Absent dad Elton

ELTON JOHN says he wants to spend more time with his two young sons and husband david Furnish, yet at 70 is still touring the world.

david — ‘Papa’ — stays with the kids in their palatial Windsor mansion while Elton — ‘daddy’ — works, despite his £280 million fortune and a series of health scares.

now he has had to spend days in intensive care after being struck down by a mystery bug.

He has our sympathy. But why can’t he slow down and spend more time with the boys, rather than singing candle in The Wind in Las Vegas?

Elton should heed the song’s lyrics: ‘And i would have liked to have known you, but i was just a kid. Your candle burned out long before your legend ever did.’