Listen to elton john i guess thats why they call it the blues

The name of this great American music probably originated with the 17th-century English expression “the blue devils,” for the intense visual hallucinations that can accompany severe alcohol withdrawal. Shortened over time to “the blues,” it came to mean a state of agitation or depression.

But “Finish Line” marks the first time Wonder has played keyboards and harmonica and sung on a John track.

75 years (March 25, 1947)Elton John / Agenull

John announced he was bisexual in 1976 and has been openly gay since 1988. He entered into a civil partnership with Canadian filmmaker David Furnish in 2005; they married after same-sex marriage became legal in England and Wales in 2014.