Elton John set to perform at the White House on Friday

WASHINGTON, Sept 20 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will host British rocker Elton John for a efficiency on Friday on the White Home, in accordance with a press launch.

The “Tiny Dancer” and “Crocodile Rock” hit maker, 75, will headline an occasion the place Biden and First Woman Jill Biden are additionally set to talk, the White Home stated on Tuesday.

John beforehand carried out on the White Home in the course of the Clinton administration in 1998. He declined an invite to play on the 2017 inauguration of Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump.

The occasion’s title, “A Night time When Hope and Historical past Rhyme,” is drawn from a poem by the Irish author Seamus Heaney, who Biden typically quotes.

The occasion will “have fun the unifying and therapeutic energy of music, commend the life and work of Sir Elton John, and honor the on a regular basis history-makers within the viewers, together with academics, nurses, frontline employees, psychological well being advocates, college students, LGBTQ+ advocates and extra.”

White Home employees have been establishing staging on Tuesday whereas cooks, technicians and different professionals acquired exams for COVID-19 in preparation for the occasion.

Biden wrote emotionally in his 2017 memoir “Promise Me, Dad: A Yr of Hope, Hardship, and Goal” about singing John’s “Crocodile Rock” to his late son Beau as a baby after which once more years later when he was dying from most cancers.

“I began singing the lyrics to Beau, quietly, so simply the 2 of us might hear it,” Biden wrote. “Beau did not open his eyes, however I might see by way of my very own tears that he was smiling.”

Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt
Modifying by Marguerita Choy

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