Elton John is revisiting his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour with a book that traces the 330-show journey that kicked off in Allentown, Pennsylvania in 2018, and wrapped up in Stockholm, Sweden five years later. Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road: Memories of My Life On Tour lands in stores on September 24.
“It’s been a beautiful journey creating this book and remembering the people and places that shaped an incredible chapter in my life,” John wrote on Instagram. “As well as the stories and memories, not just from this tour but from throughout my career.” A press release added that the book will offer “a rare glimpse at Elton’s personal archive of posters, sketches, and never-before-seen photographs and postcards” alongside a foreword by David Furnish, John’s husband and the tour’s creative director. Hyperion Avenue will publish the career-spanning book.
Aside the book, a new V&A exhibition Fragile Beauty will feature more than 300 "rare prints"photos from Elton John private collection.
Memories of My Life On Tour’, a full-color celebration of his record-breaking, five-year, globe-spanning tour of 330 shows! From the very first show in Allentown, PA in 2018, to the final show in Stockholm in July 2023, readers will get a behind-the-scenes look into every aspect of the incredible tour
The Victoria and Albert Museum has announced it will present a major photography exhibition from the private collection of Sir Elton John and David Furnish next year.
The Exhibition Opens Saturday, 18 May 2024
An unparalleled selection of the world's leading photographers, telling the story of modern and contemporary photography. Discover iconic images across subjects such as fashion, celebrity, reportage and the male body.
“Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection” will include over 300 modern and contemporary prints from more than 140 photographers, with most of them on display to the public for the first time. The images range from the 1950s to the present.
“Fragile Beauty takes our collaboration to really exciting new heights, showcasing some of the most beloved photographers and iconic images from within our collection,” Sir Elton John and David Furnish said in a press statement. “Working alongside the V&A again has been a truly memorable experience, and we look forward to sharing this exhibition with the public.”
The selection from the British music icon and Canadian filmmaker’s photography collection also includes fashion images, news events, celebrity portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Miles Davis, and Chet Baker, as well as photojournalism from important historical moments such as the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, AIDS activism in the 1980s and September 11, 2001.
The “Rocket Man” singer began collecting photographs in 1991, shortly after getting sober, according to the Associated Press. The couple’s private collection has grown to more than 7,000 fine art photographs, one of the largest ones of its kind in the world.
Source: Art News - Evening Standard - V&A Museum.
