Elton John says goodbye to more than 50 years of touring

The Rocket Man retreats from the road.

Elton John played what he says was the last show on the last tour of his career on Saturday night.

According to his website, the iconic, award-winning musician took the stage for what is believed to be the last time ever as a touring artist in Stockholm, Sweden.

In the caption of a video posted to his official Instagram Saturday, the British music legend wrote: “What a journey this tour has been and now we are at the end of it. Tonight is the last night.”

The video features an excerpt from a 2018 interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper in which the musician announced his retirement from touring. “It’s the last time I’m going to tour and travel the world,” John says in the clip.

The five-time Grammy winner’s “Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour” began in 2018 and was originally scheduled to end in 2021, but was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The tour has been billed as his last after more than five decades on the road.

The tour featured more than 300 shows and was attended by more than 6 million fans around the world, according to John’s Instagram video. The 76-year-old musician headlined the Glastonbury Festival as his final UK stop on his farewell tour.

During his 2018 interview with Cooper, John attributed his retirement from life on the road to his decision to focus on his family. The musician has two sons with husband David Furnish.

“We had kids and had our lives changed and in 2015 we sat down with their school schedule and we said I’m going to miss this too much,” he told Cooper at the time.

He said at the time that although he had finished touring, he would continue to work on new music.