2025 will be here before you know it–and so apparently, will new Elton John music. . . .
During a joint appearance with Brandi Carlile, Elton told Stephen Colbert as much, although he didn’t offer specifics.
Meanwhile, Elton and Brandi’s Never Too Late (from the new documentary of the same name) is on the shortlist for an Oscar, in the Best Original Song category. The nominations will be revealed on 17 January.
The ceremony is being held on 2 March, 2025, along with with popular parties, such as the Elton John AIDS Foundation‘s. According to Forbes, the 2024 event was one of the best. Not only was a record $10.8 million raised, there was a ”youthful vibe,” thanks to attendees like Wolfgang Van Halen, Orville Peck, MUNA, and actress/model Isabella Attolini.
Never Too Late isn’t just being considered for an Academy Award. It is up for Outstanding Original Song for a Dramatic or Documentary Visual Media Production at the Society of Composers and Lyricists Awards on the 12th of February.
MovieWeb has come out with the best films about Elton, including Never Too Late, which is now available to stream on Disney+. Others aren’t about the star, but feature an appearance, like the 2022 Abbey Road documentary, If These Walls Could Sing, directed by Paul McCartney’s daughter Mary.
Paul and Elton’s fans will be able to catch the performers in the sequel to the 1984 mockumentary, This Is Spinal Tap. It’s due next year, and director Rob Reiner told Loudwire about the accompanying soundtrack. It will include a couple of cuts from Elton, and one from Paul McCartney. ”They’re not Spinal Tap-type songs, they’re ones people know. But the rest are new.”
And just in time for the holiday season, there’s a new attraction at Madame Tussauds in London, England: a wax figure of Elton doing a handstand, one of his favourite concert poses in the seventies.
He even decided on an impromptu handstand at his first Watford board meeting in 1974.
According to the Watford Observer, most of the attendees smiled, but the football club’s chairman Jim Bonser was not amused.
