- Born
- Birth nameReginald Kenneth Dwight
- Nicknames
- Sharon
- The Rocket Man
- The Pinball Wizard
- Height5′ 7¾″ (1.72 m)
- Sir Elton John is one of pop music's great survivors. Born 25 March, 1947, as Reginald Kenneth Dwight, he started to play the piano at the early age of four. At the age of 11, he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music. His first band was called Bluesology. He later auditioned (unsuccessfully) as lead singer for the progressive rock bands King Crimson and Gentle Giant. Dwight teamed up with lyricist Bernie Taupin and changed his name to Elton John (merging the names of saxophonist Elton Dean and Long John Baldry). The duo wrote songs for Lulu and Roger Cook. In the early 1970s, he recorded the concept album "Tumbleweed Connection." He became the most successful pop artist of the 1970s, and he has survived many different pop fads including punk, the New Romantics and Britpop to remain one of Britain's most internationally acclaimed musicians.
Elton John announced he was a bisexual in 1976, and in 1984, he married Renate Blauel. The marriage lasted four years before he finally came to terms with the fact that he was actually homosexual. In the 1970s and 1980s, he suffered from drug and alcohol addiction and bulimia but came through it. He is well known as a campaigner for AIDS research and he keeps his finger on the pulse of modern music, enjoying artists such as Eminem, Radiohead, Coldplay and Robbie Williams. He was knighted in 1997.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- SpousesDavid Furnish(December 21, 2005 - present) (2 children)Renate Blauel(February 14, 1984 - November 18, 1988) (divorced)
- ChildrenZachary Jackson Levon Furnish-JohnElijah Joseph Daniel John
- ParentsStanley DwightSheila Dwight
- RelativesGeoff Dwight(Half Sibling)
- His outrageous costumes and spectacles.
- The earring on his right ear.
- The gap between his teeth.
- His rich falsetto voice.
- His hair transplant, which is often red.
- In 1974, during one of his concerts at Madison Square Garden, John Lennon joined him on stage to perform three songs. This was part of a bet that if Lennon's song "Whatever Gets You Through the Night" went to #1, he would join Elton on stage. This proved to be Lennon's last on-stage performance.
- Stevie Wonder played harmonica on his song "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues".
- He is a reformed drug addict, alcoholic and bulimic. He also has epilepsy.
- He started wearing glasses to copy one of his idols, Buddy Holly. After a while, his eyes adjusted to the lenses and he's worn glasses ever since.
- He is the Godfather of John Lennon's son, Sean Lennon, Elizabeth Hurley's son Damian and David Beckham and Victoria Beckham's sons Brooklyn and Romeo.
- I haven't made a good album in a long while. Not since 1976 and Blue Moves.
- If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.
- [after being asked about his sexuality in the 1970s] I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats, though.
- Nowadays, record companies want the quick buck from the Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, S Club 7, Steps. They've always been around, I'm not knocking the music perhaps, but it's like packets of cereal. There are too many of them, too many of them are just mediocre. And I think it damages real people's chance, real talent, of getting airplay. It's just fodder.
- There's so much you're expected to do and you follow a pattern. You make a record, you do a video. I like to break the rules a little bit more and I did in the 1970s, I should try a little bit more now.
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