It consisted of concerts worldwide. On 24 January , it was announced that Elton John would be retiring from touring and would soon embark on a three-year tour. John cited spending time with his children along with David Furnish as the reason for his retirement.
Tickets went on sale on 24 February and within hours tickets for the first 60 shows were sold out. Further North American tour dates were announced on 26 September The original announcement detailed sixteen concerts taking place across England, Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland.
On 23 June , a stadium leg was announced which was to go across Europe , North America and Oceania. It should have started in Frankfurt in the Deutsche Bank Park , but the new stadium stage had already been used in Oslo in the Telenor Arena. After it was announced in January that the tour would resume, music director Davey Johnstone stated that the band would wear masks and have tests every two days during the tour.
He had to temporarily postpone two shows in Dallas after testing positive for COVID and experiencing mild symptoms, and resumed the tour again after making a full recovery. John would go on to perform tour dates across the UK and Europe for and , when the tour wrapped up.
During the 24 September performance at Washington, D. On 2 December , John announced the final show of his UK Tour would be headlining Glastonbury Festival in saying "There is no more fitting way to say goodbye to my British fans". John announced the farewell tour in January with arena legs in both North America and Europe, to begin in Pennsylvania in September On 30 May , it was announced that Elton John had partnered with Peex to personalise the volume for fans' concert experiences, plus recording the show to relive it.
