Chords for Elton John - Farewell Yellow Brick Road: An Interview with Anderson Cooper (VR180)

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Thank you very much for watching online and for those in Los Angeles and for those in London look at the screen visit you the URL
To send in your questions.
We're gonna open [B] up first questions here [Gb] in New York though
While folks in London and Los Angeles have a time to actually send us questions.
I think [Bb] we have a question over here _
[Gm] Yeah, hi Elton you [G] talked a little bit about this, but I wonder if you could [N] describe you know, you're thinking about
[G] You know how difficult it was maybe to make this decision it was it a struggle and do you think that you know
Three [Em] years is a [Bb] long time that you might feel differently by [Db] the end of this tour _ _
It wasn't a hard to struggle [Fm] because you know, I love my kids so much and it was
They really [Gm] have taken over my life now and they're the most important thing
It was just how do we do this?
How do we do it?
And as I say in an elegant classy way
How do we do it?
[E] Three years time is a long time.
I'm not gonna feel different about traveling.
I've been in the back of a Bansas.
I've been 16 [Ab] and [Bb] I traveled
So much I do about 180 flights a year
And that takes it out of you.
I'm 71.
I can't physically do the traveling and I don't want to do the traveling
I don't want to travel anymore.
I want to be at home
I very rarely see my homes and I [E] really want to spend time with my
Children at my home and enjoy my life.
I've had an incredible life
But you know life is all about change
and I think if [Ab] I became someone who just worked and worked and worked [G] and worked which it was gonna be 10 years ago, [Dm] then
With children, I think that's [F] a bad thing.
They need me.
They need David.
They need [A] parents and I want to be there
Do you still get that?
Energy when you're on stage and still do you still love being on stage in front of a crowd?
[Bb] It's the greatest thing in the world, I mean making records is like doing an examination you either fail or you pass but
Playing live you never know what's gonna happen
You can feel really great backstage and you go on [N] and it's okay and the audience thinks it's okay
It's good, but you know, you know struggling sometimes when you have a headache, you're not feeling well
You go on stage you press the keys touch the keys and magic happens
You don't know you don't know when the great performances are gonna come out and that's what you love
I think we had a question was it over here _
_ _ _ What will you miss the most about touring?
_ _ Just the playing live.
I love to play live
But there's nothing better than going and pleasing an audience and getting you know, I'm so lucky as a musician
I get feedback every night from an audience
It must be so hard for movie actor to do
Movies all the time and then sneak into the premier and then sneak out again and never really get a feedback
_ Musicians are so blessed because they get that feedback the actors in the theater get that feedback
nothing is like playing to another human being and getting the emotional feedback and
Sometimes you start and they're little you know
Some countries a little colder than others and you have to get them going
But that's all part and parcel of your craft and that's part and parcel of why you're a professional musician
You never give in you never say I can't be bothered
I always wanted the audience to have the best time and I want to have the best time
I suppose when I stop I'll be able to reminisce and say God, you know, that was amazing
That was great like the Dodger Stadium footage you saw when I saw it.
I went god that must have been really incredible that day
_ But I have I've moved on you know
I went to see the Lion King's with my son the other day
And we took them to the theater in London to see it and I'm going oh, oh, yeah
I wrote this but I forget I only remember about the Lion King when I see it on the taxi cabs
All right.
We have we have questions that are coming in from London
First question is what's your all-time favorite gig and why?
_ _ Well Dodger Stadium has to be up there
But I think the night that Don [F] Lennon came on stage with me at Madison Square Garden.
I would say that was the
[Bb]
Most incredible I I get goosebumps about [N] it.
I have to say Madison Square Garden is my favorite place to play in the whole world
I just don't know and well
[G] _
It's just magic that place and it's the New York audiences and I don't know
It's just a magic place to play [F] you you can't build an arena with atmosphere
It just has it and then when the floor starts moving and you know, [N] everyone's having a great time
I have my 60th birthday concert there.
It's
The John Lennon concert I would have to say on Thanksgiving
In 1974 I think was the was the one
Did another question?
Why did you use virtual reality?
What do you think of it?
That wasn't my idea
it was the someone in [F] the office thought it would be great idea and
[Bb] Having seen it I thought it was amazingly successful
and if you're gonna do [N] something like this
You've got to pull out all the stops and make it special and I thought it was pretty special the VR
Another [Gb] question from London.
You've said your kids are learning music themselves in a few years
Would you like to say goodbye to them as they go on tour?
They play the piano
[F] They love the guitar.
They love music.
They can do whatever they want at the moment
They want to be a [Gm] footballer and an astronaut
[Eb] Are you are there certain songs you like playing live [F] the most I mean do you have [Bbm] a top three or so no
[Bb] It changes all the time.
There are certain songs that you think off.
I've got a thing that one again
Do you want to tell us what one's probably?
[N] probably crocodile rock
But these the audience love it and I you know, it's it's a guilty pleasure.
I'd say so
We're getting questions from from Los Angeles.
Are you gonna play at the troubadour?
I might who knows
What's your greatest hope for this [E] tour another [Eb] question from Los Angeles just to have the listen.
I have a great band
I have to pay tribute to my band and everyone [Em] who tours with me my road crew my sound crew everybody my management team
The band especially I [N] just want us to all have the best time also in Los Angeles
How does the troubadour fit into the story in the history of your career and touring?
Well, you saw it in the video
I mean I played the troubadour club and I had Neil Diamond into
[Bb] Introduced me
_ and I had this incredible review from Robert Hilburn [F] and
[Bb] And it helped break my career faster
I still took me two years to you know
Play second on the bill and work my bum off around America because America's a big place
You don't just be big in in New York and LA and Chicago.
There's a lot of places to [F] play.
So I play second on the bill
To Derek and the Dominoes and Leon Russell and the [G] kinks and people like that and I had a blast and I learned my craft
But the troubadour wasn't who knows it's again
It's like fate of so many things in my career been like fate meeting Bernie
Playing the troubadour meeting my husband having [Abm] children are doing the Lion King
I don't know that was just a phone call from Tim Rice's said Disney said that you'll never do this
But I'm gonna ask you and I went yeah, of course, I'll do it and look what happened.
[Bbm] That's how
What _ I'm saying is you never if you don't close [Ab] the door things happen when you [N] least expect
Another on the subject of Neil Diamond
I'm gonna contact him personally
But I would like to say publicly that I love him and I can't thank him enough for what he did for me at
the start of my career _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Elton John, thank you very much.
Thank you really an honor
The tour kicks off September 8th in Allentown, Pennsylvania ticket for North America go on sale February 2nd _ _
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