Elton’s team has laughed off rumours he was about to retire from performing.

Elton told fans at the Festival de Carcassone in France on Tuesday: “No more shows, no more music, no more songs.” He suggested he was going to spend the rest of his time with his family, which is comprised of civil partner David Furnish, and their two children, Zachary, aged 3, and 18-month-old Elijah.

But on July 17, 2014, Elton’s spokesman dismissed talk of the singer’s imminent retirement from the world of pop. “He’s not retiring”, his spokesman told The Mirror. “Elton was only joking,” the rep added.

Elton has twice said he wanted to retire – first in 1977 and again in 2010 when he said he was “too old to be a pop star”.

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