Elton John to perform in Russia - "I've got to go"

Mega superstar Elton John has announced he will honor a concert date in Russia later this year in spite of recent anti-gay "propaganda" laws:

The 66-year-old gay singer told The Guardian that the show must go on in Moscow this December, in order to support his LGBT fans who might be suffering “in an isolated situation.”

“I've got to go,” John said. “And I've got to think about what I'm going to say very carefully. There's two avenues of thought: Do you stop everyone going, ban all the artists coming in from Russia? But then you're really leaving the men and women who are gay and suffering under the antigay laws in an isolated situation. As a gay man, I can't leave those people on their own without going over there and supporting them. I don't know what's going to happen, but I've got to go.”