Glastonbury Festival: Lewis Capaldi gets emotional, Elton John thrills crowd

It was an emotional and memorable day for Lewis Capaldi as well as his fans. While performing before a huge crowd, he struggled with Tourette’s syndrome during his last number, and then the crowd came to his rescue and took over as his voice broke.

The UK chart-topper got emotional and thanked the Glastonbury crowd for supporting him Saturday at Pyramid Stage after he was forced to cut short as his voice broke and he struggled.

Capaldi has said that he will take off for the rest of the year after the Glastonbury festival and hoped to recover from his mental problems. He took a break of three weeks before participating in the Glastonbury festival. The British singer said that Glastonbury was special to him, so he took part in it.


Netflix recorded in a documentary that Capaldi’s personal problems soared as he progressed in his career.

On the same day, British music legend Elton John thrilled a 1,20,000-strong crowd as he belted out his greatest hits for two hours, including, ‘Bennie And The Jets, ‘Tiny Dancer’, ‘Your Song’, ‘I'm Still Standing’. He stormed the stage with ‘Pinball Wizard’ and followed it with ‘Bitch Is Back’. Glastonbury came at the end of Elton's Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour, which rang the bell at the box office with a collection of USD 887 million. Elton John invited Jacob Lusk to sing ‘Are You Ready for Love’. On the other hand, pop rookie Rina Sawamay took Kiki’s place to sing ‘Don't Go Breaking My Heart’. Nashville’s Stephen Sanchez sang ‘Until I Found You’.

Calling him ‘one of Britain's most fantastic singers, songwriters and artists’, Elton John dedicated ‘Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me’ to George Michael.

Windrush Choir and Bristol Reggae kicked off the final day of the Glastonbury Festival Sunday. Performers of these bands opened Pyramid Stage ahead of Cat Stevens and Blondie. Windrush Choir has taken its name from the Windrush generation of the people who landed in England from the Caribbean islands in 1948.

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Q1:Why dis Lewis Capaldi get emotional?
UK chart-topper singer Lewis Capaldi got emotional and thanked the Glastonbury crowd for supporting him Saturday at Pyramid Stage after he was forced to cut short as his voice broke and he struggled.

Q2:When did Elton John perform last?
Elton John thrilled a 1,20,000-strong crowd Saturday at Glastonbury Festival as he belted out his greatest hits for two hours, including, ‘Bennie And The Jets’, ‘Tiny Dancer’, ‘Your Song’, ‘I'm Still Standing’.