Elton’s song of retirement

Forty-seven years after he took the stage at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles in a sequinnedstudded baseball uniform as the world’s biggest pop star, Elton John walked on to the same stage on Sunday night wearing a bedazzled Dodgers bathrobe, a uniform more fitting for a 75-year-old man on the verge of retirement.

The crowd of more than 50,000 roared at the moment that came in the final minutes of the final North American concert of a tour John says will be his last.

“I want to spend time with my family because I’ll be 76 next year, he said.

He then broke into Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, the inevitable final song that gave the Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour its name. Many others joined John for the occasion including Kiki Dee, who took the stage to sing their duet, Don’t Go Breaking My Heart.