This month Elton's summer tour of Europe kicked off in Germany. He is now in Scandinavia, where he is playing concerts in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, and Spain is next on the agenda.
Congratulations to Debbie Piemonte and her team, who organized the Second Lunch Around the World in Boston earlier this month and raised a lot of money for the Elton John AIDS Foundation.
On a recent June night in Washington, D.C., Elton John accepted the National Association of Broadcasters' Education Foundation's Leadership Award for his extraordinary efforts to fight HIV and AIDS through his Elton John AIDS Foundation.
Elton will bring his outrageous Red Piano Show to Britain this September, continuing the 2007 celebrations of his 60th birthday and 40 years of touring.
Elton is firmly in the top layer of the newly-announced Forbes Celebrity 100. This annual list of the world's most powerful, and best-paid, celebrities lists Elton at Number 7.
Forty years ago - on June 17, 1967 - an advertisement appeared in the
New Musical Express, the British pop music weekly, that changed popular music for years to come.
Elton's tour manager has just sent us through a link to the webcam overlooking the vernue in Kiev where Elton and the band will be playing a free concert Saturday June 15.
Thank you to everyone who replied with information about the mystery concert photos. We have now established that the concert took place on August 25, 1975 at the Troubadour Club in Los Angeles.