John responded by offering to introduce Putin to Russians abused under Russian legislation banning "homosexual propaganda".

John cited spending time with his family as the reason for his retirement: "Ten years ago if you asked me if I would stop touring I would have said no. At their height, the club finished runners up in the First Division to Liverpool in 1983 and reached the FA Cup Final at Wembley Stadium in 1984. But what else would we expect from a man who previously said, 'From my point of view, I would ban religion completely. The plane crash that took the lives of the Marshall University football team in 1970 was a shattering event, and the film We Are Marshallchronicles the efforts of the university and the city of Huntington to bounce back. The film marks something of a comeback for Murphy, who proves once again he is one of the best actors of his generation, even if he is not always acknowledged as such by such institutions as the Academy.On 13 September 1980, with Olsson and Murray back in the Elton John Band, and joined by Richie Zito on lead guitar, Tim Renwick on rhythm guitar, and James Newton Howard on keyboards, John performed a free concert to an estimated 400,000 fans on The Great Lawn in Central Park in New York. He also released " Runaway Train", a duet he recorded with his longtime friend Eric Clapton, with whom he played on Clapton's World Tour. Step into Christmas" was released as a stand-alone single in November 1973, and appears in the album's 1995 remastered reissue. John performed "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" at the memorial service for Australian cricketer Shane Warne on 30 March 2022. John's mother, though strict with her son, was more vivacious than her husband, and something of a free spirit.

million people in London and nearly 11 million people worldwide (on Broadway where it won the Tony Award for Best Musical, in Sydney, Melbourne, Chicago, Toronto, Seoul, the Netherlands and São Paulo, Brazil etc. It turns out that wasn’t just a costume for the film — or a Halloween getup for Harry Styles — John really wore the damn thing, and there are photos to prove it.On 1 September 2021, John announced his new collaboration album The Lockdown Sessions which he made during the first COVID-19 lockdown, which was released on 22 October 2021. In 2019, he finally got the biopic he richly deserved in Rocketman, which chronicles his youth and his rise to fame, as well as his spectacular fall into addiction and despair. In October 2003, John announced that he had signed an exclusive agreement to perform 75 shows over three years at Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip. In his introduction to that concert, John said that he and other musicians should not "cherry-pick our conscience", in reference to Elvis Costello, who was to have performed in Israel two weeks after John did but cancelled in the wake of the aforementioned raid, citing his conscience.

The album and "Crocodile Rock" were respectively the first album and single on the consolidated MCA Records label in the US, replacing MCA's other labels, including Uni.Music awards include the Academy Award for Best Original Song for " Can You Feel the Love Tonight" from The Lion King, the 1994 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" from The Lion King, and the 2000 Tony Award for Best Original Score for Aida, all of which he shared with Tim Rice. Rocketman’s costume designer, Julian Day, faithfully recreated some of his more flamboyant looks, including his devil costume, complete with feathered wings.