Posted on 03/23/2007 5:47:14 PM PDT by Cecily
"I've no wish to be living sixty years on."
A 23-year-old Elton John sang those words at his first U.S. concert, at the Troubadour club in Los Angeles on Aug. 25, 1970.
On Sunday night at a sold-out concert at New York's Madison Square Garden, John will open with the same song, "Sixty Years On." The show, not coincidentally, will also be his 60th sell-out appearance there. More significantly, it will mark the day that the global pop star reaches 60 years on himself.
Much like the narrator in The Who's "My Generation," who hopes to expire "before I get old," and the guy who wonders "will you still need me, will you still feed me" in the Beatles' "When I'm Sixty-Four," the lonely, broken 60-year-old imagined in John's 1969 composition has soldiered on long past his planned expiration date.
"I never would have believed I'd still be singing it 37 years down the line," John told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution recently during some rare downtime at his Peachtree Road residence. "But that's the kind of incredible career I've had."
A part-time Atlantan for 16 years now (he has retained his British citizenship), John concedes that taking time to reminisce on that career usually ranks up there with watching his beloved Braves blowing four games in a row on the road.
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Agree. It seems like the entire U.S. is turning 60. My parents are actually turning 61 this year. What is amazing is that all these stars are turning the big 60.
Also a pedophile promoting dweeb, but talented.
Elton's a Braves fan? Whodathunk it?
Yes, I'll sit with you and talk, let your eyes relive again...
You mean, he was actually singing "Oh Let Your Son Go Down on Me" all of these years?
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