Sir Elton John has been honored in innumerable methods through the span of his half-century profession. However later this 12 months Madame Tussauds London pays tribute to the Rocket Man with a one-of-a-kind, gravity-defying determine that pays homage to the pop icon’s wild and wooly Nineteen Seventies heyday.
In accordance with a press launch, the most recent rendering of John will honor the last decade of his rise to superstardom through a mannequin that has the singer doing one among his patented keyboard handstands, along with his legs within the air above his head and his arms firmly planted on the black and whites.
“We’ve been creating figures of Sir Elton John for the reason that starting of his legendary profession, and he has at all times impressed us to go above and past in our creations,” mentioned Madame Tussauds London common supervisor Steve Blackburn of the singer who has labored with the museum since 1976, when he was the mannequin for its first-ever speaking, smiling piece. “Again within the Nineteen Seventies, his first determine was our first speaking determine, and in 2024 we’re decided to go large once more. The determine’s iconic, gravity-defying pose will seize the essence of Elton’s legendary early performances in a method that solely Madame Tussauds London can. This will probably be our most structurally complicated determine thus far in our centuries-old historical past and it will be an actual showstopper once we unveil it later this 12 months.”
Madame Tussauds launched behind-the-scenes pictures from the creation of the determine on Wednesday (Oct. 16), which it known as one of many “most complicated structural designs built-in right into a determine thus far.” The primary-stage clay sculpt finds John sporting a white toile jumpsuit in addition to a pair of the singer’s signature outsized eyeglasses as he hovers within the air, mouth agape; the ultimate costuming will arrive with the completed determine.
The brand new John creation will launch at Madame Tussauds London’s “Inconceivable Pageant” music zone later this 12 months, taking its place alongside famous person recreations of Beyoncé, Ed Sheeran, Ariana Grande, Amy Winehouse, David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust, Queen’s Freddie Mercury and extra.
The upcoming John documentary, Elton John: By no means Too Late, will debut on Disney+ on Dec. 13.
Take a look at a picture of the brand new John determine under.
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