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* MerryInMinorKey: The chorus of "I'm Still Standing" is in a minor key, but it's actually more hopeful sounding than the verses, which are ironically in major key.
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* ''Theatre/TammyFaye'' (2023)
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As of 2024, he has achieved [[UsefulNotes/TheEGOTs an EGOT]], having won five Grammys, an Oscar for "Can You Feel the Love Tonight", a Tony for the score to ''[[Theatre/AidaJohnRice Aida]]'' and an Emmy for his ''Farewell From Dodger Stadium'' television special.
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As of 2024, he has achieved [[UsefulNotes/TheEGOTs [[MediaNotes/TheEGOTs an EGOT]], having won five Grammys, an Oscar for "Can You Feel the Love Tonight", a Tony for the score to ''[[Theatre/AidaJohnRice Aida]]'' and an Emmy for his ''Farewell From Dodger Stadium'' television special.
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As of 2024, he has achieved [[UsefulNotes/TheEGOTs an EGOT]], having won five Grammys, an Oscar for “Can You Feel the Love Tonight,” a Tony for the score to Theatre/AidaJohnRice and an Emmy for his “Farewell From Dodger Stadium” television special.
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As of 2024, he has achieved [[UsefulNotes/TheEGOTs an EGOT]], having won five Grammys, an Oscar for “Can "Can You Feel the Love Tonight,” Tonight", a Tony for the score to Theatre/AidaJohnRice ''[[Theatre/AidaJohnRice Aida]]'' and an Emmy for his “Farewell ''Farewell From Dodger Stadium” Stadium'' television special.
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** In 2021, Elton duetted with Music/EdSheeran on the latter's "Merry Christmas", in addition to featuring (with Sheeran) on the [=LadBaby=] parody "Sausage Rolls For Everyone", leading to the unusual situation of the top two songs in the British singles charts at Christmas time in 2021 being two versions of the same song, with vocals by the same artists!
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** In 2021, Elton duetted with Music/EdSheeran on the latter's "Merry Christmas", in addition to featuring (with Sheeran) on the [=LadBaby=] parody "Sausage Rolls For Everyone", leading to the unusual situation of the top two songs in the British singles charts at Christmas time in 2021 being two versions of the same song, with vocals by the same artists!
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* ChristmasSongs: "Step into Christmas", along with its B-side, "Ho! Ho Ho!" — originally released in 1973, something of a bumper year for Christmas songs by British artists [[note]] see also "Merry Xmas Everybody" by Music/{{Slade}} and "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day by [[Music/RoyWood Wizzard [[/note]]. It s been a perennial of seasonal playlists ever since.
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* ChristmasSongs: "Step into Christmas", along with its B-side, "Ho! Ho Ho!" — originally released in 1973, something of a bumper year for Christmas songs by British artists [[note]] see also "Merry Xmas Everybody" by Music/{{Slade}} and "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day by [[Music/RoyWood Wizzard Wizzard]] [[/note]]. It s It's been a perennial of seasonal playlists ever since.
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** "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" is this to ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', with the narrator not only wishing he's stayed on the farm, but expressing a desire to go back there.
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* ChristmasSongs: "Step into Christmas", along with its B-side, "Ho! Ho Ho!". "Cold as Christmas (in the Middle of the Year)" name-checks the holiday [[AvertedTrope but is not itself a Christmas song]].
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* ChristmasSongs: "Step into Christmas", along with its B-side, "Ho! Ho Ho!". Ho!" — originally released in 1973, something of a bumper year for Christmas songs by British artists [[note]] see also "Merry Xmas Everybody" by Music/{{Slade}} and "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day by [[Music/RoyWood Wizzard [[/note]]. It s been a perennial of seasonal playlists ever since.
** In 2021, Elton duetted with Music/EdSheeran on the latter's "Merry Christmas", in addition to featuring (with Sheeran) on the [=LadBaby=] parody "Sausage Rolls For Everyone", leading to the unusual situation of the top two songs in the British singles charts at Christmas time in 2021 being two versions of the same song, with vocals by the same artists!
** "Cold as Christmas (in the Middle of the Year)" name-checks the holiday [[AvertedTrope but is not itself a Christmas song]].
** In 2021, Elton duetted with Music/EdSheeran on the latter's "Merry Christmas", in addition to featuring (with Sheeran) on the [=LadBaby=] parody "Sausage Rolls For Everyone", leading to the unusual situation of the top two songs in the British singles charts at Christmas time in 2021 being two versions of the same song, with vocals by the same artists!
** "Cold as Christmas (in the Middle of the Year)" name-checks the holiday [[AvertedTrope but is not itself a Christmas song]].
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* LastNoteNightmare: In "Gulliver/Hay Chewed/Reprise", the "Gulliver" section end with wordless vocals that grow louder and more heavily reverberated before [[SmashCut jumping straight into]] the "Hay Chewed" section. It could also double as one for the entire ''Empty Sky'' album, since it was used as the representative snippet for "Gulliver" during the RepriseMedley that ends the album.
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* LastNoteNightmare: In "Gulliver/Hay Chewed/Reprise", the "Gulliver" section end ends with wordless vocals that grow louder and more heavily reverberated before [[SmashCut jumping straight into]] the "Hay Chewed" section. It could also double as one for the entire ''Empty Sky'' album, since it was used as the representative snippet for "Gulliver" during the RepriseMedley that ends the album.
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** Doubly so for ''Regimental Sgt. Zippo'', which is probably why it went unreleased for decades.
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He is well-known for his deft sense of humor, massive spending sprees, and very public tantrums. He is also well-known for wearing odd costumes and crazy glasses, especially in TheSeventies. His fortune is estimated at £175 Million, making him one of the most successful musicians of all time.
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He is well-known for his deft sense of humor, massive spending sprees, and very public tantrums. He is also well-known for wearing odd costumes and crazy glasses, especially in TheSeventies. His fortune is estimated at £175 Million, making him one of the most successful musicians of all time.
time. Elton is also well known for having a wide-ranging musical taste, and he has championed new and breaking artists throughout his career. Since 2015, he has hosted ''Elton John's Rocket Hour'' on Apple Music's Beats One station, where he regularly plays and interviews his favorite new artists.
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* RepriseMedley: His ''Empty Sky'' album ends with a medley consisting of brief snippets of all the songs on the album in the order they appeared.
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* ''The Lockdown Sessions'' (2021)[[note]] This album is made up of a series of collaborations recorded during a break of his farewell tour caused by [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic something a bit familiar by now]], with some of the artists on the album including Music/StevieWonder, Music/LilNasX, and Music/DuaLipa.[[/note]]
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* ''The Lockdown Sessions'' (2021)[[note]] (2021) [[/index]][[note]] This album is made up of a series of collaborations recorded during a break of his farewell tour caused by [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic something a bit familiar by now]], with some of the artists on the album including Music/StevieWonder, Music/LilNasX, and Music/DuaLipa.[[/note]]
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Changing his name by deed poll to "Elton Hercules John" in 1970 (''Elton'' for saxophonist Elton Dean, ''John'' for a singer Reg's old band Bluesology backed up, Music/LongJohnBaldry, and ''Hercules'', well from a racehorse in BritCom ''Series/SteptoeAndSon''), Elton (with Bernie's lyrics in tow) would gain a reputation as a singer-songwriter-pianist par excellence. By 1972, he had begun to wear increasingly flamboyant costumes, clothes, and eyeglasses, which became a trademark for him until the mid-[[TheEighties 1980s]]. He became an unexpected superstar, with a string of highly successful albums such as ''Tumbleweed Connection'', ''Madman Across the Water'', ''Honky Chateau'', ''Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player'', ''Music/GoodbyeYellowBrickRoad'' (a double), and ''Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy''. His success tapered by the late-[[TheSeventies 1970s]], especially after outing himself in 1976. In the meantime, he appeared in the film ''Born to Boogie'' as himself, and in ''Music/{{Tommy}}'' singing "Pinball Wizard".
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Changing his name by deed poll to "Elton Hercules John" in 1970 (''Elton'' for saxophonist Elton Dean, ''John'' for a singer Reg's old band Bluesology backed up, Music/LongJohnBaldry, Creator/LongJohnBaldry, and ''Hercules'', well from a racehorse in BritCom ''Series/SteptoeAndSon''), Elton (with Bernie's lyrics in tow) would gain a reputation as a singer-songwriter-pianist par excellence. By 1972, he had begun to wear increasingly flamboyant costumes, clothes, and eyeglasses, which became a trademark for him until the mid-[[TheEighties 1980s]]. He became an unexpected superstar, with a string of highly successful albums such as ''Tumbleweed Connection'', ''Madman Across the Water'', ''Honky Chateau'', ''Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player'', ''Music/GoodbyeYellowBrickRoad'' (a double), and ''Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy''. His success tapered by the late-[[TheSeventies 1970s]], especially after outing himself in 1976. In the meantime, he appeared in the film ''Born to Boogie'' as himself, and in ''Music/{{Tommy}}'' singing "Pinball Wizard".
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Elton is a former chairman (and the current Life President) of [[UsefulNotes/BritishFootyTeams Watford Football Club]], and founding chairman of the Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF), which he founded in 1992 after the death of Ryan White, a hemophiliac teenager from Indiana who developed AIDS after being infected with HIV from a contaminated clotting factor treatment. He befriended White after misinformed parents and teachers in his community protested against the boy's return to school.
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Elton is a former chairman (and the current Life President) of [[UsefulNotes/BritishFootyTeams Watford Football Club]], which he supported as a child; he took over the club in 1976 when they were in the fourth division, and went onto oversee the most successful period in the club's history (rising to the first division, qualifying for the UEFA Cup and reaching the [[UsefulNotes/TheFACup FA Cup]] final). He's also the founding chairman of the Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF), which he founded in 1992 after the death of Ryan White, a hemophiliac teenager from Indiana who developed AIDS after being infected with HIV from a contaminated clotting factor treatment. He befriended White after misinformed parents and teachers in his community protested against the boy's return to school.
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* ''The Lion King'' (2019) – soundtrack to the remake of the 1994 film
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* ''The Lion King'' (2019) – soundtrack to the remake of the 1994 film
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* ''Live from Moscow 1979'' (recorded in 1979, released in 2020) with percussionist Ray Cooper
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* ''I've Been Loving You'' (1968)
* ''The Thom Bell Sessions'' (1979)
* ''The Complete Thom Bell Sessions'' (1989)
* ''Remixed'' (2003)
Extended plays
* ''I've Been Loving You'' (1968)
* ''The Thom Bell Sessions'' (1979)
* ''The Complete Thom Bell Sessions'' (1989)
* ''Remixed'' (2003)
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** ''Honky Chateau'' saw Elton abandon much of the dramatic singer-songwriter style of his previous albums for one with a more rock-based style and sound, de-emphasising the orchestral backdrops using his live backing band on all of the tracks for the first time rather than use session musicians.
** ''Rock of the Westies'' found Elton using a harder group sound with strong R&B, funk, disco and BluesRock influences, retaining only guitarist Davey Johnstone and percussionist Ray Cooper from the classic band and expanding to a seven-piece group.
** ''A Single Man'' used stronger SoftRock influences, with Bernie Taupin entirely replaced as full-time lyricist by Gary Osbourne.
** ''Victim of Love'' saw Elton dabble full-time into disco music at the end of disco's popularity; Elton only provided lead vocals while Pete Bellotte wrote or co-wrote all of the songs (aside from a discofied cover of [[Music/ChuckBerry Chuck Berry's]] "Johnny B. Goode".
** ''Too Low for Zero'' saw Bernie's full-time return (along with Elton's classic band from TheSeventies), but used [[TheEighties 1980's]] pop production values and more synthesizers.
** The synthesizers/1980's production saw heavier use on ''IceOnFire'', which also saw most of Elton's classic band laid off (again) in favor of a new band. Strong '80's funk/soul influences also appeared.
** ''Reg Strikes Back'' saw a new sound for Elton ''himself'', as throat surgery in 1987 rendered him unable to sing at his trademark falsetto.
** ''Made in England'', while AOR/MOR in places, showed Elton return more to his 1970's style, with more dramatic orchestral parts (care of Paul Buckmaster, who arranged the orchestral parts of his early-1970's albums).
** ''The Big Picture'' showed full AOR/MOR influence with heavily synthesized arrangements.
** ''Songs from the West Coast'' saw Elton used a more stripped-down sound even more retro than on ''Made in England'', entirely recorded on analog tape and returning Elton to his singer-songwriter roots.
** ''The Diving Board'' was the most pared-down album in years, with an emphasis on piano, bass and drums (with minimal additions) and more of an intimate feel.
** ''Honky Chateau'' saw Elton abandon much of the dramatic singer-songwriter style of his previous albums for one with a more rock-based style and sound, de-emphasising the orchestral backdrops using his live backing band on all of the tracks for the first time rather than use session musicians.
** ''Rock of the Westies'' found Elton using a harder group sound with strong R&B, funk, disco and BluesRock influences, retaining only guitarist Davey Johnstone and percussionist Ray Cooper from the classic band and expanding to a seven-piece group.
** ''A Single Man'' used stronger SoftRock influences, with Bernie Taupin entirely replaced as full-time lyricist by Gary Osbourne.
** ''Victim of Love'' saw Elton dabble full-time into disco music at the end of disco's popularity; Elton only provided lead vocals while Pete Bellotte wrote or co-wrote all of the songs (aside from a discofied cover of [[Music/ChuckBerry Chuck Berry's]] "Johnny B. Goode".
** ''Too Low for Zero'' saw Bernie's full-time return (along with Elton's classic band from TheSeventies), but used [[TheEighties 1980's]] pop production values and more synthesizers.
** The synthesizers/1980's production saw heavier use on ''IceOnFire'', which also saw most of Elton's classic band laid off (again) in favor of a new band. Strong '80's funk/soul influences also appeared.
** ''Reg Strikes Back'' saw a new sound for Elton ''himself'', as throat surgery in 1987 rendered him unable to sing at his trademark falsetto.
** ''Made in England'', while AOR/MOR in places, showed Elton return more to his 1970's style, with more dramatic orchestral parts (care of Paul Buckmaster, who arranged the orchestral parts of his early-1970's albums).
** ''The Big Picture'' showed full AOR/MOR influence with heavily synthesized arrangements.
** ''Songs from the West Coast'' saw Elton used a more stripped-down sound even more retro than on ''Made in England'', entirely recorded on analog tape and returning Elton to his singer-songwriter roots.
** ''The Diving Board'' was the most pared-down album in years, with an emphasis on piano, bass and drums (with minimal additions) and more of an intimate feel.
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Elton is a former chairman (and the current Life President) of [[UsefulNotes/BritishFootyTeams Watford Football Club, Club]], and founding chairman of the Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF), which he founded in 1992 after the death of Ryan White, a hemophiliac teenager from Indiana who developed AIDS after being infected with HIV from a contaminated clotting factor treatment. He befriended White after misinformed parents and teachers in his community protested against the boy's return to school.
