{"id":32020,"date":"2021-09-15T02:26:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T09:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/?p=32020"},"modified":"2021-09-15T02:26:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T09:26:50","slug":"elton-john-to-headline-bst-hyde-park-in-2022-for-final-london-date-on-farewell-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/concerts\/elton-john-to-headline-bst-hyde-park-in-2022-for-final-london-date-on-farewell-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Elton John to Headline BST Hyde Park in 2022 for Final London Date on Farewell Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Elton John, Dua Lipa - Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) (Official Video)\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qod03PVTLqk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/elton-john-tickets\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elton John<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> will headline BST Hyde Park in 2022 as part of his \u2018Farewell Yellow Brick Road\u2019 tour \u2013 his final ever series of live shows. John will be performing on June 24 2022 on what could be his final ever London tour date.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jim King, CEO of European Festivals at AEG said:<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u201cBST Hyde Park has always stood for the world\u2019s biggest and most loved artists bringing not just a performance but a truly one-off and memorable event.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cElton John has provided the soundtrack to the lives of so many of us and to know that his last tour is coming to Hyde Park, possibly the last time many of us will ever see him play, is one of the most important and \u2018must see\u2019 nights of BST Hyde park ever.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This September, John announced the release of a new collaboration album called <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Lockdown Sessions<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The diverse 16-track collection \u2013 10 of which are brand new and previously unreleased \u2013 celebrates togetherness and sees John collaborating with a wide range of artists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some of those involve include <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/lil-nas-x-tickets\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lil Nas X<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/dua-lipa-tickets\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dua Lipa<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/eddie-vedder-tickets\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eddie Vedder<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/miley-cyrus-tickets\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Miley Cyrus<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/gorillaz-tickets\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gorillaz<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/young-thug-tickets\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Young Thug<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/andrew-watt-tickets\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Andrew Watt<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/brandi-carlile-tickets\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brandi Carlile<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/stevie-wonder-tickets\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stevie Wonder<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and more. The album also features John\u2019s recently released collaboration with Dua Lipa, \u2018Cold Heart\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Recorded over the last 18 months, work on the singer\u2019s 32nd studio album \u2013 which is due to arrive on October 22 \u2013 began after he was forced to pause his \u2018Farewell Yellow Brick Road\u2019 tour due to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe last thing I expected to do during lockdown was make an album,\u201d <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">John said in a statement. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cBut, as the pandemic went on, one\u2010off projects kept cropping up.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSome of the recording sessions had to be done remotely, via Zoom, which I\u2019d obviously never done before,\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> John said of how he recorded the project. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSome of the sessions were recorded under very stringent safety regulations: working with another artist, but separated by glass screens.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cBut all the tracks I worked on were really interesting and diverse, stuff that was completely different to anything I\u2019m known for, stuff that took me out of my comfort zone into completely new territory.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elton John\u2019s ticket info can be found <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/elton-john-tickets\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elton John will headline BST Hyde Park in 2022 as part of his \u2018Farewell Yellow Brick Road\u2019 tour \u2013 his final ever series of live&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concerts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32021,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32020\/revisions\/32021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}