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Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John is a British singer, composer and pianist. An influential figure in popular culture, he is known for his flamboyant fashion, showmanship and songwriting partnership with the lyricist Bernie Taupin. With over 300 million records sold worldwide, he is one of the best-selling music artists of all time. An EGOT winner, John's accolades include five Grammy Awards, two Academy Aw…
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entertainment · British musician and songwriter (born 1947) · singer · composer · film actor · pianist · recording artist · HIV/AIDS activist · musician · lyricist · also Elton John, Lord Choc Ice, Tripe, Elton Hercules John né Reginald Kenneth Dwight, Rockaday Johnnie, Prince Rhino
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2026· 22 entries
“Today we celebrate her life and I dedicate this song to her.”
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“In years to come, if you ever get tired of running the country, you can come and work for me producing TV shows.”
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“I was one of those children who could just about get away without practising and still pass, scrape through the grades.”
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Far Out Magazine: The “worst” show Elton John wanted to die out: “No experience”
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AOL: Commonly Misunderstood Elton John Lyrics You May Be Singing Wrong
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Yahoo: 50 Years Ago Today: ‘The New York Times’ Calls Elton John ‘Wallpaper Music’
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The Irish Times: Elton John collaborator Jack Coulter: ‘I was a young child when I first heard colours’
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Far Out Magazine: The “sexy” 1971 song Elton John considers his finest hour: “That’s the best”
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Published video “The summer holiday has officially started ☀️”.
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Published video “Celebrating one billion streams of “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart”!”.
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Published video “This track is one of the few times I ever sat down and tried to write a hit single...”.
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Published video “Kiki Dee was in the country so naturally she joined me at Wembley for a rare performance 💔”.
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Published video “Elton John, Kiki Dee - Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (Live at Empire Pool, Wembley, 1977)”.
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Published video “Mexico, I can’t wait to see you again!”.
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Published video “'The Bitch is Back' with the legendary Billie Jean King live at Dodger Stadium, 1975 🏟️”.
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Published video “Your Song”.
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Published video “Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me”.
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Published video “Signed Sealed Delivered (I'm Yours)”.
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Published video “United We Stand”.
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Published video “In The Summertime”.
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Published video “Elton John - Celebrate with Elton John Zero”.
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2025· 6 entries
Published video “Up Around The Bend”.
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Published video “Thank you to @officialcaradelevingne for being such an incredible me!”.
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Published video “Don’t think your comments go unnoticed… 🧼”.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “singers Dolly Parton, Adam Lambert, Elton John, Barry Gibb, Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Vince Gill, sports figures Sam Pittman, Cade Klubnik, or Marc Marquez honored Charlie Kirk by calling for a moment of silence or by attending his funeral” Viet Spam.
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Released album “Who Believes in Angels?”.
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Reported claimRated False. Sir Elton's comments, along with those of other celebrities, have been taken out of context. · AAP
AAP rated the claim “Elton John has endorsed Donald Trump.” False. Sir Elton's comments, along with those of other celebrities, have been taken out of context..
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2024· 7 entries
Released album “Never Too Late: The Deeper Cuts”.
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Released album “Never Too Late: Soundtrack to the Disney+ Documentary”.
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USA Today rated the claim “Photo shows Elton John wearing a MAGA coat” Altered.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “The Rock and Elton John endorsed Donald Trump” No Endorsement.
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Photo shows Elton John wearing a “MAGA” jacket.” False.
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Awarded Gershwin Prize (2024).
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On 1 December 2024 John revealed that he had partially lost his eyesight.
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2023· 2 entries
Snopes rated the claim “In an interview that published in June 2023, Elton John said he would no longer perform in the U.S. due to anti-LGBTQ+ legislation.” False.
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“Good evening Stockholm, well this is it”
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2022· 4 entries
USA Today rated the claim “President Joe Biden blamed Elton John for AIDS” False.
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PolitiFact rated the claim ““Joe Biden blamed Elton John for AIDS.”” False.
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“I knew that my lifestyle was crazy and out of order. ... I cannot thank them enough, because without them, I”
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“s secret affair with a younger colleague was”
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2021· 3 entries
Released album “The Lockdown Sessions”.
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Won National Humanities Medal (2021).
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Released album “Regimental Sgt. Zippo”.
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2020· 6 entries
Released album “Jewel Box”.
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Awarded Companion of Honour (2020).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Original Song for (I'm Gonna) Love Me Again (2020).
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John helped to pay for Woodrow's medical fees upon her request, despite having lost contact with her 50 years previously
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"I was used to making records under the haze of alcohol or drugs, and here I was, 100% sober, so it was tough
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Blauel sued John for writing about their relationship in his 2019 Me: Elton John Official Autobiography, which she claimed broke the terms of their divorce agreement
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2019· 4 entries
Released album “'Rocketman' Celebration Songs Sung By Elton John”.
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Released album “The Many Faces of Elton John”.
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Reported net worth: £320M (as of 2019).
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We were both bulimic." In a July 2019 Instagram post, John stated he had been sober for 29 years.
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2018· 2 entries
Snopes rated the claim “In a 2018 rally, President Trump compared his mouth to Elton John’s organ, adding that the brain is “hopefully attached to the mouth.”” True.
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Awarded Crystal Award (2018).
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2017· 2 entries
Released album “Diamonds”.
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“ve never ever had an argument professionally or personally, which is extraordinary because most songwriters sometimes split up because they get jealous of each other. And it”
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2016· 1 entry
Released album “Wonderful Crazy Night”.
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2014· 2 entries
It had grossed over $6 billion and became the top-earning title in box-office history for both stage productions and films, surpassing the record previously held by Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical The Phantom of the O
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When same-sex marriage was legalised in England and Wales
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2013· 4 entries
Released album “The Diving Board”.
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Awarded Johnny Mercer Award (2013).
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“s side project, Them Crooked Vultures, and had phoned Homme to ask whether he could perform on the album. In September 2013 John received the first Brits Icon Award for his”
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Collaborated with the rock band Queens of the Stone Age on their sixth studio album,
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2012· 2 entries
Released album “5 Classic Albums: 1970–1973”.
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“There is a world of difference between calling someone your”
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2011· 1 entry
John performed vocals on "Snowed in at Wheeler Street" with Kate Bush for her album 50 Words for Snow
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2010· 2 entries
Released album “The Union”.
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Invited him to his Hawaii studio to play piano and sing on "All of the Lights"
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2009· 3 entries
Released album “2 for 1: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road + Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player”.
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“s 2016 European Union referendum on Instagram, sharing an image with the words”
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John accepted Jerry Cantrell's invitation to collaborate with his band Alice in Chains
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2007· 2 entries
Released album “Rocket Man: The Definitive Hits”.
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Released album “Rocket Man - The Definitive Hits”.
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2006· 7 entries
Released album “The Captain & The Kid”.
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Awarded Disney Legends (2006).
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Told Rolling Stone that he planned for his next record to be in R&B and hip hop
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“I want to work with Pharrell Williams, Timbaland, Snoop [Dogg], Kanye [West], Eminem and just see what happens”
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “Legendary Covers as Sung by Elton John”.
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“If I was to say what I am, I”
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2005· 1 entry
Entered a civil partnership with his long-term partner, the Canadian filmmaker David Furnish
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2004· 1 entry
Released album “Peachtree Road”.
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2002· 1 entry
Released album “Greatest Hits 1970–2002”.
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2001· 1 entry
Released album “Songs From the West Coast”.
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2000· 2 entries
Awarded MusiCares Person of the Year (2000).
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Awarded Tony Award for Best Original Score for Aida (2000).
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1999· 2 entries
Awarded Grammy Legend Award (1999).
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With the lyricist Tim Rice, for which they received the Tony Award for Best Original Score at the 54th Tony Awards, and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album at the 43rd Annual Grammy Awards
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1998· 3 entries
And was appointed a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in 2020
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Released album “Cotton Fields - 16 Legendary Covers From 1969/70”.
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John was recognised for his services to charity twice, receiving a knighthood from Elizabeth II in 1998 and being appointed by her to be a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in 2020.
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1997· 5 entries
Released album “The Lion King: Original Broadway Cast Recording”.
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Released album “The Big Picture”.
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Two close friends died: the designer Gianni Versace was murdered on 15 July, and Diana, Princess of Wales, died in a Paris car crash on 31 August
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“Opis: z wywiadu dla Radiowej Trójki – Londyn, 24 czerwca 1997.”
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John held a 50th birthday party, costumed as Louis XIV, with 500 friends
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1995· 6 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for Can You Feel the Love Tonight (1995).
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Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1995).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Original Song for Can You Feel the Love Tonight (1995).
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Released album “Made in England”.
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Released the album Made in England (number 3)
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“Opis: z wywiadu dla Radiowej Trójki – Poznań, 18 czerwca 1995.”
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1994· 12 entries
Released album “Le Roi Lion”.
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Released album “Der König der Löwen”.
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Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1994).
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Released album “The Lion King: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”.
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Released album “Classic Elton John”.
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Released album “Reg Dwight’s Piano Goes Pop”.
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Released album “Saturday Sun Sessions”.
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Released album “Król lew”.
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John was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Guns N' Roses' frontman Axl Rose
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Released album “Chartbusters Go Pop!!”.
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Released album “Lejonkungen”.
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Released album “O Rei Leão”.
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1993· 3 entries
Released album “Duets”.
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Awarded Officer of Arts and Letters (1993).
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Released Duets, which featured collaborations with 15 artists, including Tammy Wynette and RuPaul
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1992· 10 entries
Released album “Rare Masters”.
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Released album “The One”.
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Released album “Dick James Demos, Volume 2”.
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John released the US number 8 album The One, featuring the hit song "The One"
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Established the Elton John AIDS Foundation, which has raised over £300 million since its inception, and a year later he began hosting his annual AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Party, which has since become one of the
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Released album “Songbook”.
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Released album “Greatest Hits 1976-1986”.
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Told Rolling Stone in another interview that he was "quite comfortable about being gay"
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In 1992, after losing two friends – (the HIV/AIDS spokesman Ryan White and his fellow-musician Freddie Mercury) to AIDS in the span of a year – John founded the Elton John AIDS Foundation, an organisation which has raised over $600 million to support HIV-related programmes in 55 countries.
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Released album “Super Stars Best Collection”.
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1991· 2 entries
Released album “Love Songs”.
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Released album “The Rock Collection: Elton John”.
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1990· 3 entries
Released album “The Very Best of Elton John”.
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Released album “To Be Continued…”.
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John achieved his first solo UK number one hit single, with "Sacrifice" (coupled with "Healing Hands") from the previous year's album Sleeping with the Past; it stayed at the top spot for five weeks
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1989· 2 entries
Released album “Sleeping With the Past”.
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Released album “The Collection”.
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1988· 4 entries
Released album “Reg Strikes Back”.
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Released album “A Arte De Elton John”.
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“She was the classiest woman I”
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John performed five sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden in New York City, giving him 26 for his career
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1987· 10 entries
Released album “Greatest Hits, Volume III: 1979–1987”.
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Awarded Grammy Awards (1987).
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Released album “The Very Best of Elton John, Part 2”.
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Released album “Honky Cat”.
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“I'm Still Standing. (ang.)”
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“Nie lubię programów typu „Mam talent”. Gdybym w którymś wystąpił, pewnie bym odpadł.”
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Released album “Your Song”.
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“I'm getting bored being part of mankind. There's not a lot to do no more. This race is a waste of time. People rushing everywhere. Swarming around like flies. Think I'll buy a forty four. Give 'em all a surprise. Think I'm gonna kill myself (...) What a scandal if I died. (ang.)”
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Released album “Элтон Джон / Ансамбль “Дип Перпл””.
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“Opis: po wezwaniu przez Eltona Johna do bojkotu produktów Dolce & Gabbana po wypowiedziach Domenico Dolce na temat zapłodnienia pozaustrojowego.”
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1986· 2 entries
Released album “Leather Jackets”.
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John is well known for his philanthropic efforts, being involved in charity fundraising events since 1986.
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1985· 4 entries
Released album “Ice on Fire”.
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John was one of the many performers at Live Aid, held at Wembley Stadium
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Released album “Biggest”.
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Released album “Your Songs”.
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1984· 2 entries
Released album “Breaking Hearts”.
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Released Breaking Hearts, which featured the song "Sad Songs (Say So Much)", a number five hit in the US and number seven in the UK
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1983· 4 entries
Released album “Too Low for Zero”.
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Released album “The New Collection”.
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Released album “The History of Rock, Volume Nineteen”.
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Released album “The Superior Sound of Elton John: 1970-1975”.
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1982· 3 entries
Released album “Jump Up!”.
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Released album “Your Songs: Die große Edition seiner romantischen Welthits”.
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The biggest hit from which was "Blue Eyes"
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1981· 3 entries
Released album “The Album”.
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Released album “Elton John (La grande storia del rock)”.
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Released album “The Fox”.
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1980· 4 entries
Released album “21 at 33”.
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Released album “Milestones”.
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Was a significant career boost, aided by his biggest hit in four years, "Little Jeannie" (number 3 US), with the lyrics by Gary Osborne
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Released album “Lady Samantha”.
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1979· 3 entries
Released album “Victim of Love”.
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John and Taupin reunited, although they did not collaborate on a full album until 1983's Too Low For Zero
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Accompanied by Ray Cooper, John became one of the first Western artists to tour the Soviet Union and Israel
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1978· 2 entries
Released album “A Single Man”.
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With a new lyricist, Gary Osborne; the album produced no singles that made the top 20 in the US, but the two singles from the album released in the UK, "Part-Time Love" and "Song for Guy", both made the top 20 there, wit
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1977· 3 entries
Released album “The Story of Pop”.
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Recorded with the American soul producer Thom Bell
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Released album “Elton John’s Greatest Hits, Volume II”.
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1976· 4 entries
Released album “Blue Moves”.
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Was "Don't Go Breaking My Heart", a duet with Kiki Dee that topped a number of charts, including the UK, the US, Australia, France and Canada
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“quite comfortable about being gay”
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“But they should draw the line at goats.”
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1975· 5 entries
Released album “Rock of the Westies”.
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Released album “Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy”.
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Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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By 1975 the pressures of stardom had begun to take a serious toll on John.
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John played a two-night, four-show stand at the Troubadour
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1974· 5 entries
Released album “Caribou”.
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MCA reportedly secured a $25 million insurance policy on his life
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Becoming John's third number one in the UK and topping the charts in the US, Canada and Australia
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MCA released Elton John's Greatest Hits, a UK and US number one that is certified Diamond by the RIAA for US sales of 17 million copies
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John collaborated with John Lennon on his cover of the Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", the B-side of which was Lennon's "One Day at a Time"
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1973· 2 entries
Released album “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”.
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Released album “Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player”.
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1972· 4 entries
Released album “Honky Château”.
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John performed at the Royal Variety Performance, where he was upstaged by the dancing of Larry Smith, the drummer with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
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Honky Château became John's first US number-one album, spending five weeks at the top of the Billboard 200, and began a streak of seven consecutive US number-one albums
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Davey Johnstone joined the Elton John Band on guitar and backing vocals
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1971· 3 entries
Released album “Madman Across the Water”.
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Released album “"Friends" Original Soundtrack Recording”.
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Released album “A Very Special Collection”.
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1970· 3 entries
Released album “Tumbleweed Connection”.
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Released album “Elton John”.
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Right after his first US shows in Los Angeles, at the age of 23, John lost his virginity to and started his first gay relationship with John Reid, the Tamla Motown label manager for the UK, who later became John's manage
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1969· 3 entries
Released album “Empty Sky”.
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With Quaye, the drummer Roger Pope and the bassist Tony Murray, John recorded another single, "Lady Samantha", and an album, Empty Sky
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John provided piano for Roger Hodgson on his first released single, "Mr
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1968· 2 entries
The album was shelved in favour of 1969's Empty Sky, and released vinyl-only in 2021 for Record Store Day
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And over the next two years wrote material for various artists, among them Roger Cook and Lulu
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1967· 2 entries
John answered an advertisement in the British music paper New Musical Express, placed by Ray Williams, then the A&R manager for Liberty Records
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Recorded the first John/Taupin song, "Scarecrow"
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1966· 1 entry
The band became Long John Baldry's supporting band and played 16 times at the Marquee Club
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1962· 1 entry
John and some friends formed a band named Bluesology
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1947· 1 entry
Born 1947-03-25.
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