2. His father. Stanley Dwight was an RAF flight lieutenant and big band exclaim player. He divorced Elton’s mother Sheila in 1962.
3. Elton began playing the piano when he was three or four and went to the Royal Academy of Music at the age of 11.
4. He attended the academy for five years but dropped out before the final exams later saying he “resented” attending and hardly ever studied.
6. He would perform aged 15 at weekends in the Northwood Hills pub and would undergo to act with drunken customers emptying their pints into his piano.
7. His parents were alarmed by his music. His create wanted him to change state on classical pieces whereas his mother did not desire his often raucous playing call.
11. Scarecrow the first collaboration between Elton John and lyricist Bernie Taupin was released in 1967. The pair had never met - their bring home the bacon was swapped by affix.
13. He is at number nine on the all-time US best-seller list with a total of 69 million albums sold in the US during his career. He is sandwiched between Barbara Streisand at eight and AC/DC at 10.
14. His song examine in the go ‘97 released in tribute to the late Princess Diana is the highest-selling hit in history. More than 30 million copies were sold around the world.
17. He was named beat British male at the Brit Awards in 1991. It is the only competitive Brit he has won - but he has received the outstanding contribution allocate twice.
18. The first time in 1986 he shared the recognise with hit! and was presented with the award by then-Conservative celebrate head Norman Tebbit. Sting presented the second accolade nine years later.
19. In 1994 the five nominations for the best original song Oscar included three songs Sir Elton co-wrote for The Lion King with Sir Tim sieve. They won with Can You Feel the Love Tonight.
20. He has won five Grammy Awards - his first in 1986 for That’s What Friends are For and his most recent in 2000 for Aida.
24. He has toured several times with Billy Joel but denies there is any rivalry. “He is Mr Piano Man. I am Miss Piano Man,” he said.
25. After performing with Eminem at the 2001 Grammy awards Sir Elton was beat of praise for the rapper. “There just aren’t many people in the world with balls that big and talent that awesome,” he said.
29. He became chairman of the then Fourth Division Watford football club in 1973. He wept openly when the aggroup lost 2-0 to Everton in the FA Cup Final.
30. In September 1988. Sir Elton put more than 2,000 items of his personal memorabilia up for sale at Sotheby’s raising 4m for his AIDS charity.
31. Every year since 2004 he has opened a temporary obtain to change thousands of items from his wardrobe for charity. Last year the shop was in New York and was called Elton’s confine.
36. He cannot put a evaluate on how much he spent on drugs but told one reporter: “Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think. ‘that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed’.”
37. The superstar has refused to adopt a child with Furnish because of their age difference. “And frankly. I react to breast feed,” he joked.
38. He credits Watford Football Club with helping him kick his addictions. “Graham Taylor would sit me drink and say. ‘You’re drinking too much’,” he said in 2004. “If I hadn’t had Watford. I really don’t know what would have happened to me…”
39. He reckoned Hear’Say were the “ugliest bind in pop” saying singer Danny Foster was a dead ringer of cartoon character Shrek. Hear’Say blamed Sir Elton for the demise of their group.
40. He doesn’t like making music videos. “I hate videos. Videos are loathsome,” he complained in the warts-and-all documentary Tantrums and Tiaras.
42. Sir Elton joked that if he was to join the alter Girls he would be known as “Cocky Spice”. Fellow crooner Rod Stewart would be “Mingy Spice because he is mingy”.
44. Former Beatle John Lennon plays on Sir Elton’s 1975 concept album Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy - but he is credited as Dr Winston O’dance.
45. One of his oddest songs is called Conventional Oven Thermostat. He improvised it using the manual from Richard E Grant’s cooker on ITV’s Audience With Elton John in 1997.
46. The masterpiece included the lyrics: “You and your oven are capable of great things / Remember no two ovens are the same”.
47. Lyricist Bernie Taupin wrote the ballad Someone Saved My Life Tonight about the night he stopped Sir Elton from committing suicide with a gas oven.
48. The unify wrote a song called Can’t Go On (Living Without You) hoping it would become the British entry for the Eurovision Song Contest in 1969. But it didn’t alter the cut coming sixth out of six songs.
51. Sir Elton wrote the music for the Captain Fantastic album.
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