Elton John Biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. During his fruitful and very successful career, the performer has already sold more than millions of records, many of his songs and albums kept in the first places in the world charts. In the year, thousands of people gathered for his concert in the Central Park of New York. In the photo: Elton John he is the owner of numerous awards, including Grammy and Oscar, Sir of the British Empire in the year of Elton was recognized as American listeners the best musician of all time.

Elton John was remembered by the listeners not only with his beautiful music, but also with an extravagant and unique stage image - bright costumes and, of course, permanent large glasses. Childhood and family in the family of pilot-officer Stanley and housewife Sheila Dwight on March 25 of the year was born a boy who received the name Reginald Kennet at baptism. The Duyats lived in the county of Middlex, which in the year became the northwestern district of London.

Elton John in childhood in the neighboring house lived his grandparents on the maternal side, who took much more participation in the upbringing of Reginald than his father. The only child in the family, Reggie had overweight, wore glasses and was afraid of his father. Having matured, his son called him "cruel snob." Mother, a very liberal nature, constantly brought home the records that introduced the boy with music: the jazz singer Kay Starr, the instrumenter-instrumenter Billy May and the country-singer Tennessee Ernie Ford became the melodies of his childhood.

Later, his idol was Pioneer Rock-N-Roll Baddy Holly. Sheila Dwight with her son during his tour in the USSR at 3 years old, the boy, inspired by the grandmother's game of the piano, and he showed interest in the instrument and learned a complex waltz by ear. Not yet reaching the pedals, he surprised his relatives with intricate melodies. Father bought him a used tool for 68 pounds.

Little Reginald Kenneth Dwight at the age of 11, the brilliant self -taught already entered the Royal Conservatory, which is in London, and became the youngest scholarship in the history of the educational institution. At the audition, he by ear, without looking at the notes, reproduced the work of Handel played by the teacher. Elton John in school years, meanwhile, the relationship between parents became more and more intense.

Father often visited business trips, but when he returned, he tried to impose new rules to his son: how and how much is, what to dress in. Once my mom and dad were in love, but there was no trace of my birth to my birth. They seemed to hate each other. The father was a strict, detached person with a terrible character. Mom loved to argue and had a tendency to depression.

When they were together, they were either silent or quarreled. They quarreled mainly because of me, because of my upbringing. More and more often, Reginald had the feeling that Sheila and Stanley remained together only because of him, and he was gnawing a feeling of guilt. At such moments, he locked himself in the room, listened to records of his beloved Little Richard, Ray Charles and Jerry Lee Lewis and imagined himself in their place.

That's just, he understood, with such an appearance he was unlikely to be able to become a star of rock and roll. Elton John: From 4 to 72 when the boy was 13, the parents divorced. Despite a difficult relationship with his father, the gap greatly affected his spiritual well -being. Stanley started a new family, and Reginald had four impatient brothers and sisters, with whom, according to the musician, the man was akin to more than with him.

Stanley Dwight, Elton John's father, married the artist Fred Feirbraser with his second wife, who had a warm relationship with a teenager. Father criticized the choice of his son, even after a divorce from Sheila. So, when the matured Reginald got a job at the bank, but soon left, Stanley was beside himself with rage. He wrote his son an angry letter in which he predicted the future on the street if the guy does not return to the bank.

Unlike his father, stepfather supported the music young man. Elton John with his stepfather Fred Feirbrazer 2 weeks before the end of the Conservatory Reginald threw his studies, deciding to devote himself entirely to his musical career in rock and roll music. The guy got a job in a musical publishing company, and also played the piano in bars, and then joined a group called Bluesology.

He himself came up with his stage pseudonym, borrowing part of the names of the members of the group: Saxophonist Elton Dina and singer John Boldry. Neither one nor the other was listening, but this failure was the beginning of something more. On the Library of Reginald, admitting that it is difficult for him to create texts, he received a sealed envelope from the organizer of the talent contest, inside of which there was a stack of papers with songs written by a man named Bernie Topin.

Elton John and Bernie Topin in his youth met young people and began to work together, justifying the workplace in the house of Elton's parents. Bernie got extraordinary texts that catch the public, and Reginald composed equally memorable arrangements.Topin became a permanent author throughout the singer’s career, together they composed more than thirty albums, and the very first joint song was the composition of “Your Song”.

You did not immediately publish her young Elton John, she was released by the second single in the second album of Elton John “Elton John”, which was released in the year. The second disc presented a talented artist not only of the British, but also by the American public, so successfully that the record received a nomination for Grammy as the best album of the year.

And the single "Youor Song" became a hit that Elton John still performs at every concert. In May, he performed it live BBC. It was a step forward. There was something in his voice that raised the entire British music scene slightly higher. In the year of the novice musician, Steve Brown noticed, who worked in the advertising department of the EMI music label.

With his assistance, Elton John's composition began to twist on the radio, and soon the performer was invited to tour in the United States. In September of the same year, Elton spoke brilliantly at the Trubadur club, met his idol, singer and composer Leon Russell and, having spent three weeks in the States, returned home, intoxicated by attention. The photo from Elton’s speech in Trubadur a month later Elton gave large -scale touring in the United States, as a result of which the Time publication called him a “musical superman”, capable of surpassing all the cult groups of x.

Even then, an extravagant image of the singer began to form, which today can be recognized by hypertrophied points of the compromise between myopia and style, which during his career he had more than 4 thousand, and causing scenari costumes in the style of the fashion at the time of his career of Glam Rock. He deliberately brought stage costumes to the point of absurdity, take at least a costume of a giant chicken.

One of Elton John's most striking costumes at the dawn of his career critics predicted Elton John Smooth sunset, believing that Eltonomania was a temporary phenomenon caused by the public interest in catchy outfits and shocking behavior of the singer on stage. How mistaken they were. The song took a line and the rating of the best songs of all time according to Rolling Stone, the most authoritative musical publication.

The Singer confirmed the small part of Elton John's stage costumes by the following successful albums “Caribou” and “Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy” after John Lennon heard several surroundings of his songs performed by the singer, he suggested that Elton's joint performance in the hall in the year Madison-Square Garden, where they performed several songs The Beatles, including Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and I Saw Her Standing Here.

This performance of two legends of British music went down in history as the last exit of Lennon on stage. In the same year, he acquired a mansion near the Windsor castle and made friends with the royal family. Elton John - Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word E years were the peak of the singer’s success, later his career was a little decline, although he continued to record albums and go to tours.

In the year, the singer became one of the first stars of the world's size to accept the invitation to perform in Israel, which was already an event in itself. But for Soviet citizens, May became the iconic in the same year, when Elton John broke through the “iron curtain” and gave several large -scale concerts in Moscow and Leningrad. Representatives of the Ministry of Culture listened to his work and did not find any attacks on the socialist system and Soviet culture.

According to eyewitnesses, the tickets were distributed by large form between nomenclature workers and members of their families. Some were lucky to buy a ticket with a miracle, just before the concert, from the hands of resellers. He was allocated a “seagull” with a personal driver and a translator. The singer spent seven days in the USSR. For him, a trip to the USSR was exotic, but in any comparison he could not go with what effect his arrival had on Soviet citizens.

Elton John became a sip of freedom. Elton John on Soviet television in the year the musician gave a free concert in the Central Park of New York. The record -like thousand people gathered to listen to the shocking singer. Elton pleased those gathered with his hits and rare songs, for example, “White Lady White Powder”, and also performed a cover on Imagine Lennon as a sign of recognition of a close friend and colleague.

During the performance, he replaced several costumes, the most memorable of them became Donald Daka's costume. A free concert of the musician was collected by thousands of people, on which Elton performed, was visible from the window of the apartment of John Lennon. Three months later, the ex-Bitter was shot at the threshold of his house.

Elton wrote in memory of his friend the song “Empty Garden”, and two years later he took part in the concert of Lennon’s memory, held in Madison-Square-Garden. Together with him, the wife of the late Yoko sang on the stage, he and their son Sean, who Elton John was the godfather. Later, the singer said that the reason was an unsuccessful marriage with the sound engineer-German Renata Blawel.

Elton was jammed by marijuana stress, because of which polyps appeared in his throat, and a quiet pleasant voice began to sound dull. He had an operation on ligaments, but since then the timbre has nevertheless differed from the usual one. The death of the child was a turning point in the singer’s life - under a strong impression of the tragedy, he decided on treatment for alcoholism, drug addiction and bulimia and publicly recognized himself as a homosexual.

In the year, Elton John wrote a wonderful soundtrack for the cartoon “King Leo”, three songs from which were nominated for Oscar. In the year, Elton John's merits were awarded by the British government-he received the title of a bachelor knight and became a commander of the Order of the British Empire. In John, he was shocked by the death of his friend Princess Diana in a car disaster.

At her funeral, he performed a new version of the famous “Candle in the Wind”. More than thirty million copies of Singela were sold all over the world, which the singer had never performed at concerts. The musician donated the entire profit of more than $ 47 million to the princess fund. The act was appreciated by the Queen of Great Britain, and the singer was awarded the Sir title in M.

Elton John plays Candle in the Wind at Diana's funeral with the beginning of the 21st century for John came the stage of close cooperation with many artists, filming in films, work on Broadway musicals. In the year, he spoke at the Grammy ceremony with Eminem, who is known for his homophobia. But with a respected colleague, Eminem was extremely tolerant. In the period C, he visited Kyiv, Baku, Rostov-on-Don with concerts.

In the year, he again arrived in Kyiv with the updated composition of the Queen group. Elton John and Ed Shiran in M ​​Singer introduced his 32 Wonderful Crazy Night studio album, which eventually became the latter in his rich career.