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British musician and songwriter (born 1947)

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Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947)^[1] is a British singer, composer and pianist.

Acclaimed by critics and musicians, particularly for fulfil work during the 1970s, fulfil music and showmanship have confidential a significant, lasting impact take forward the music industry.^[2] His songwriting partnership with lyricist Bernie Taupin is one of the cap successful in history.^[3]

John was easier said than done in Pinner and learned infer play piano at an completely age, winning a scholarship in detail the Royal Academy of Sound, where he studied for pentad years.

He formed the depression band Bluesology in 1962, on the other hand left in 1967 to set out on a solo career instruct met Taupin that same assemblage. For two years, they wrote songs for other artists, other John worked as a hearing musician. In 1969, John loose his debut album Empty Sky, and a year later chary the Elton John Band, along with releasing his first hit solitary, "Your Song".^[4] John's critical added commercial success was at lecturer peak in the 1970s, while in the manner tha he released a string be incumbent on chart-topping albums both in depiction US and UK, which began with Honky Château (1972) status culminated with Rock of say publicly Westies (1975).^[5] His success enlarged in the 1980s and Nineties, having several hit singles slab albums in both decades,^[6][7] presentday he has continued to make a copy of new music since.^[8][9] John has also had success in harmonious films and theatre, composing punishment for The Lion King (1994), Aida (2000), and Billy Elliot the Musical (2005).

John's terminal tour, Farewell Yellow Brick Method (2018–2023), became the highest-grossing structure ever at the time.^[10] Authority life and career were dramatised in the 2019 biopic Rocketman.

John is an HIV/AIDS munificence fundraiser and has been active in the fight against Immunodeficiency since the late 1980s.^[11][12][13] Do something established the Elton John Immunodeficiency Foundation in 1992, which has raised over £300 million since university teacher inception, and a year after he began hosting his yearbook AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Tyrannical, which has since become flavour of the biggest high-profile Laurels parties in the Hollywood disc industry.^[14] John was the chairwoman and director of Watford Candidates Club from 1976 to 1987, and again from 1997 run into 2002, and is an title only life president of the club.^[15][16] From the late 1970s oversee the late 1980s, John erudite a severe addiction to dope and alcohol, but has anachronistic clean and sober since 1990.^[17] In 2005, he entered clean up civil partnership with his blanket partner, the Canadian filmmaker King Furnish.

They married in 2014, when same-sex marriage was legitimate in England and Wales.^[18]

John has had more than fifty top-40 hits on the UK Singles Chart and US Billboard Dazzling 100, including nine number tilt in both countries, as adequately as seven consecutive number-one albums in the US.^[19][20] He has sold over 300 million annals worldwide, making him one depict the best-selling music artists notice all time.^[21] He is interpretation most successful solo artist be given the history of the Explode Billboard charts.^[22] His tribute unattached to Diana, Princess of Princedom, "Candle in the Wind 1997", a rewritten version of realm 1974 single, sold over 33 million copies worldwide and is representation best-selling chart single of relapse time.^[23][24][25] In 2021, he became the first solo artist sign up UK top 10 singles strike six decades.^[26][27][28] Among John's plentiful awards, he is one snatch 21 entertainers to win loftiness EGOT, which includes an Laurels Award, five Grammy Awards, one Academy Awards, and a Chivalrous Award.^[29][30] He also won figure Golden Globes, a Laurence Player Award, and the Kennedy Sentiment Honor.

He was inducted smash into the Songwriters Hall of Pre-eminence in 1992 and the Escarpment and Roll Hall of Abomination in 1994, and is natty fellow of The Ivors Institution. He was appointed Knight Single for services to music unacceptable charity in 1998 and was appointed a member of distinction Order of the Companions order Honour in 2020.^[31]

Early life careful education

Elton John was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 Foot it 1947, in Pinner, Middlesex (now part of the London Township of Harrow), the eldest youngster of Stanley Dwight (1925–1991) most recent only child of Sheila Eileen (née Harris; 1925–2017).^[32][33][34] He was raised in a council rostrum in Pinner by his tender grandparents.

His parents married detect 1945,^[35] when the family insincere to a nearby semi-detached house.^[36][37][38] He was educated at Pinner Wood Junior School, Reddiford Grammar and Pinner County Grammar Secondary, until he was 17, in the way that he left just before cap A-Level examinations to pursue boss career in music.^[39][40][41]

When John began to consider a career on the run music seriously, his father, who served in the Royal Conciliation Force, tried to steer him toward a more conventional life, such as banking.^[42][39] John has said that his wild grade costumes and performances were monarch way of letting go tail end a restrictive childhood.^[41] Both dominion parents were musically inclined, fillet father having been a bugle player with the Bob Millar Band, a semi-professional big cast that played at military dances.^[41] The Dwights were keen top secret buyers, exposing John to blue blood the gentry popular singers and musicians fine the day.

John started act his grandmother's piano as neat young boy,^[43] and within uncomplicated year his mother heard him picking out Waldteufel's "The Skater's Waltz" by ear.^[39][40] After implementation at parties and family gatherings, at age seven he began formal piano lessons.

He showed musical aptitude at school, inclusive of the ability to compose melodies, and gained some notoriety uncongenial playing like Jerry Lee Pianist at school functions. At for one person 11, he won a minor scholarship to the Royal Faculty of Music. According to susceptible of his instructors, John straight away played back, like a "gramophone record", a four-page piece wishy-washy George Frideric Handel after chance it for the first time.^[40]

For the next five years, Closet attended Saturday classes at integrity Academy in central London, have a word with he has said he enjoyed playing Frédéric Chopin and Johann Sebastian Bach and singing rip open the choir during Saturday guide, but that he was fret otherwise a diligent classical student.^[40] "I kind of resented thick-headed to the Academy," he uttered.

"I was one of those children who could just transfer get away without practising subject still pass, scrape through honourableness grades."^[40] He has said cruise he would sometimes skip lessons and ride around on rank London Underground.^[40] Several instructors be born with attested that he was unmixed "model student", and during nobility last few years he took lessons from a private guru in addition to his prepare at the Academy.^[40] He sinistral the Academy before taking character final exams.^[44]

John's mother, though say with her son, was add-on vivacious than her husband, remarkable something of a free quality.

With Stanley Dwight uninterested stress his son and often outside, John was raised primarily past as a consequence o his mother and maternal grannie. When his father was rural area, the Dwights had vehement theory that greatly distressed John.^[40] In the way that he was 14, they divorced. His mother then married unadulterated local painter, Fred Farebrother, first-class caring and supportive stepfather whom John affectionately called "Derf" ("Fred" backward).^[40] They moved into relatives No. 3A in an eight-unit chambers building called Frome Court, need far from both previous housing.

There John wrote the songs that launched his career chimpanzee a rock star; he quick there until he had span albums simultaneously in the English Top 40.^[45]

Career

1962–1969: Pub pianist more staff songwriter

See also: Bluesology

At deceive 15, with his mother's prep added to stepfather's help, John was chartered as a pianist at precise nearby pub, the Northwood Hills Hotel, playing Thursday to nights.^[46][47] Known simply as "Reggie", he played a range vacation popular standards, including songs mass Jim Reeves and Ray River, as well as his fiddle with songs.^[48][49] A stint with skilful short-lived group called the Corvettes rounded out his time.^[40] Granted normal-sighted as a teenager, Bog began wearing horn-rimmed glasses save for imitate Buddy Holly.^[50][51]

In 1962, Toilet and some friends formed pure band called Bluesology.

By offering, he ran errands for skilful music publishing company; he separate disconnected his nights between solo gigs at a London hotel preclude and working with Bluesology. Make wet the mid-1960s, Bluesology was authorization touring American soul and R&B musicians such as the Isley Brothers, Major Lance and Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles.

Squeeze 1966, the band became Splurge John Baldry's supporting band allow played 16 times at high-mindedness Marquee Club.^[52]

In 1967, John approved an advertisement in the Land music paper New Musical Express, placed by Ray Williams, run away with the A&R manager for Independence Records.^[53] At their first conquered, Williams gave John an shut envelope of lyrics written do without Bernie Taupin, who had declared the same ad.^[54] John wrote music for the lyrics charge then sent it to Taupin, which began their decades-long society that still continues^[update].

When character two first met in 1967, they recorded the first John/Taupin song, "Scarecrow". Six months succeeding, John began going by excellence name Elton John in loyalty to two members of Bluesology: saxophonist Elton Dean and choir girl Long John Baldry.^[48] He officially changed his name to Elton Hercules John on 7 Jan 1972.^[55] "Hercules" came from honourableness name of a horse focal point British sitcomSteptoe and Son, assert which John was a expansive fan.^[56]

The team of John dispatch Taupin joined Dick James's DJM Records as staff songwriters execute 1968, and over the succeeding two years wrote material schedule various artists, among them Roger Cook and Lulu.^[57] Taupin would write a batch of argument in under an hour ride give it to John, who would write music for tell off of them in half phony hour, disposing of the text altercation if he could not destroy up with anything quickly.^[57] Muddle up two years they wrote easy-listening tunes for James to push to singers.

Their early works included a contender for justness UK entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 1969, for Killer-diller from manila, called "I Can't Go Classification (Living Without You)". It came sixth of six songs. Orders 1969, John provided piano transfer Roger Hodgson on his culminating released single, "Mr.

Boyd" because of Argosy, a quartet that was completed by Caleb Quaye lecture Nigel Olsson.^[58][59]

1969–1973: Empty Sky appoint Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

On influence advice of music publisher Steve Brown, John and Taupin began writing more complex songs unmixed John to record for DJM.

The first was the lone "I've Been Loving You" (1968), produced by Caleb Quaye, Bluesology's former guitarist. In 1969, swing at Quaye, drummer Roger Pope, delighted bassist Tony Murray, John taped another single, "Lady Samantha", submit an album, Empty Sky. Sustenance their follow-up album, Elton John, John and Taupin enlisted Gus Dudgeon as producer and Apostle Buckmaster as musical arranger.

Elton John was released in Apr 1970 on DJM Records/Pye Chronicles in the UK and Uni Records in the US, beginning established the formula for following albums: gospel-chorded rockers and bitter ballads. The album's first free, "Border Song", peaked at 92 on the Billboard Hot Century. The second, "Your Song", reached number seven in the UK Singles Chart and number albatross in the US, becoming John's first hit single as a-okay singer.^[60] The album soon became his first hit album, movement number four on the Double-crossing Billboard 200 and number quintuplet on the UK Albums Chart.^[60][61]

Backed by former Spencer Davis Agree drummer Nigel Olsson and bassist Dee Murray, John's first Denizen concert took place at class Troubadour in Los Angeles, Calif.

on 25 August 1970, boss was a success.^[62] The construct album Tumbleweed Connection was unbound in October 1970 and reached number two in the UK and number five in interpretation US.^[60] The live album 17-11-70 (titled 11–17–70 in the US) was recorded at a exist show aired from A&R Studios on WABC-FM in New Royalty City.

Sales of the support album took a blow encompass the US when an east-coast bootlegger released the performance very many weeks before the official jotter, including all 60 minutes star as the aircast, not just excellence 40 minutes selected by Sleuth James Music.^[63]

John and Taupin wrote the soundtrack to the 1971 film Friends and the stamp album Madman Across the Water, which reached number eight in dignity US and included the happiness songs "Levon" and the album's opening track, "Tiny Dancer".

Perceive 1972, Davey Johnstone joined grandeur Elton John Band on bass and backing vocals. Released crush 1972, Honky Château became John's first US number one book, spending five weeks at dignity top of the Billboard Cardinal, and began a streak rule seven consecutive US number-one albums.^[64] The album reached number twosome in the UK, and spawned the hit singles "Rocket Man" and "Honky Cat".^[65]

In 1972, Crapper performed at the Royal Manner Performance, where he was upstaged by the dancing of Larry Smith, the drummer with magnanimity Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.^[66] Sculptor was invited to join John's second US tour; Smith succeeding said: "I suggested adding fasten various other bizarre elements love me doing "Singin' in righteousness Rain" as a song jaunt dance act with Elton exhibition piano.

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Kubrick's Clockwork Orange film had recently featured consider it song. Plus I designed senseless, over-the-top costumes and giant blow things out of all proportion sets – known as 'Legstravaganzas'. Elton loved all of it."^[67]

The pop album Don't Shoot Nation I'm Only the Piano Player came out at the hill of 1973 and reached back number one in the UK, dignity US, and Australia, among spanking countries.^[60] The album produced excellence hits "Crocodile Rock", his chief US Billboard Hot 100 number one, and "Daniel", which reached calculate two in the US nearby number four in the UK.^[60][68] The album and "Crocodile Rock" were respectively the first publication and single on the abridged MCA Records label in illustriousness US, replacing MCA's other labels, including Uni.^[69]

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, a double-album released in Oct 1973, gained instant critical approval and topped the chart verbal abuse both sides of the Ocean, remaining at number one avoidable two months.^[70] It also for now established John as a glam rock star.

It contained honesty US number 1 "Bennie and rendering Jets", along with the hits "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", "Candle in the Wind", "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" and "Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding".

1974–1980: The Rocket Record Ballet company to 21 at 33

John bacilliform his own label, The Skyrocket Record Company (distributed in loftiness US by MCA and in the early stages by Island in the UK), and signed acts to it—notably Neil Sedaka (John sang location vocals on Sedaka's "Bad Blood") and Kiki Dee, in whom he took a personal notice.

Instead of releasing his wind up records on Rocket, he shipshape an $8 million contract with MCA. When the contract was signlanguage in 1974, MCA reportedly took out a $25 million insurance scheme on John's life.^[71] In 1974, MCA released Elton John's Extreme Hits, a UK and Loaded number one that is self-acknowledged Diamond by the RIAA diplomat US sales of 17 million copies.^[60][72]

In 1974, John collaborated with Closet Lennon on his cover forfeiture the Beatles' "Lucy in nobility Sky with Diamonds", the Change of which was Lennon's "One Day at a Time".

Go with was number 1 for mirror image weeks in the US. Transparent return, John was featured blast "Whatever Gets You Thru righteousness Night" on Lennon's album Walls and Bridges. Later that period, in Lennon's last major hold out performance, the pair performed these two number-one hits, along be different the Beatles' "I Saw Shepherd Standing There", at Madison Arena Garden in New York Metropolis.

Lennon made the rare altitude appearance with John and rule band to keep the responsibility he had made that crystalclear would appear on stage refurbish him if "Whatever Gets Order about Thru The Night" became unembellished US number-one single.^[73]Caribou was unconfined in 1974, becoming John's 3rd number one in the UK and topping the charts embankment the US, Canada and Australia.^[60][74] Reportedly recorded in two weeks between live appearances, it featured "The Bitch Is Back" near "Don't Let the Sun Make headway Down on Me".^[74] "Step impact Christmas" was released as far-out stand-alone single in November 1973, and appears in the album's 1995 remastered reissue.^[75]

Pete Townshend of representation Who asked John to pastime the "Local Lad" in integrity 1975 film adaptation of honesty rock operaTommy, and to bring off the song "Pinball Wizard".

Sketch on power chords, John's chronicle was recorded and used rafter the movie. The song pert chart at number 7 in the UK.^[60] John, who had adopted a-ok glam aesthetic on stage, would later state glam rock image Marc Bolan "had a middling effect on me."^[77]

The 1975 autobiographic album Captain Fantastic and glory Brown Dirt Cowboy debuted put the lid on number one in the Demonstrate, the first album to invalidate so, and stayed there plan seven weeks.^[78] John revealed circlet previously ambiguous personality on rectitude album, with Taupin's lyrics story their early days as straining songwriters and musicians in Writer.

The lyrics and accompanying photograph booklet are infused with expert specific sense of place pivotal time that is otherwise unusual in his music. The trounce single from this album, "Someone Saved My Life Tonight", captured an early turning point impossible to differentiate John's life. The album's liberation signalled the end of authority Elton John Band, as public housing unhappy and overworked John pink-slipped Olsson and Murray.^[79]

According to Circus, a spokesman for John's senior John Reid said the get to the bottom of was reached mutually via headset while John was in State promoting Tommy.^[80] Davey Johnstone put forward Ray Cooper were retained, Quaye and Roger Pope returned, endure the new bassist was Kenny Passarelli; this rhythm section assuming a heavier backbeat.

James Physicist Howard joined to arrange discharge the studio and to make reference to keyboards.^[81] In June 1975, Bathroom introduced the line-up at birth London, England, Wembley Stadium.^[81]

The rock-oriented Rock of the Westies entered the US albums chart dress warmly number 1, as had Captain Astounding and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, a previously unattained feat.^[78] John's stage wardrobe now included ratite feathers, $5,000 spectacles that spelled his name in lights, roost costumes such as the Icon of Liberty, Donald Duck, build up Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.^[82] In 1975, he received a star costly the Hollywood Walk of Fame.^[83] The album features his one-fifth US number one single, "Island Girl".

To celebrate five life since he had first developed at the venue, in 1975, John played a two-night, four-show stand at the Troubadour. Ready to go seating limited to under Cardinal per show, the chance tutorial purchase tickets was determined through a postcard lottery, with educate winner allowed two tickets. One who attended the performances established a hardbound "yearbook" of influence band's history.

That year, settle down also played piano on Kevin Ayers's Sweet Deceiver and was among the first and rare white artists to appear disinter the African-American television series Soul Train.^[70] On 9 August 1975, John was named the omitted rock personality of the origin at the first annual Escarpment Music Awards in Santa Monica, California.^[84] In May 1976, greatness live album Here and There was released, followed in Oct by the album Blue Moves, which contained the single "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word".

His biggest success access 1976 was "Don't Go Depressed My Heart", a duet support Kiki Dee that topped tidy number of charts, including honourableness UK, the US, Australia, Writer and Canada.^[60][85]

Besides being John's apogee commercially successful period, 1970–1976 psychiatry also held in the utmost regard critically.

In the three-year span from 1972 to 1975, John saw seven consecutive albums reach number one in interpretation US, something that had arrange been accomplished before.^[70] All sextuplet of his albums to trade mark Rolling Stone's 2003 list accuse "The 500 Greatest Albums endorse All Time" are from that period, with Goodbye Yellow Browned Road ranked highest at number 91.^[86] Between 1972 and 1976 earth also had six singles hole number one on the Billboard Hot 100.^[87]

In November 1977, Convenience announced he was retiring evade performing; Taupin began collaborating information flow others.

Now producing only sharpen album a year, John stop by A Single Man in 1978, with a new lyricist, City Osborne; the album produced inept singles that made the restrain 20 in the US, however the two singles from leadership album released in the UK, "Part-Time Love" and "Song confirm Guy", both made the vacate 20 there, with the spatter reaching the top 5.^[60] Walk heavily 1979, accompanied by Ray Actor, John became one of probity first Western artists to excursion the Soviet Union and Israel.^[88][89] John returned to the Tantalizing top ten with "Mama Can't Buy You Love" (number 9), a-one song MCA rejected in 1977, recorded with Philadelphia soul creator Thom Bell.^[90] John said Buzz was the first person command somebody to give him voice lessons suggest encouraged him to sing dupe a lower register.^[91]

A disco-influenced medium, Victim of Love, was ailing received.

In 1979, John bid Taupin reunited, though they sincere not collaborate on a congested album until 1983's Too Consent to For Zero. 21 at 33, released in 1980, was simple significant career boost, aided contempt his biggest hit in quaternion years, "Little Jeannie" (number 3 US), with the lyrics by City Osborne.^[92] In May 1979, Convenience played eight concerts in depiction Soviet Union; four dates girder Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) gain four in Moscow.^[93] At honesty same time, John collaborated hint at the French couple France Toxin acidity and Michel Berger on representation songs "Donner pour donner" ahead "Les Aveux", released together hillock 1980 as a single.^[94]

1981–1989: The Fox to Sleeping with decency Past

John's 1981 album The Fox was recorded during the harmonized sessions as 21 at 33 and included collaborations with Take a break Robinson and Judie Tzuke.

Turn up 13 September 1980, with Olsson and Murray back in authority Elton John Band, and wed by Richie Zito on celeb guitar, Tim Renwick on pattern guitar, and James Newton Actor on keyboards, John performed swell free concert to an putative 400,000 fans on The Soso Lawn in Central Park pin down New York City.^[95] He awkward part of the set clear as Donald Duck.^[96] The medium Jump Up! was released uphold 1982, the biggest hit pass up which was "Blue Eyes".^[97]

With creative band members Johnstone, Murray flourishing Olsson together again, John reciprocal to the charts with significance 1983 album Too Low gather Zero, which included the singles "I'm Still Standing" (No.

4 UK) and "I Guess That's Why They Call It position Blues", the latter of which featured Stevie Wonder on harp and reached number four girder the US and number fivesome in the UK.^[60][85] In Oct 1983, John caused controversy what because he broke the United Nations' cultural boycott on apartheid-era Southward Africa by performing at Sunbathe City.^[98] He married his nothing friend and sound engineer, Renate Blauel, on Valentine's Day 1984; the marriage lasted three years.^[99] In 1984, he released Breaking Hearts, which featured the concord "Sad Songs (Say So Much)", a number five hit train in the US and number vii in the UK.^[60]

In 1985, Toilet was one of the go to regularly performers at Live Aid, retained at Wembley Stadium.^[100] He non-natural "Bennie and the Jets" arena "Rocket Man"; then "Don't Serve Breaking My Heart" with Kiki Dee for the first constantly since the Hammersmith Odeon annoyance 24 December 1982; and external George Michael, still then classic Wham!, to sing "Don't Jet the Sun Go Down put things in order Me".^[100] John also recorded constituents with Millie Jackson in 1985.

Towards the end of character year, John released "Nikita" use up the album Ice on Fire, which had a music tv directed by Ken Russell. Honesty song reached number three teensy weensy the UK and number heptad in the US.

John's highest-charting single of the decade was a collaboration with Dionne Solon, Gladys Knight and Stevie Prodigy called "That's What Friends Wily For".

It reached number horn in the US at nobility beginning of 1986; credited monkey Dionne and Friends, the put a label on raised funds for HIV/AIDS research.^[85] In the same year, expert live orchestral version of "Candle in the Wind" reached back copy six in the US. Sharptasting also played piano on mirror image tracks on the heavy conductor band Saxon's album Rock dignity Nations.^[101]

In 1988, he performed cinque sold-out shows at Madison Rightangled Garden in New York, offering appearance him 26 for his career.^[102] Netting over $20 million, 2,000 incident of John's memorabilia were auctioned off at Sotheby's in London.^[103] He also released "I Don't Wanna Go On with Bolster Like That" from the medium Reg Strikes Back, the sui generis incomparabl reaching number two in honourableness US in 1988.^[60][85] His albums continued to sell, but long-awaited those released in the turn half of the 1980s, sui generis incomparabl Reg Strikes Back (number 16, 1988) placed in the top 20 in the US.^[85]

1990–1999: "Sacrifice" stage Aida

In 1990, John achieved her highness first solo UK number one discount single, with "Sacrifice" (coupled fumble "Healing Hands") from the past year's album Sleeping with distinction Past; it stayed at depiction top spot for five weeks.^[104] The following year, "Basque" won the Grammy for Best Conducive, and a guest concert invention at Wembley Arena John prefab on George Michael's cover confess "Don't Let the Sun Go on foot Down on Me" was free as a single and peak the charts in both leadership UK and the US.^[105] Representative the 1991Brit Awards in Writer, John won Best British Male.^[106]

In 1992, John released the Notable number 8 album The One, featuring the hit song "The One".^[107] It was his first volume recorded entirely sober.

As Ablutions recalled in 2020, "I was used to making records adorn the haze of alcohol revolve drugs, and here I was, 100% sober, so it was tough. But I managed go come up with a great song, which was the caption of the record."^[108] He extremely released "Runaway Train", a duo he recorded with his longtime friend Eric Clapton, with whom he played on Clapton's Earth Tour.^[109] John and Taupin followed by signed a music publishing tie with Warner/Chappell Music for distinctive estimated $39 million over 12 era, including the largest cash approach in music publishing history.^[110]

In Apr 1992, John appeared at integrity Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert convenient Wembley Stadium, performing "The County show Must Go On" with prestige remaining members of Queen, bracket "Bohemian Rhapsody" with Axl Cherry of Guns N' Roses ground Queen's remaining members.^[111] In Sept, John performed "The One" discuss the 1992 MTV Video Melody Awards and closed the rite performing "November Rain" with Firearms N' Roses.^[112] In 1993, smartness released Duets, which featured collaborations with 15 artists, including Tam Wynette and RuPaul.

This limited a new collaboration with Kiki Dee, "True Love", which reached the Top 10 of depiction UK charts.^[113] In the equivalent year, The Bunbury Tails, unornamented multi-artist charity album, was free, which was the soundtrack hinder the British animated television playoff of the same name.

"Up The Revolution" was John's path, alongside contributions from George Thespian, the Bee Gees and Eric Clapton. The album was get well briefly, and only in dignity UK.^[114]

Along with Tim Hurried, John wrote the songs on behalf of the 1994 Disney animated integument The Lion King.

At description 67th Academy Awards, three noise the five nominees for distinction Academy Award for Best Recent Song were from The Revolution King soundtrack. John won rectitude award for "Can You See the Love Tonight".^[116] Both zigzag and "Circle of Life" became hits.^[117][118] "Can You Feel leadership Love Tonight" also won decency Grammy Award for Best Spear Pop Vocal Performance at righteousness 37th Annual Grammy Awards.^[119] Significance soundtrack for The Lion King remained at the top heed the Billboard 200 for niner weeks.

On 10 November 1999, the RIAA certified The Revolution King "Diamond" for selling 15 million copies.^[120]

In 1994, John was inducted into the Rock and Coil Hall of Fame by Escutcheon N' Roses' frontman Axl Rose.^[121] In 1995, he released influence album Made in England (number 3).

The title track is play down autobiographical recounting of parts admire his life. The album extremely featured the single "Believe".^[122] Toilet performed "Believe" at the 1995Brit Awards and won the Prominent Contribution to Music prize.^[123] Shaggy dog story September 1995, he appeared importation Angel Rick on the beginning studio album of Randy Newman's musical Faust.^[124]

A duet with Luciano Pavarotti, "Live Like Horses", reached number nine in the UK in December 1996.^[60] A album album, Love Songs, was on the loose in 1996.^[125] Early in 1997, John held a 50th anniversary party, costumed as Louis Cardinal of France, with 500 associates.

He performed with the main members of Queen in Town at the opening night (17 January 1997) of Le Presbytère N'a Rien Perdu De Girl Charme Ni Le Jardin Momentary failure Son Éclat, a work be oblivious to French ballet legend Maurice Béjart that draws upon the Immunodeficiency crisis and the deaths touch on Freddie Mercury and the company's principal dancer, Jorge Donn.

After in 1997, two close entourage died: designer Gianni Versace was murdered on 15 July, instruct Diana, Princess of Wales dreary in a Paris car crashing on 31 August.^[126]

In early Sep, John asked Taupin to reading the lyrics of their 1973 song "Candle in the Wind" to honour Diana, and Taupin agreed.^[127] On 6 September 1997, John performed "Candle in significance Wind 1997" live for class only time at Diana's burying in Westminster Abbey.^[128][129] The theme agreement became the fastest- and biggest-selling single of all time, at last selling over 33 million copies globally.^[120][130] The best-selling single in UK chart history,^[131] and the favourable single in Billboard history, true is the first single self-acknowledged Diamond in the US disc it sold over 11 million copies.^[120][132] The 2009 Guinness World Records states it is "the biggest-selling single since UK and Mysterious singles charts began in loftiness 1950s, having accumulated worldwide mercantile of 33 million copies".^[25] The song's proceeds of approximately £55 million were donated to Diana's charities element the Diana, Princess of Principality Memorial Fund.

It won rectitude Grammy Award for Best Human race Pop Vocal Performance at loftiness 40th Annual Grammy Awards intricate 1998.^[130] The song "Something Be conscious of the Way You Look Tonight" was released as a height A-side.^[129]

On 15 September 1997, Closet appeared at the Music on Montserrat charity concert at probity Royal Albert Hall, London, England, performing three songs solo ("Your Song", "Don't Let the Old sol Go Down on Me" dowel "Live Like Horses") before coating with "Hey Jude" alongside Missioner McCartney, Eric Clapton, Phil Author, Mark Knopfler and Sting.^[133] Join months later he performed pull a fast one the BBC's Children in Have need of charity single "Perfect Day", which reached number one in leadership UK.^[134] John appeared as being in the Spice Girls crust Spice World, released in Dec 1997.^[135]

The Lion King musical debuted on Broadway in 1997 extort the West End theatre create 1999.

In 2014, it locked away grossed over $6 billion and became the top-earning title in box-office history for both stage works and films, surpassing the not to be disclosed previously held by Andrew Player Webber's 1986 musical The Phantasm of the Opera.^[136] In along with to The Lion King, Can composed music for Disney's euphonic production Aida in 1999 monitor lyricist Tim Rice, for which they received the Tony Accord for Best Original Score soothe the 54th Tony Awards,^[137] enthralled the Grammy Award for Finest Musical Show Album at birth 43rd Annual Grammy Awards.^[138][139]

The melodious had its world premiere enviable the Atlanta, Georgia, Alliance Play-acting and went on to Port, Illinois and eventually Broadway look onto New York City.

John unrestricted a live compilation album, Elton John One Night Only – The Greatest Hits, featuring songs from his show at President Square Garden in New Dynasty City that same year. Unornamented concept album of songs exaggerate the musical Aida, Elton Ablutions and Tim Rice's Aida, was also released and featured goodness John duets "Written in interpretation Stars" with LeAnn Rimes, shaft "I Know the Truth" buffed Janet Jackson.^[140]

2000–2009: Billy Elliot authority Musical and 60th birthday

By that time, John disliked appearing engross his own music videos; significance video for "This Train Don't Stop There Anymore" featured Justin Timberlake portraying a young Privy, and the video for "I Want Love" featured Robert Downey, Jr.

lip-syncing the song.^[141] Warrant the 2001 Grammy Awards, Toilet performed "Stan" with Eminem.^[142] Tending month after the 11 Sept attacks, John appeared at rectitude Concert for New York Seep into, performing "I Want Love" variety well as "Your Song" little a duet with Billy Joel.^[143] In August 2003, John's 5th UK number one single, "Are You Ready for Love", summit the charts.^[144]

Returning to musical auditorium, John composed music for trim West End theatre production bear witness Billy Elliot the Musical put in the bank 2005 with playwright Lee Passageway.

John had been moved castigate write the musical after sight the 2000 British coming-of-age layer Billy Elliot, saying of integrity titular character, "he's like me".^[145] Opening to strong reviews, honourableness show won four Laurence Player Awards, including Best New Sweet-sounding. The 12th-longest-running musical in Westside End history, the London manufacture, which featured Tom Holland owing to Billy for two years, ran through April 2016, with 4,566 performances.^[146]

As of December 2015, Billy Elliot has been seen indifferent to over 5.25 million people in Writer and nearly 11 million mass worldwide (on Broadway where insecurity won the Tony Award broach Best Musical, in Sydney significant Melbourne, Australia, Chicago, Illinois, Toronto, Ontario, Seoul, South Korea, high-mindedness Netherlands and São Paulo, Brasil, etc.), grossed over $800 million society and won over 80 playhouse awards internationally.^[147] John's only player project with Taupin is Lestat, based on Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles.

It received give the thumbs down to reviews from critics and completed in May 2006 after 39 performances.^[148] John featured on doorknocker Tupac Shakur's posthumous single "Ghetto Gospel", which topped the UK charts in July 2005.^[60]

In Oct 2003, John announced that explicit had signed an exclusive on a case by case basis to perform 75 shows refer to three years at Caesars Fastness on the Las Vegas Leash in Nevada.

The show, The Red Piano, was a footage concert featuring massive props bear video montages created by Painter LaChapelle. Effectively, he and Celine Dion shared performances at Caesars Palace throughout the year; span one performed, the other invigorated. The first of these shows took place on 13 Feb 2004.^[149] In February 2006, Lav and Dion sang together claim the venue to raise means for Harrah's Entertainment Inc.

lecturers affected by the 2005 hurricanes, performing "Sorry Seems to Cast doubt on the Hardest Word" and "Saturday Night's Alright (for Fighting)".^[150]

The Walt Disney Company named John organized Disney Legend for his donations to Disney's films and thespian works on 9 October 2006.^[151] Also in 2006, he bad Rolling Stone that he arranged for his next record give somebody no option but to be in R&B and overtone hop.

"I want to industry with Pharrell Williams, Timbaland, Busybody [Dogg], Kanye [West], Eminem instruct just see what happens", noteworthy said.^[152] West sampled John's "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" calibrate his 2007 song "Good Morning" and in 2010 invited him to his Hawaii studio rear play piano and sing creep "All of the Lights".^[153]

In Go 2007, John performed at President Square Garden for a secretly 60th time for his Sixtieth birthday; the concert was exterior live and a DVD disc was released as Elton 60 – Live at Madison Cubic Garden;^[154] a greatest-hits compilation Disc, Rocket Man—Number Ones, was released hutch 17 different versions worldwide, containing a CD/DVD combo; and monarch back catalogue—almost 500 songs exotic 32 albums—became available for statutory paid download.^[155]

On 1 July 2007, John appeared at the Take the trouble for Diana at Wembley Sphere in honour of Diana, Queen of Wales on what would have been her 46th sumptuously, with the concert's proceeds dire to Diana's charities as exceptional as to charities of which her sons Prince William current Prince Harry are patrons.^[156][157] Bathroom opened the concert with "Your Song" and closed it be equal with "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting", "Tiny Dancer", and "Are On your toes Ready For Love".^[156]

On 21 June 2008, John performed his 200 show at Caesars Palace.

Graceful DVD/CD package of The Wronged Piano was released through Preeminent Buy in November 2008. Hillock a September 2008 GQ examine John said, "I'm going position the road again with Order Joel again next year", referring to "Face to Face", wonderful series of concerts featuring excellence two. The tour began require March.^[158]

In 2009, John accepted Jerry Cantrell's invitation to collaborate matter his band Alice in Chains.^[159] John played the piano straighten out the song "Black Gives Go sour to Blue", a tribute academic the band's late lead songster, Layne Staley, which was dignity title track and closing at a bargain price a fuss of the album Black Gives Way to Blue, released occupy September 2009.^[160] The first harmony Staley attended was one dying John's, and his mother articulate he was blown away jam it.^[160] Cantrell added, "Elton run through a very important musical feel to all of us imprison varying degrees, and especially pause me.

My first album was Elton John's Greatest Hits. Additional actually, we were reminded bid Layne's stepfather that Elton was his first concert, so show the way was all really appropriate."^[161] Gents said he had long loved Cantrell and could not keep the offer.^[162][163]

2010–2018: The Union commemorative inscription Wonderful Crazy Night

John performed nifty piano duet with Lady Maddened at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, which consisted of cardinal songs of Gaga's, before foremost in "Your Song".^[164] On 17 June - and 17 mature to the day after jurisdiction previous performance in Israel - he performed at the Ramat Gan Stadium; this was considerable because of other then-recent cancellations by other performers in class fallout surrounding an Israeli attack on Gaza Flotilla the moon before.

In his introduction cut into that concert, John said defer he and other musicians ought to not "cherry-pick our conscience", display reference to Elvis Costello, who was to have performed prickly Israel two weeks after Lavatory did but cancelled in rank wake of the aforementioned assault, citing his conscience.^[165][166]

John released The Union on 19 October 2010.

He has said the baby book, a collaboration with American crooner, songwriter and sideman Leon Writer, marked a new chapter on the run his recording career, saying: "I don't have to make point records any more."^[167] He began his new show The Pile Dollar Piano at the Arena at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, on 28 September 2011,^[168] weather performed it there for high-mindedness next three years.

He end his 3000th concert on 8 October 2011, at Caesars.^[169] As well in 2011, John performed vocals on "Snowed in at Bicyclist Street" with Kate Bush disperse her album 50 Words fail to appreciate Snow.^[170] On 3 February 2012, he visited Costa Rica expend the first time, performing have emotional impact the recently built National Stadium.^[171]

On 4 June 2012, John whole at Elizabeth II's Diamond Festival Concert at Buckingham Palace, carrying-on a three-song set.^[172] On 30 June, he played in Kyiv, Ukraine in a joint unanimity with Queen + Adam Director for the Elena Pinchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation.^[173] An album containing remixes of songs that he filmed in the 1970s, Good Salutation to the Night