Sir Elton John has entertained huge crowds during his career. But one of his most popular performances of late is perhaps one he'd rather forget - not least because he didn't plan it. The legendary pop star was left red-faced when he spectacularly fell off his chair during a tennis event at London's Royal Albert Hall on Sunday.

The Your Song crooner was at the Statoil Masters event when the gaffe happened, much to the delight of online onlookers.
There were audible gasps from the crowd as the 67-year-old singer fell backwards off his chair as he watched Team Elton John take on Team Billie Jean King in a tennis exhibition event held to raise funds for his AIDS Foundation.

But Elton quickly brushed himself off and got back to his feet before watching his team suffer a 22-16 defeat as former British No 1 Tim Henman rolled back the years with a clinching victory against former US Open champion Andy Roddick.

Within hours a Vine clip of the incident was watched nearly half a million times, which sees him sweep two other empty deck chairs away with him - before being helped up by stewards.
Adding to the humiliation, a host of sporting stars including John McEnroe, Martina Hingis and Heather Watson saw it happen.

Naturally, Twitter is alight with jokes about his track 'I'm Still Standing' not to mention one of his famous lyrics 'It's a little but funny'. One person even described the clip as perhaps the 'funniest Vine clip of the year'.
Fortunately, the singing superstar did not appear to be seriously hurt.