Talking of old timers touring, Elton John has admitted he is finding touring exhausting and is looking forward to his retirement. Elton is contracted to perform 75 concerts over the next three years at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, but he told Femalefirst that he's finding it heavy going: "I'm not going to be like The Who and do a farewell tour for the next 15 years, but I am finding it harder, emotionally, to stay on the road. There will come a time when my lifestyle has to change. Why I'm still trying to prove something to myself, I don't know. I have a lovely private life with David but we don't spend enough time together."
Elton also spoke about opening a retirement home for him and all his showbiz pals, including the Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant and artist Sam Taylor Wood. He said: "I always wanted to buy a big retirement home and live in it with all my friends. An old department store in the King's Road would be perfect. I could run the CD shop, Neil Tennant the bookshop and Sam Taylor-Wood the art shop. Either that or buy a big chateau in France and just walk around in kaftans eating doughnuts all day."