he announced all of his 2021 tour dates will most likely be postponed until 2023 so he can undergo surgical operation following a nasty fall.

“It’s miles with stout sadness and a heavy heart that I am compelled to reschedule the 2021 dates of my Farewell Yellow Brick Avenue tour in Europe and the U.Okay. to 2023,” he told fans in an announcement.

“On the tip of my summer time destroy, I fell awkwardly on a laborious ground and had been in appreciable wretchedness and discomfort in my hip ever since. Despite intensive physio and specialist therapy, the wretchedness has continued to get worse and is leading to rising difficulties spellbinding. I even had been informed to cling an operation as soon as that you just may maybe maybe well well also imagine to get me reduction to chubby neatly being and produce definite there are no lengthy-duration of time complications. I will more than most likely be endeavor a programme of intensive physiotherapy that can make certain a chubby recovery and a return to chubby mobility without wretchedness.”

He continued to display mask that he’ll undergo the operation soon after he performs a five-tune situation at the World Citizen charity event on 25 September so he can get neatly in time for the originate of the North The United States leg of the tour in January 2022.

“I perceive how affected person my astounding fans had been since Covid halted touring closing year, and it breaks my heart to withhold you waiting from now on,” he concluded his message. “I fully feel your frustrations after the year now we cling had. I promise you this – the reveals will return to the road subsequent year and I will produce definite they are higher than worth the wait.”