Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John CH CBE is an English singer, songwriter, pianist, and composer. Collaborating with lyricist Bernie Taupin since 1967 on more than 30 albums, John has sold over 300 million records. John announced he was bisexual in 1976 and has been openly gay since 1988. He entered into a civil partnership with David Furnish on 21 December 2005; they married after same-sex marriage became legal in England and Wales in 2014.
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Sir Elton Hercules John CH CBE is an English singer, songwriter, pianist, and composer. Collaborating with lyricist Bernie Taupin since 1967 on more than 30 albums, John has sold over 300 million records. He has more than fifty Top 40 hits in the UK Singles Chart and US Billboard Hot 100. 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. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to music and charitable services in 1998. In 2013, Billboard ranked him the most successful male solo artist on the Billboard Hot100 Top All-Time Artists, and third overall, behind the Beatles and Madonna. John announced he was bisexual in 1976 and has been openly gay since 1988. He entered into a civil partnership with David Furnish on 21 December 2005; they married after same-sex marriage became legal in England and Wales in 2014. In 2018, John embarked on a three-year farewell tour. His tribute single \”Candle in the Wind 1997\”, rewritten in dedication to Diana, Princess of Wales, sold over 33 million copies worldwide and is the best-selling single in the history of the UK and US singles charts. His most commercially successful period, 1970–1976, included Honky Château, Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and his first Greatest Hits compilation — the latter two listed among thebest-selling albums worldwide.
In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him 49th on its list of 100 influential musicians of the rock and roll era. He is the eldest child of Stanley Dwight and Sheila Eileen Dwight. His parents married when the family moved to Pinner, Middlesex, in 1945. John was educated at Grammar School and Pinner Wood Junior School, Reddord County, until he was 17, when he left just prior to his A-Level examinations. His father, a flight lieutenant in the Royal Air Force, tried to steer him toward a more conventional career, having been a musically inclined trumpet player with the Mill Mill. John’s parents moved to a nearby semi-detached house in 1945, when the parents married and moved to nearby Pinner County, where he was educated. John is an honorary life president of Watford F. C. from 1976 to 1987 and from 1997 to 2002. He owns Watford Football Club, which he has been honorary president of since 1987. He also has a stake in Watford Town FC, a football club based in Hertfordshire, and is a member of the club’s board of directors. John and his wife have two children, a son, a daughter and a son-in-law. The couple have a son and a daughter, both of whom are called Elton John Jr. John also has two step-daughters.
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