Elton John has been plagued by a series of health problems in recent years. But in an interview with Good morning America On Monday (November 25), the indefatigable Rock and Roll Hall of Fame icon said an eye infection he suffered this summer has turned into vision loss in his right eye, affecting his ability to create.
John, 77, told Robin Roberts that “it's been a while” since he's been working on new music, something he couldn't understand due to his poor eyesight. “Unfortunately I lost the sight in my right eye in July because I had an infection in the South of France,” John said in the interview in which his eyes were somewhat killed by a pair of green-rimmed glasses with a yellow tint. the lenses. “It's been four months since I can't see. And my left eye isn't the best.”
Roberts flew to England to talk to John about his new doctor, Never too latenoting that at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year he presented a new album, a project whose future is now up in the air due to his poor eyesight. “There is hope and encouragement that it will be OK,” John said. “But I'm kind of stuck in the moment, because I can do something like that, but go into the studio and record… I don't know. Because I can't see a verse, for starters.'
John said he is working to get his sight back, but the infection has “put him down” for now because he can't see or follow anything. When Roberts suggested that, after all his health struggles, John was “still standing” – as he sang on his 1983 hit 'I'm Still Standing' – the singer had to agree. “I'm so lucky. I am the luckiest man in the world,” he said.
John has released 32 studio albums during his half-century career, with the most recent in 2021 Constitutional Sch. Zippoa Record Store Day reissue of a shelf album from the late 1960s.
John has been open in the past about his various health struggles, including hearing loss, knee and hip replacement surgery, as well as prostate cancer and having a pacemaker implanted to treat an irregular heartbeat. He said recently Rolling Stone: “I have no tonsils, adenoids, or appendix,” preventing his many operations. “I don't have a patron. I don't have a right hip or a left knee or a right knee. In fact, the only thing I have left is my left hip.”
Never Too Late, directed by RJ Cutler and John's husband David Furnish, will begin streaming on Disney+ on December 13.
Watch the full interview here.
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