He finished off his farewell North American tour with a massive show in Los Angeles that was live streamed on Disney Plus. But he had one more stop to make.
John’s actual last performance in the United States, a curious and minor epilogue to his grand adieu, was on Tuesday night when he briefly stopped traffic in one of America’s busiest commercial stretches to open the Christmas shopping season as the surprise guest performer at Saks Fifth Avenue’s annual reveal of its holiday windows and light show.
As the hour grew near, police blocked off Fifth Avenue between 50th and 49th streets outside Saks’s flagship store. A sea of tourists, many in town for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, rushed into the traffic void, jostling to get a better look, without a clue that John was on his way, and with a stream of honking buses and taxis and pedicabs backed up behind them.
John barely had time to soak up the applause before he was racing to join his family in the stands. The front of Saks exploded with the light show, which was designed to look like a tree and flashed to a medley of his songs, including his dance-club hit, “Cold Heart ” with Dua Lipa. Then the windows came to life, including one that looked like a Lite Brite and another, in tribute to John, that had rockets going up and down on pistons.
“You know, on the one hand, Elton can bring his husband and his two sons onstage to an unbelievably warm response from everybody in the audience,” Furnish continued. “And it went out on live stream around the world. And in other parts of the world that would be considered promotion of homosexuality and homosexuality being a lifestyle rather than a completely natural and normal thing for people.”
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