Some pop stars have built their careers and legends on hits, concerts and albums, but also on improbable anecdotes… Like Elton John.
Be careful who you prank and in what context. Elton John paid the price for an improbable hoax, attempted on his friend, another star, Iggy Pop. In his autobiography called I, Elton John, released in 2019 and counting incredible life stories, Reginald Kenneth Dwight, better known as Elton John, recounts this adventure of the 1970s. We are then in Atlanta, United States States, during a concert by the Stooges, an American rock group formed in 1967 and led by Iggy Pop.
Elton John, whose love of costumes is no mystery, decides to appear on stage by surprise behind his friend… disguised as a gorilla “to surprise Iggy Pop” and “add to the ambient bazaar”, says the singer in his autobiography. But of course, not everything went as planned.
Elton John says: “If you’re ever going to walk into a scene dressed as a gorilla to surprise someone, always check beforehand that the person concerned is not so soaked in acid that they will not be able to make the difference between a guy in disguise and a real gorilla. I understood it the moment my appearance was greeted not by bars of laughter, but by a panicked Iggy Pop, running to his heels and letting out loud screams. .” A sequence that must have marked more than one spectator …
