ABBA’s Benny Anderson and Elton John have worked together on a new song mash-up for TikTok.The pair remotely performed a live rendition of each of their songs before they were blended in the TikTok audio app.Anderson played ABBA’s 1979 hit ‘Chiquitita’ while John played his 1973 smash, ‘Bennie And The Jets’.Anderson can be seen sat at his piano playing the opening bars to ‘Chiquitita’ before it later pans to John who is sat at his piano playing ‘Benny And The Jets’.“Heard that ‘Chiquitita’ was trending again… with Elton John!” the caption on the official ABBA TikTok account reads.The TikTok user captioned the source video: “For all your gorgeous summer transitions.” The audio has since been used in over 54,000 videos on the app.Check the video out here:Heard that ’Chiquitita’ was trending again…with @Elton John! #ABBA #pop #piano ♬ Benny and Chiquitita – reymifasol John recently began the UK leg of his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour in Norwich on June 15.
Having first announced the first UK dates for his final ever run of shows in 2018, he had been set to play a run of rescheduled UK headline dates between October and December 2021.
However, he was forced to postpone those gigs to 2023 after sustaining a hip injury from an “awkward” fall.John will have played over 300 shows across five continents by the time the tour concludes in July next year.In an NME cover story last October, John said that this tour will really be his last, explaining: “It’s something I wanna finish.
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