Elton John on recording new music, eye infection

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00:00Even though you're not going to tour, you will still be recording new music?

00:03Even though you're not going to tour, you'll still be recording new music?

00:06I've got, yes, I've got records that are going to come out.

00:11We've got two musicals opening within a month of each other at the end of the year.

00:14Devil Wears Prada opens in London in December.

00:18Tammy Faye opens in New York on the Palace Theatre in November.

00:23And that's happened because of COVID.

00:24It just, you know, it wasn't planned like that, but that's the way it's happened.

00:28I still do my radio shows.

00:32David and I have a beautiful photographic exhibition

00:34at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

00:36There's plenty of things that we're doing.

00:39I like to stay active.

00:41What's happened with my eye has been very distressing

00:47because I'm used to getting up in the morning, looking at all the newspapers,

00:51looking at the charts, looking at everything, how the world is doing creatively.

00:57And I've lost that for the time being.

00:59It's been seven weeks since I've been able to see out of this.

01:02But the prospect is good.

01:05I had a hell of a time with this right eye.

01:07It was a hell of a bug that got into it.

01:12And sometimes I feel forlorn.

01:14But most of the time, I feel grateful that I still got it.

01:17And I just have to be patient.

01:18And I've had so much support.

01:21So I'm always optimistic.

01:24But I was really...

01:27Last night when I was walking around backstage,

01:29when I'm walking around at home, I know where I'm going.

01:31Last night, backstage, all the, you know,

01:33getting under the no lights and everything.

01:35I found it really quite hard.

01:38But I had to be here to support this film.

01:40I had to be here.

01:41It's the first time I've been out for seven weeks.

01:44And it was worth it to support RJ and David

01:50and be here for it because I'm so proud of it.