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ALBUMStep Into ChristmasElton John
Albums by Elton John
ALBUMRegimental Sgt. Zippo (Previously Unreleased 1968 Recordings)Elton John
ALBUMThe Lockdown Sessions (Deluxe Christmas Edition)Elton John
ALBUMWonderful Crazy Night (Deluxe)Elton John
ALBUMThe Diving Board (Deluxe Version)Elton John
ALBUMGood Morning to the Night (Deluxe)Elton John & PNAU
ALBUMThe Union (Deluxe)Elton John & Leon Russell
ALBUMThe Captain and The KidElton John
ALBUMPeachtree Road (Expanded Edition)Elton John
ALBUMLe Roi Lion (Bande originale de film) [Version intégrale française]Elton John, Hans Zimmer & Tim Rice
ALBUMSongs from the West Coast (Expanded Edition)Elton John
Elton John's Popular Music Videos
Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)
Elton John & Dua Lipa
I'm Still Standing (Remastered 2016) [Lyric Video]
Elton John
Hold Me Closer
Elton John & Britney Spears
Merry Christmas
Ed Sheeran & Elton John
I'm Still Standing
Elton John
Tiny Dancer
Elton John
Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me (feat. Elton John)
George Michael
Your Song (Live From Top Of The Pops / 1971)
Elton John
Sad Songs (Say So Much)
Elton John
Bennie And The Jets
Elton John
Artist Playlists
Elton John Essentials
The Rocket Man's hits are as stylistically ambitious as his fashion sense.
Elton John Video Essentials
The Rocket Man's visuals have dazzled for decades.
Elton John: Love Songs
Even in his glittery days, Sir Elton was an unmatchable balladeer.
Inspired by Elton John
Who hasn't he influenced?
Elton John: Fitness+ Spotlight
Uplift and empowerment from a pop inspiration.
At Home With Elton John: The Playlist
“At this time music is so important to people.”
Elton John: Influences
The classic pop and R&B that shaped a pivotal singer-songwriter.
Elton John: Chill
Lean back and relax with some of their mellowest cuts.
Elton John: The Songwriters
Celebrating a colorful maverick's risk-taking spirit.
Elton John: Deep Cuts
Diamonds (and sequins and glitter and other sparkly things) in the rough.
Artist Biography
At the height of the fever dream that was Elton John’s life in the ’70s, the singer-songwriter had the optician Dennis Roberts design a pair of giant, sculptural glasses studded with 57 battery-powered lights in the shape of the name Elton—to the tune of about $5,000. Adjusted for inflation, you’re talking about something more like $25,000. But John had a show to put on, and wouldn’t that be something to talk about?
The excess was always apparent: the rhinestones, the costumery, the old Hollywood glamour retrofitted for a new, gender-bending world. But beneath the feathers, John’s music—written with the lyricist Bernie Taupin—was direct and unpretentious, the kind of rock ’n’ roll storytelling that met you where you were. Even if you didn’t know exactly what it meant—who is the dancer, and why are they so tiny?—the feeling was immediate, universal. By 1973’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, John said they were writing a couple of songs at breakfast and recording them before lunch. This was pop music, John argued: You weren’t supposed to think about it too much, and god help you if you did. And yet here we are, singing the songs five decades later.
Born Reginald Dwight in Pinner, England, in 1947, John took to the piano young, studying on a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music while obsessively listening to Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard. They were so physical, John marveled—they didn’t just play the piano, they beat it. He started playing in pubs at 15 and, around 20, met Taupin through a want ad in a music magazine.
There were good years and bad ones, highs and lows—that handful of Valium before jumping into the swimming pool in 1975, for example, or the disco album, which John himself described as jumping on a dying bandwagon—but he has always endured, emerging from the debauchery of the ’70s and redefinitions of the ’80s bruised but never beaten, a gay icon, AIDS activist, philanthropist, Knight Bachelor, and father of two. In 2018, nearly 50 years after his debut album, he embarked on a three-year farewell tour, and published his first autobiography, Me, in 2019. The host of Apple Music 1’s Rocket Hour, Elton has been the recipient of countless awards (Grammys, Oscars, BRITs, Tonys, Ivors), has been knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, and, in 2020, was awarded the Companion of Honour.
The excess was always apparent: the rhinestones, the costumery, the old Hollywood glamour retrofitted for a new, gender-bending world. But beneath the feathers, John’s music—written with the lyricist Bernie Taupin—was direct and unpretentious, the kind of rock ’n’ roll storytelling that met you where you were. Even if you didn’t know exactly what it meant—who is the dancer, and why are they so tiny?—the feeling was immediate, universal. By 1973’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, John said they were writing a couple of songs at breakfast and recording them before lunch. This was pop music, John argued: You weren’t supposed to think about it too much, and god help you if you did. And yet here we are, singing the songs five decades later.
Born Reginald Dwight in Pinner, England, in 1947, John took to the piano young, studying on a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music while obsessively listening to Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard. They were so physical, John marveled—they didn’t just play the piano, they beat it. He started playing in pubs at 15 and, around 20, met Taupin through a want ad in a music magazine.
There were good years and bad ones, highs and lows—that handful of Valium before jumping into the swimming pool in 1975, for example, or the disco album, which John himself described as jumping on a dying bandwagon—but he has always endured, emerging from the debauchery of the ’70s and redefinitions of the ’80s bruised but never beaten, a gay icon, AIDS activist, philanthropist, Knight Bachelor, and father of two. In 2018, nearly 50 years after his debut album, he embarked on a three-year farewell tour, and published his first autobiography, Me, in 2019. The host of Apple Music 1’s Rocket Hour, Elton has been the recipient of countless awards (Grammys, Oscars, BRITs, Tonys, Ivors), has been knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, and, in 2020, was awarded the Companion of Honour.
Hometown
Pinner, Middlesex, England
Genre
Pop