Elton John was flooded with well wishes from his celebrity friends as he celebrated his 78th birthday on Tuesday.

The singer was overcome with emotion in the days before as he revealed he cried for 45 minutes while recording a song for his new album over fears he ‘doesn’t have much time left’.

However, his famous friends all rallied around him as they took to Instagram to flood him with heartfelt birthday messages following his emotional confession.

Susannah Constantine shared a sweet selfie of herself planting a kiss on Elton’s cheek as she sent the music legend some kind words.

‘Happy Happy Everything Day @eltonjohn. Through thick and thin #wingman #wingwoman,’ she wrote alongside the image.

Meanwhile, DJ Fat Tony – whose real name is Anthony Marnoch – also took to his Stories to share a picture of himself smiling alongside Elton.

Elton John (pictured in July 2023) was flooded with well wishes from his celebrity friends as he celebrated his 78th birthday on Tuesday

Susannah Constantine shared a sweet selfie of herself planting a kiss on Elton’s cheek as she sent the music legend some kind words to her ‘wingman’

‘Happy birthday @eltonjohn,’ he simply wrote in a caption as Elton re-shared the post to his own Stories. 

Ahead of his birthday, Elton told how he reflected on his own mortality while working on his new album Who Believes In Angels?, slated for release on April 4.

The music legend shared that he cried for 45 minutes while working on one of his new songs and began to fear he ‘doesn’t have much time left’.

Elton, who completed his farewell tour in 2023, previously shared he’s suffered from sight loss after an infection left him blind in his right eye and with ‘limited vision’ in his left.

Speaking on the Smartless podcast, Elton revealed his heart-wrenching reaction came when he was performing his new track When This Old World Is Done With Me.

He said: ‘I wrote a song at the end of the album and I just get the lyrics, Bernie Taupin’s lyrics called When This Old World Is Done With Me. And so I’m writing the verse, like, ”Oh, this is really pretty”.

‘And then I get to the chorus and of course it’s about my death. And when you get to my age, which is near 100, you think, ”How much time have I got left?”’

Elton admitted he became very emotional while thinking about his husband David Furnish and their two sons Zachary, 14, and Elijah, 12. 

Meanwhile, DJ Fat Tony – whose real name is Anthony Marnoch – also took to his Stories to share a picture of himself smiling alongside Elton

His birthday comes after Elton revealed he cried for 45 minutes while recording a song for his new album over fears he ‘doesn’t have much time left’ 

Elton admitted he became very emotional while thinking about his husband David Furnish and their two sons Zachary, 14, and Elijah, 12 (all pictured on March 2)  

He went on: ‘You’ve got children, you’ve got a wonderful husband, you just think about mortality. And so when I got to the chorus, I just broke down for 45 minutes and it’s all on film.’

Elton said he ‘cried hard’ while working on the album with musician Brandi Carlile, and his reaction was recorded in his documentary Elton John: Never Too Late, which was released in October.

Brandi continued: ‘I want everybody to see it because it’s really human, like deeply flawed and embarrᴀssing. 

‘And the kind of s**t that you do when you forget that there is a camera on is what’s really interesting.

‘He got to the end of that chorus and his voice started to shake and I thought, ‘Oh, he’s going, like he’s going to really go’. And he went into a real moment.’