Pop singer Elton John full name was Elton Hercules John. He was a British singer, pianist and composer. He was born on 25th March 1947, in Pinner Hamlet (suburb), in the country of England. John parents are Stanley Dwight (father) and Sheila Eileen (mother).
John parents are married in the year 1945 when the family moved into the nearby semi detached house. John’s father Stanley Dwight was born in 1925 and was died in 1991. His mother Sheila Eileen was born in 1925 and was died in 2017.
John was raised in the Pinner suburb (Hamlet) of the London. He learned to the play piano at the early age that was forming the blues and Bluesology in the year 1962. John had leaving the Bluesology in the year 1967 to embark on the solo career.
John had been educated at the “Pinner County Grammar School” until the age was 17. In this time, John was begun to consider as career in music. Elton John father served in the Royal Air Force. He tried to steer him towards a more conventional career like banking.
John said that his wild stage costumes and performances are the way of the restrictive childhood. John had started playing his grandmother’s piano as the young boy.
Pop singer Elton John had won the junior scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music at the age of 11.
John had promptly played back the 4 page piece by the German British composer “George Frideric Handel” like a gramophone record after hearing it for the first time.
John had attended the Saturday classes at the Academy in central London. He had said that he had enjoyed playing “Frederic Chopin and Johann Sebastian Bach”. He had also enjoyed singing in the choir during these classes.
Elton John was described as a diligent classical student. Several instructors attested that he was a model student. On that time, last few years, he had learned lessons from a private tutor in addition to his classes at the Academy.
John had met English songwriter “Bernie Taupin” after they were both answered the advert for the songwriters. They wrote the songs for the other artists and the john had worked as the session musician for the artists.
John had released his debut album “Empty Sky” in the year 1969. After that, he had formed the Elton John Band. This music band released his first hit single Your Song.
In this time, Elton John had released a streak of chart-topping albums in the US and the UK. It began with the album “Rock of the Westies” in 1975. His biggest success reached its peak in the 1970s.
Elton John had continued his success in the 1980s and 1990s. He had several hit singles and albums in both decades. He continued to record new music from then on.
John was also successful in the musical films and theater. He composed music for “The Lion King,” “Aida,” and “Billy Elliot” the Musical. “Farewell Yellow Brick Road,” Elton John’s ongoing farewell tour, is set to finish in 2023.
Pop singer Elton John life and the career that were dramatized in the year 2019 biopic Rocketman.
John was an HIVS/AIDS charity had fundraiser. He had been involved in the fight that was against the AIDS since the 1980s. Elton John had established the Elton John AIDS Foundation in the year 1992. It had risen over the 300 million since the inception.
John had sold over the 300 million records worldwide. It had made him as one of the best selling artists of all the time.
Elton John had more than the 50 top hits in the UK Singles Chart. US Billboard Hot 100 that was including the 9 number ones in the UK and US.
“In 1997, his tribute single “Candle in the Wind” was a rewritten version dedicated to Princess Diana. It was originally written & released in the year of 1974.” Elton John albums sold 33 million copies worldwide. It was the best selling chart single of all time.
