16. Sir Elton Hercules John
14,739 days
One of the most featured artists on this site. Elton made it clear that the Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour would be his final one. A tour I had seen him 3 times on. Another 3 times in the 1980s plus a couple more in between when I did not have a camera. One of those two occasions he stomped off stage after not much more than an hour after the press had intruded in his personal life earlier in the week - The good news was that this was one of very few occasions across my professional life I had not paid for a ticket. I was their courtesy of a large professional firm that I had done many £millions of business with over the years. He was exceptional in those appearances in the 1980s and indeed the final tour
Elton has not completely retired though and he continues to appear at one-off events. I think the chances of me getting a ticket for any such appearance is quite low though. In terms of the Changes league table, unlike that stairlift at the end of the show that means the only way is down....