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[123], In August 2003, John's fifth UK number one single, "Are You Ready for Love", topped the charts. [81] In 1984, he released Breaking Hearts, which featured the song "Sad Songs (Say So Much)", number five in the US and number seven in the UK. [237], Elton John became the chairman and director of Watford F.C. [34][35] A stint with a short-lived group called the Corvettes rounded out his time. [30], John's mother, though strict with her son, was more vivacious than her husband, and something of a free spirit. The album also featured the single "Believe". [239] Ten years later, John repurchased the club from Petchey and once again became chairman. "[140], John said he had long admired Cantrell and couldn't resist the offer. It came sixth of six songs. Disney's The Lion King has captivated the imagination of audiences around the world and now, for the first time ever, you have the opportunity to produce this one-of-a-kind musical in your school. [219] Putin's call came just a few days after two pranksters phoned John, pretending to be Putin and his spokesman, and causing John to erroneously thank Putin for the call on John's Instagram account. Jeff Woolf, Scott Jennings and James L. Halperin (2004). John has received five Grammy Awards, five Brit Awards; including for Outstanding Contribution to Music; two Academy Awards, two Golden Globes, a Tony Award, a Disney Legends Award, and the Kennedy Center Honor. Sir Elton Hercules John CH CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947)[2] is an English singer, songwriter, pianist, and composer. [58] "Step into Christmas" was released as a stand-alone single in November 1973, and appears in the album's 1995 remastered reissue. [131] West sampled John's "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" on his 2007 song "Good Morning" and in 2010 invited him to his Hawaii studio to play piano and sing on "All of the Lights". 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Later that year, in Lennon's last major live performance, the pair performed these two number-one hits, along with the Beatles' "I Saw Her Standing There", at Madison Square Garden in New York. When the two first met in 1967, they recorded the first Elton John/Bernie Taupin song, "Scarecrow". [258] In 2010, he received the PRS for Music Heritage Award, which was erected on The Namaste Lounge Pub in Northwood, London, where John performed his first gig. Lennon made the rare stage appearance with John and his band to keep the promise he had made that he would appear on stage with him if "Whatever Gets You Thru The Night" became a US number one single. Jerry Lee is a very intricate piano player and very skillful, but Little Richard is more of a pounder. "[146] He began his new show The Million Dollar Piano at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, on 28 September 2011,[147] and performed it there for the next three years. A Rolls Royce "Phantom" drophead coupe and a piece of Tracey Emin's artwork both raised £800,000 for the charity fund, with the total amount raised reaching £3.5 million. Elton John's Photos Seized", "Classics.com Elton John's Cars to be auctioned at Christie's", "Elton John turns rags to riches for charity", "Larry King Live: Interview With Elton John Aired 25 January 2002", "Elton John Celebrates 29 Years of Sobriety in Touching Post: 'I Was a Broken Man, "Elton John's Christmas Commercial Is an Emotional Experience", "Snake Charmer-Monty Python And The Holy Grail was Terry Gilliam's first film as a director. [239] Although no longer the majority shareholder, John still holds a significant financial interest. [236], —Elton John on his emotions during the FA Cup Final's traditional pre-match hymn. I didn't ever want to be anything else. [181], As part of his farewell tour, in June 2019, John was presented with France's highest civilian award, the Legion d'honneur, by President Emmanuel Macron during a ceremony at the Élysée Palace in Paris. John stated, "She was the classiest woman I’ve ever met, but it wasn’t meant to be. "[230] In a 29 July 2019 Instagram post, John stated he had been sober for 29 years. We were both bulimic. [245] He said in his Instagram post, "In May 2018, I visited [Armenia] and was overwhelmed with the kindness and humanity shown to me by the Armenian people. [141][142] "I was kind of surprised that Alice in Chains would ask me to do anything. Everyone who attended the performances received a hardbound "yearbook" of the band's history. Olsson left the band in 1984 but rejoined in 2000. Greenwood Press, The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll. [79] He married his close friend and sound engineer, Renate Blauel, on Valentine's Day 1984; the marriage lasted three years. [120], By this time, John disliked appearing in his own music videos; the video for "This Train Don't Stop There Anymore" featured Justin Timberlake portraying a young John, and the video for "I Want Love" featured Robert Downey, Jr. lip-syncing the song. This included a new collaboration with Kiki Dee, "True Love", which reached the Top 10 of the UK charts. [203] After same-sex marriage became legal in the United Kingdom in March 2014, John and Furnish married in Windsor, Berkshire, on 21 December 2014, the ninth anniversary of their civil partnership. [163] In June 2017, John appeared in the award-winning documentary The American Epic Sessions, directed by Bernard MacMahon. [166][167] Danny Eccleston in Mojo pointed out that "in one of the series’ most extraordinary moments, Elton John arrives toting a box-fresh lyric by Bernie Taupin and works it up in an instant, the song materializing in front of the viewers' eyes before John and Jack White go for the take. Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, I Feel Like a Bullet (In the Gun of Robert Ford), Sartorial Eloquence (Don't Ya Wanna Play This Game No More? [218] On 24 September 2015, the Associated Press reported that Putin called John and invited him to meet in the future to discuss LGBT rights in Russia. Taupin writes a set of lyrics, then sends them to John, who then writes the music and records the song. [225] The sale, which included a 1993 Jaguar XJ220, the most expensive at £234,750, and several Ferraris, Rolls-Royces, and Bentleys, raised nearly £2 million. [126] John's only theatrical project with Taupin is Lestat: The Musical, based on Anne Rice's vampire novels. [77] The album Jump Up! [152] An album containing remixes of songs that he recorded in the 1970s, Good Morning to the Night, was released in July 2012. John won the award for "Can You Feel the Love Tonight". [81] He played "Bennie and the Jets" and "Rocket Man"; then "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" with Kiki Dee for the first time since the Hammersmith Odeon on 24 December 1982; and introduced George Michael, still then of Wham!, to sing "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me". [231], A longtime tennis enthusiast, he wrote the song "Philadelphia Freedom" in tribute to his friend Billie Jean King's World Team Tennis team, the Philadelphia Freedoms. [63] She said Olsson would return to solo work and Murray would do session work "and possibly cut a solo album". The menu consisted of a truffle soufflé followed by surf and turf and a giant knickerbocker glory ice cream. [222] Aside from his main home, Woodside, in Old Windsor, Berkshire, John owns residences in Atlanta, London, Los Angeles, Nice and Venice. So the excitement is still the same as it was from day one and that's kept it fresh and it's kept it exciting. [248], John became more closely associated with AIDS charities following the deaths of his friends Ryan White in 1990 and Freddie Mercury in 1991, raising large amounts of money and using his public profile to raise awareness of the disease. During "Elton Week" in Los Angeles that year, he had a cocaine overdose. [148] Also in 2011, John performed vocals on "Snowed in at Wheeler Street" with Kate Bush for her album 50 Words for Snow. In 1997, John released the double A-side single "Something About the Way You Look Tonight"/"Candle in the Wind 1997" in dedication to the memory of Diana, Princess of Wales. That year, he also played piano on Kevin Ayers's Sweet Deceiver and was among the first and few white artists to appear on the African-American television series Soul Train. p. 88. [73] A disco-influenced album, Victim of Love, was poorly received. [80], In 1985, John was one of the many performers at Live Aid, held at Wembley Stadium. [68] His albums continued to sell, but of those released in the latter half of the 1980s, only Reg Strikes Back (number 16, 1988) placed in the top 20 in the US. John was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1995. The two pop powerhouses became unlikely friends following Sawayama’s album release last spring, when John named the project his “favorite of the year” […] [38], In 1967, John answered an advertisement in the British magazine New Musical Express, placed by Ray Williams, then the A&R manager for Liberty Records. [251] The 2011 guests included Sarah, Duchess of York, Elizabeth Hurley and George Michael (who performed "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" with John), and the auction raised £5 million, adding to the £45 million the balls have raised for John's foundation. Later in 1997, two close friends died: designer Gianni Versace was murdered on 15 July, and Diana, Princess of Wales died in a Paris car crash on 31 August. [105] Early in 1997, John held a 50th birthday party, costumed as Louis XIV of France, with 500 friends. [65] In 1975, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. '"[212] John stated, in his 2019 Me: Elton John Official Autobiography, that he had received many death threats as a result of his statements. Claude Bernardin (1995). John has sold more than 200 million albums worldwide. [261][262] The band has had multiple line-up changes, but Nigel Olsson, Davey Johnstone, and Ray Cooper have been members (albeit not continuously) since 1969, 1971 and 1974 respectively. [97], Along with Tim Rice, John wrote the songs for the 1994 Disney animated film The Lion King. [195][196] Woodrow provided financial assistance to John and Taupin at the time. was released in 1982, the biggest hit from which was "Blue Eyes". [153] At the 2012 Pride of Britain Awards on 30 October, along with Michael Caine, Richard Branson, Simon Cowell and Stephen Fry, John recited Rudyard Kipling's poem "If—" in tribute to the 2012 British Olympic and Paralympics athletes. [15], To raise money for his AIDS charity, John annually hosts a White Tie & Tiara Ball on the grounds of his home in Old Windsor in Berkshire, to which many celebrities are invited. [115], The Lion King musical debuted on Broadway in 1997 and the West End in 1999. I never thought I’d play on an Alice in Chains record. It reached number one in the US in 1985; credited as Dionne and Friends, the song raised funds for HIV/AIDS research. United Press International, "Elton John Named Rock Personality". Last week, Elton John and British-Japanese musician Rina Sawayama collaborated on a remix of the track “Chosen Family,” a queer anthem released in April of last year on Sawayama’s debut album, SAWAYAMA. [76], John's 1981 album The Fox was recorded during the same sessions as 21 at 33 and included collaborations with Tom Robinson and Judie Tzuke. [184] He was cleared to perform the next show on 19 February. An auction followed, emceed by Stephen Fry. [211][240] From late 1975 to 1976, John was a part-owner of the Los Angeles Aztecs of the North American Soccer League. In 2020, John helped pay for Woodrow's medical fees when she requested, despite having lost contact with her 50 years previously. There John wrote the songs that launched his career as a rock star; he lived there until he had four albums simultaneously in the American Top 40. [139] The first concert Staley attended was one of John's, and his mother said he was blown away by it. "[25] He has said that he would sometimes skip classes and ride around on the London Underground. [45][68] John's highest-charting single was a collaboration with Dionne Warwick, Gladys Knight, and Stevie Wonder called "That's What Friends Are For". At the 67th Academy Awards, three of the five nominees for the Academy Award for Best Original Song were from The Lion King soundtrack. [41], The team of John and Taupin joined Dick James's DJM Records as staff songwriters in 1968, and over the next two years wrote material for various artists, among them Roger Cook and Lulu. [185] The remainder of John's tour were postponed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [110] The song "Something About the Way You Look Tonight" was released as a double A-side. Quick Fox. [87] At the 1991 Brit Awards in London, John won Best British Male.