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Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight, 25 March 1947) is a British singer, songwriter and pianist. An influential figure in popular culture, he is known for his flamboyant fashion, showmanship and songwriting partnership with lyricist Bernie Taupin. With over 300 million records sold worldwide, he is one of the best-selling music artists of all time. An EGOT winner, John's accolades include five Grammy Awards, two Academy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Tony Award, two Golden Globe Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award and the Kennedy Center Honors.

John learnt to play piano at an early age, winning a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music. In the 1960s, he formed the blues band Bluesology, wrote songs for other artists alongside Taupin, and worked as a session musician, before releasing his debut album, Empty Sky (1969). Throughout the next six decades, John cemented his status as a cultural icon with 32 studio albums, including Honky Château (1972), Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973), Rock of the Westies (1975), Sleeping with the Past (1989), The One (1992), Songs from the West Coast (2001), The Diving Board (2013) and The Lockdown Sessions (2021). He has also had success in musical films and theatre, composing music for The Lion King (1994), Aida (2000), and Billy Elliot the Musical (2005). John's final tour, Farewell Yellow Brick Road (2018–2023), became the highest-grossing tour ever at the time. His life and career were dramatised in the 2019 biographical film Rocketman.

John is an HIV/AIDS charity fundraiser and has been involved in the fight against AIDS since the late 1980s. In 1992 he established the Elton John AIDS Foundation, which has raised over £300 million since its inception, and a year later he began hosting his annual AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Party, which has since become one of the biggest high-profile Oscars parties in the Hollywood film industry. John was the chairman and director of Watford Football Club from 1976 to 1987, and again from 1997 to 2002, and is an honorary life president of the club. From the late 1970s to the late 1980s, John developed a severe addiction to drugs and alcohol, but has been clean and sober since 1990. In 2005 he entered a civil partnership with his long-term partner, the Canadian filmmaker David Furnish. They married in 2014, when same-sex marriage was legalised in England and Wales.

John has had nine number-one singles on the UK singles chart and the US Billboard Hot 100, as well as seven consecutive number-one albums on the US Billboard 200. He is the most successful solo artist in the history of the US Billboard charts, and was the first solo artist with UK top 10 singles across six decades. His tribute single to Diana, Princess of Wales, "Candle in the Wind 1997", a rewritten version of his 1974 single, is the best-selling chart single of all time. John was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and is a fellow of The Ivors Academy. He was appointed Knight Bachelor for services to music and charity in 1998 and was appointed a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in 2020. Rolling Stone ranked him among the greatest artists, greatest singers and greatest songwriters of all time.

Sir Elton Hercules John, nato Reginald Kenneth Dwight (Pinner, 25 marzo 1947), è un cantante, compositore e pianista britannico.

È uno dei maggiori artisti del pop contemporaneo; con la sua intensa attività musicale ha infatti contribuito notevolmente alla diffusione del piano rock e negli anni settanta è stato tra i principali esponenti del movimento. Nel corso della sua carriera ha venduto oltre 300 milioni di dischi ed è tra i primi cinque artisti mondiali con le maggiori vendite. Inoltre, insieme all'autore Bernie Taupin, forma una delle coppie di compositori più famose e prolifiche della musica contemporanea, attiva pressoché ininterrottamente dal 1967.

Nel 1994 è stato inserito nella Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, mentre nel 1998 è stato fatto Cavaliere (Knight Bachelor) dalla regina Elisabetta II per i servigi resi alla musica, alla cultura inglese e alla beneficenza (anche tramite la sua Elton John AIDS Foundation, una organizzazione non profit). Nel 2004 la rivista Rolling Stone lo ha inserito al 49º posto nella sua lista dei 100 migliori artisti musicali.

Detiene il record per il secondo singolo più venduto della storia dopo White Christmas di Bing Crosby, Candle in the Wind 1997, con una nuova versione di un suo brano del 1973, che vendette oltre 33 milioni di copie (tutti gli incassi furono devoluti al Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund).

Ha oltre cinquanta brani nelle prime quaranta posizioni delle classifiche inglesi e americane, sette album consecutivamente al primo posto nella classifica statunitense, 56 brani nella Top 40 di Billboard, 16 nella Top 10, quattro al secondo posto e 9 al primo posto nella stessa classifica; ha vinto 25 dischi di platino e 35 d'oro, 6 Grammy Award e due Premi Oscar alla migliore canzone (uno nel 1995 insieme al paroliere Tim Rice per Can You Feel the Love Tonight, tratta dalla colonna sonora de Il re leone e un altro nel 2020 per (I'm Gonna) Love Me Again insieme a Taupin, tratta dal film sulla sua vita, Rocketman).

La sua produzione conta circa 800 canzoni, di cui circa 600 pubblicate ufficialmente, e ha suonato in oltre 4600 concerti, e nel 2008 ha completato il suo personale record di essersi esibito in tutti i 50 Stati degli U.S.A..

È stato proprietario della franchigia statunitense dei L.A. Aztecs e della squadra di calcio inglese Watford.

David James Furnish (born 25 October 1962) is a Canadian CEO, artist manager, filmmaker and former advertising executive. He is the husband of British singer, songwriter, and pianist Elton John.