Elton John's biography

Reginald Kenneth Dwight is 75 years old singer born at Pinner. He was born on Tuesday 25th of March 1947. Elton is often nicknamed as Elton John, The Rocket Man, Sharon, Elton Hercules John, Elton John AIDS Foundation, The Pinball Wizard, Reginald Dwight. According to year of birth 1947 Elton belongs to Boomers. Birthday on 25th of March means Elton is Aries. Aries is the most active sign of Zodiac, one born with this sign is a very quick learner, aggressive and passionate.He was married 2 times.

Reginald Kenneth Dwight's spouse

He is married to David Furnish

He is native english speaker. He is white british. He is citizen of United Kingdom. His primary profession is to be singer. You can know him also as composer, film actor, keyboardist, pianist, recording artist. He is recently known as HIV/AIDS activist.

Elton John's dad

Elton John's father's name is Stanley Dwight.

Elton John's mom

Elton John's mother's name is Sheila Eileen Farebrother.

Elton John's family

Elton John's husband

He is known as film director. His husband was born on Thursday 25th of October 1962 in Scarborough.

Elton John's ex husbands

Renate Blauel

Elton John and Renate Blauel have been together since 1984 for 4 years.

Elton John's schools

We found 3 schools Elton attended. Complete list of schools: Royal Academy of Music, University of London, St. Thomas Aquinas High School.

Detailed informations about Elton´s schools

He studied university - Royal Academy of Music.

Elton John's career

Elton´s main focus is to be singer. Elton is famous thanks to My Song, Goodbye Yellowbrick Road & Candle in the Wind. He focuses on rock music. Maybe you are curious what instrument does he play ? He plays piano.

Is Elton John gay ?

Elton is known to be gay.

Awards and competitions

Elton John's Awards

He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 1996 and awarded Knighthood of the British Empire in the 1998 Queen's New Years Honors List for his services to music and fundraising for AIDS charities.
He is a Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter.
In 1995, he was awarded the Polar Music Prize, the Royal Swedish Academy of Music Award.
In 2000, he was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award (1999 season) for Best New Musical for "The Lion King" at the Lyceum Theatre.
In 2002, he was presented (along with musical partner Bernie Taupin) with the Music Industry Trusts' Award for his outstanding contribution to the British music industry.
In 2004, he was the winner of the Q Classic Songwriter Award.
He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6915 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on October 23, 1975.
He won Broadway's Tony Award for Best Musical "Billy Elliot" for which he composed the music and Lee Hall wrote the book and lyrics.
His musical, "Billy Elliott The Musical" at the Drury Lane Productions in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2015 Joseph Jefferson Equity Award for Best Large Musical Production.
He was awarded the CH (Member of the Companion of Honour) in the 2020 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to Music and Charity in Berkshire, England.
Elton's Golden Globe win for Best Original Song "I'm Gonna Love Me Again" from Rocketman (2019), is the first time he has ever won an award with writing partner Bernie Taupin (Beverly Hilton, Los Angeles / Jan. 5, 2020).

Elton John's Rankings

He ranked #17 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Rock & Roll.

Elton John's Nominations

Elton was nominated for Academy Award for Best Original Song for work Circle of Life in 14 February 1995
He was nominated for Grammy Award for Song of the Year for work Can You Feel the Love Tonight in 6 January 1995
Elton was nominated for Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media for work Can You Feel the Love Tonight in 6 January 1995
Elton was nominated for Academy Award for Best Original Song for work Hakuna Matata in 1995

What else you don't know about Elton John ?

Elton´s middle name is Hercules.

What Elton John has done for a first time

In 1979, he was the first Western rock star to perform in Israel and the USSR.
He performed his first and only concert in Puerto Rico in the Coliseo Jose Miguel Agrelot on April 28, 2007.
Elton's Golden Globe win for Best Original Song "I'm Gonna Love Me Again" from Rocketman (2019), is the first time he has ever won an award with writing partner Bernie Taupin (Beverly Hilton, Los Angeles / Jan. 5, 2020).

Elton John's Donations

In 1992, he decided that all profits from his singles would be donated to AIDS charities and formed the Elton John AIDS Foundation. The foundation has become one of the world's largest nonprofit AIDS organizations.

Elton John's quotes

I haven't made a good album in a long while. Not since 1976 and Blue Moves.
If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.
[after being asked about his sexuality in the 1970s] I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats, though.
There's so much you're expected to do and you follow a pattern. You make a record, you do a video. I like to break the rules a little bit more and I did in the 1970s, I should try a little bit more now.
[on Madonna] Anyone who lip syncs in public on stage when you pay Â£75 to see them should be shot. That's me off her Christmas card list. But do I give a toss? No.
[after breaking his fingernails by playing so hard] If I had one finger left, I'd play for you.
[on performing at the Colosseum in 2005]: I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life, I love the food, I love the people, I love the attitudes of Italians.
I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano.
The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.
I want to bring my songs and melodies to hip-hop beats. It may be a disaster, it could be fantastic, but you don't know until you try.
I've dodged so many bullets. Not just because of unsafe sex, but because of the amount of drugs I did, the amount of alcohol, the amount of work I was doing. I started the Elton John AIDS Foundation because I got so lucky.
[on Dusty Springfield] Hers was the first fan club I belonged to. I had pictures of Dusty all over my walls.
I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money.
[after this was revealed he had spent Â£293,000 on flowers in less than two years] Yes, I like flowers.
[2007] In the early '70s, there were at least ten albums released every week that were fantastic. Now you're lucky to find ten albums a year of that quality. And there are more albums released each week now than there were then.
I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.
I didn't have sex until I was 23 and that was with a man. I made up for lost time after that in a hurry. I wish I could have had sex when I was, like, 14, 15 or 16 because that's such an exciting age to have sex.
There's a lot of Liberace in me and as a gay artist as such, but I am an openly gay man. A lot of my audience is the same kind of audience that Liberace would have had and they didn't seem to give a shit. I think that's so great.
[on Hillary Clinton] There is no-one more qualified to lead America. I'm amazed by the misogynistic attitudes of some of the people in this country, and I say to hell with them. I love you Hillary, I'll be there for you.
Some people don't get hyped enough, people like David Ackles, who could well be hyped as much as I've been. But once you're successful, they're going to try to get as much hype going as possible.
I tried to commit suicide one day. It was a very Woody Allen-type suicide. I turned on the gas and left all the windows open.
An overview of my career is usually ... glasses ... homosexuality ... Watford Football Club ... tantrums ... flowers. But the music was pretty phenomenal, you know.
Fame attracts lunatics. Princess Diana, Gianni Versace, John Lennon, Michael Jackson, all dead. Two of them shot outside their houses. None of this would have happened if they hadn't been famous. I never had a bodyguard, ever, until Gianni died.
[on "Born This Way" by Lady Gaga] I've had the privilege to hear it as she played it to me last year. It's phenomenal and will be absolutely huge. You can't stop her - she's a freight train, she's a great writer and a great performer.
[on Rod Stewart] Bar none, Rod's the best singer I've heard in rock'n'roll.
[2012] By all rights, I shouldn't be here. I should be dead, six feet under, in a wooden box. I should have contracted HIV in the 1980s and died in the 1990s, just like Freddie Mercury, Rock Hudson and many friends and loved ones.
I like Simon Cowell, but what he does is television entertainment. There have been some good acts, but the only way to sustain a career is to pay your dues in small, shit clubs.
It's very hard to be a frontman. I mean there's not many you can think of that have actually pulled it off. You can think of Jagger [Mick Jagger], you can think of Daltrey [Roger Daltrey], and then you can think of Freddie Mercury.
Queen were one of the bands to come out of the Seventies that were so innovative. I mean, when you look at videos today, Queen started videos off really. They were the people that had all the ideas to begin with.
The historic fight for equality must go on. Let's get on and legalise same-sex marriage. I know a lot of people will say we should count ourselves lucky to live in a country that allows civil partnerships, and call it quits there. I don't accept that.
There is a world of difference between calling someone your "partner" and calling them your "husband". "Partner" is a word that should be preserved for people you play tennis with, or work alongside in business.
We should show that we are country committed to the sacred institution of marriage, proud of our tolerant heritage, and brave enough to let lovers like David and I call each other a husband.
The BBC Theatre is so small and compact, I love playing those kind of venues 'cause you can actually see the audience and touch 'em practically.
We focus so much on celebrity in our culture, and we don't focus on the right things. I hate the celebrity that is around now. The vacuous, talentless horror shows that get paid millions of dollars for nothing.
I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems.
Freddie Mercury could out-party me, which is saying something. We'd be up for nights, sitting there at 11 in the morning, still flying high.
[on Live Aid (1985)] It was a wonderful time, it was a wonderful day and it's all thanks to Bob [Bob Geldof].
[on Live Aid (1985)] I got there in a helicopter, yes, from my house in Windsor. Not being grand or anything like that, because I just thought the fucking traffic would be a nightmare.
[on Russia's laws banning the promotion of homosexuality] Is Tchaikovsky's [Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky] beautiful music 'sexually perverting'?
[on the Armenian Genocide] As an organization [Elton John AIDS Foundation], one of our mottos is that no one gets left behind, and The Promise (2016) is about people who got left behind and denied their rightful place in history. [2017]
There's so much good music out there, much better than all the pop shit they play on Radio 1. I never liked shows like The X Factor (2004); I'm glad they are on the way out.
[in 2018] When you listen to even the cheesiest songs from the '50s, '60s and '70s - they are songs. There are a lot of songs in the charts I can't sing, it's just a beat.
The new version of The Lion King (2019) was a huge disappointment to me, because I believe they messed the music up. Music was so much a part of the original and the music in the current film didn't have the same impact. The magic and joy were lost.
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