{"id":118595,"date":"2024-10-11T15:01:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T15:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/10\/11\/elton-john-says-prior-to-fatherhood-his-life-had-no-purpose\/"},"modified":"2024-10-11T15:01:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T15:01:24","slug":"elton-john-says-prior-to-fatherhood-his-life-had-no-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/10\/11\/elton-john-says-prior-to-fatherhood-his-life-had-no-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"Elton John says prior to fatherhood, his life had “no purpose”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Elton John<\/strong>‘s decision to launch a Farewell Tour came about because he says he found a new purpose in life when he became a father.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Speaking to Attitude<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0magazine<\/strong><\/a>, Elton\u00a0says he kept on touring for decades because he felt he didn’t have anything else in his life. As he puts it, he and his husband,\u00a0David Furnish<\/strong>, were “two affluent gay people going around the world with a nice philanthropic side to us, but there was no other purpose other than that.”<\/p>\n

But he says after they had their first child, Zachary<\/strong>, in 2010, and their second, Elijah<\/strong>, in 2013, they finally had something to focus on.<\/p>\n

“Having the children changed everything for the better because now it\u2019s all about them,” he says. “It\u2019s all about their welfare and their future … it\u2019s the children that just really inspire us and it\u2019s the most wonderful time of my life at the moment, and that\u2019s pretty amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Having wrapped up his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour last year, Elton says, “I understand why Adele<\/strong> wants to stop because there\u2019s more to life. I\u2019ve done nearly over 5,000 shows in my life and I\u2019ve done all there is to do, and so I just knew that my boys and David needed me, and I need them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Attitude<\/em> magazine gave Elton its Legacy Award Wednesday, which had been given out just one time prior \u2014 posthumously, in 2017, to Elton’s close friend\u00a0Princess Diana<\/strong>. In his speech<\/strong><\/a>, he noted that he’s “very lucky” to live in a country where, as a gay man, he can be married and have kids.<\/p>\n

“But there are still people who don\u2019t have those rights,” he said. “And I intend to fight for those rights until the day I die.”<\/p>\n

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Dave Benett\/Getty Images Elton John‘s decision to launch a Farewell Tour came about because he says he found a new purpose in life when he became a father.\u00a0 Speaking to Attitude\u00a0magazine, Elton\u00a0says he kept on touring for decades because he felt he didn’t have anything else in his life. AsRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}