The first trailer for Disney+’s upcoming career-spanning Elton John documentary has been released – watch it below.
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Last night Elton John released the trailer. The trailer chronicles his meteoric rise to fame, his life’s dark spells, his battle with drug addiction, and his journey to sobriety. “At that time, there was an emptiness inside me. My soul became dark and I became dark. I was not fun to be around. I had nothing but success and drugs. ” he says in the trailer.
In Elton John: Never Too Late, the musician looks back on his life and 50-year career as he prepares for his final North American stadium show at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles in November 2022. The show was also livestreamed on Disney+.
Watch the trailer for “Elton John: Never Too Late” below.
Elton John: Never Too Late is set to premiere worldwide on Disney+ on December 13th.
The film will reportedly “pull back the curtain” on Elton’s life and feature “unreleased concert footage of Elton from the past 50 years, handwritten diary entries, and current footage of him and his family.” are.
Elton’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour began in 2018 and finally concluded in Stockholm in July last year, with gross ticket sales of more than $900m (£708m). At the end of the tour, it was the highest-grossing tour of all time, but has since been surpassed by Taylor Swift’s Ellas Tour and Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres Tour.
On John’s last date in Stockholm, he told the crowd: I wouldn’t sit here…it’s not for you. I bought singles, CDs, albums, cassettes… (and) more importantly, I bought tickets to shows. You know how much I love playing live. Playing in front of everyone was my lifeline. you were really amazing ”
Meanwhile, John isn’t finished releasing new music yet. In May, his friend and co-writer Bernie Taupin revealed that John’s 32nd studio album is “fully finished and recorded.”
John also celebrated 34 years of sobriety in recent weeks, sharing a photo of his Alcoholics Anonymous coin online and saying, “My life has never been better.”
