ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - British music star Sir Elton John is set to retire from touring, according to a report.
The 70-year-old singer-songwriter - who has suffered from poor health in recent years - is poised to walk away from touring the globe after 50 years and one final world tour.
John - who has sons Elijah, five, and Zachary, seven, via a surrogate - is set to make the announcement “imminently”, according to the Daily Mirror newspaper.
The Rocket Man hitmaker spent two nights in intensive care and 12 days in the hospital last year after he contracted a “harmful and unusual” bacterial infection during his tour of South America.
John was returning home to Britain following a performance in Santiago, Chile when he became violently ill.
Meanwhile, in 2013, he was forced to cancel a planned appearance at London’s Hyde Park because he needed to undergo emergency appendicitis surgery.
