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 unveiled the trailer, which chronicles his meteoric rise to fame, the dark spells in his life, his struggles with drug addiction and the road back to sobriety. “At that time, there was an emptiness within me. My soul had gone dark, I had gone dark. I wasn’t a joy to be around. I didn’t have anything apart from my success and my drugs,” he says in the trailer.
Elton John: Never Too Late follows the musician as he reflects on his life and 50-year career as he prepared for his final North American stadium show at Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium in November 2022, which was also livestreamed on Disney+.
Watch the trailer for Elton John: Never Too Late below.
Elton John: Never Too Late is due to premiere on Disney+ on December 13 worldwide.
The film will reportedly “pull back the curtain” on Elton’s life, featuring “never-before-seen concert footage of him over the past 50 years, as well as hand-written journals and present-day footage of him and his family.”
Elton’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour began in 2018 and finally wrapped in Stockholm in July last year, earning over $900million (£708million) in gross ticket sales. At the time of its conclusion, it was the highest grossing tour of all time, but has since been overtaken by Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour and Coldplay’s Music Of The Spheres Tour.
At John’s final date in Stockholm, he told the crowd: “Fifty years of pure joy playing music… how lucky am I? I wouldn’t be sitting here… it wasn’t for you. You bought the singles, the CDs, the albums, the cassettes… [and] more importantly, you bought the tickets to the shows. You know how much I love to play live. It’s been my lifeblood to play for you guys. You’ve been absolutely magnificent.”
Meanwhile, John is not done releasing new music just yet. In May, his friend and co-writer Bernie Taupin revealed that John’s 32nd studio album is “all done and recorded”.
John has also celebrated 34 years of sobriety in recent weeks, sharing a picture online of his Alcoholics Anonymous coin, and sharing that “my life has never been better”.
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