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Chris Rea
Chris Rea (, ) (born Christopher Anton Rea, 4 March 1951, Middlesbrough) is an English singer-songwriter, recognisable for his distinctive, husky voice and slide guitar playing. The British Hit Singles & Albums stated that Rea was "one of the most popular UK singer-songwriters of the late 1980s. He was already a major European star by the time he finally cracked the UK Top 10 with his 18th chart entry; "The Road to Hell (Part 2)".
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Christopher Hampton
Christopher James Hampton CBE, FRSL (born 26 January 1946) is a British playwright, screen writer and film director. He is best known for his play based on the novel Les Liaisons dangereuses and the film version Dangerous Liaisons (1988) and also more recently for writing the nominated screenplay for the film adaptation of Ian McEwan's Atonement.
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Chuck Berry
Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry (born October 18, 1926) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958), Chuck Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive, with lyrics focusing on teen life and consumerism and utilizing guitar solos and showmanship that would be a major influence on subsequent rock music.
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Clay Aiken
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Clint Eastwood
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Cyndi Lauper
Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper (born June 22, 1953) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She achieved success in the mid-1980s with the release of the album ''She's So Unusual'' and became the first female singer to have four top-five singles released from one album. Lauper has released 11 albums and over 40 singles, and as of 2008 had sold more than 30 million records worldwide.
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Dave Brubeck
David Warren "Dave" Brubeck (born December 6, 1920) is an American jazz pianist. He has written a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke". Brubeck's style ranges from refined to bombastic, reflecting his mother's attempts at classical training and his improvisational skills. His music is known for employing unusual time signatures, and superimposing contrasting rhythms, meters, and tonalities.
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Davey Johnstone
Davey Johnstone (born 6 May 1951 in Edinburgh, Scotland), is a rock guitarist and vocalist, best known for his work with Elton John, Alice Cooper, and Meat Loaf.
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David Beckham
David Robert Joseph Beckham, OBE (born 2 May 1975) is an English footballer who plays in midfield for Los Angeles Galaxy in Major League Soccer, having previously played for Manchester United, Real Madrid, and Milan, as well as the England national team, for whom he holds the all-time appearance record for an outfield player.
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David Bowie
David Bowie ( ; born David Robert Jones, 8 January 1947) is an English rock musician, who has also worked as an actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for five decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s, and is known for his distinctive voice and the intellectual depth of his work.
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David Crosby
David Van Cortlandt Crosby (born August 14, 1941) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. In addition to his solo career, he was a founding member of three bands: The Byrds, Crosby, Stills & Nash (who are sometimes augmented by Neil Young), and CPR. Crosby is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work in The Byrds and CSN.
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David Foster
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David Furnish
David James Furnish (born 25 October 1962) is a Canadian filmmaker, former advertising executive, and now a film director and producer most famous for his documentary . He is the Civil partner of British entertainer Sir Elton John.
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David Hentschel
David Hentschel is an English recording engineer, writer and music producer who engineered on George Harrison's All Things Must Pass and Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, as well as with artists including Genesis, Elton John, Ringo Starr, Queen, Marti Webb, Andy Summers, Mike Oldfield and Ronnie Caryl.
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David LaChapelle
David LaChapelle (born March 11, 1963 in Fairfield, Connecticut) is a photographer and video/commercial/film director who works in the fields of fashion, advertising, and fine art photography, and is noted for his surreal, unique and often humorous style.
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David Lloyd (tennis)
David Lloyd (born 3 January 1948) is a former professional English tennis player and businessman.
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David Paich
David Paich (born David Frank Paich on June 25, 1954 in Los Angeles, California) is a session musician, keyboard player, recording producer, arranger, vocalist and main composer of the Los Angeles-based rock/pop band Toto. David is the son of the late jazz composer, musician, and arranger Marty Paich. With Toto, Paich has released 17 albums and sold over 30 million records.
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David Paton
David Paton (born 29 October 1949, Edinburgh, Scotland) is a bass and guitar player, most notably with three different bands: Pilot, The Alan Parsons Project, and Camel. He has also worked as a solo artist, session musician, and sometime vocalist.
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David Sanborn
David Sanborn (born July 30, 1945) is an American alto saxophonist. Though Sanborn has worked in many genres, his solo recordings typically blend jazz with instrumental pop and R&B.; He released his first solo album Taking Off in 1975, but has been playing the saxophone since before he was in high school.
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David Yazbek
David Yazbek (born 1961) is an American writer, musician, composer, and lyricist. He wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway musicals The Full Monty (2000) and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2005).
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David Zippel
David Joel Zippel (born May 17, 1954) is an American musical theatre lyricist.
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Dee Murray
Dee Murray (3 April 1946 - 15 January 1992) was an English bassist, best known as a member of Elton John's original rock band.
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Deon Estus
Deon Estus (born Jeffery Deon Estus, 1956 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American bassist and singer, best known as the bass player of Wham! and as George Michael's bassist on all of the latter's subsequent projects.
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Diana Ross
Diana Ernestine Earle Ross (born March 26, 1944) is an American singer and actress. During the 1960s, she helped shape the Motown sound as lead singer of The Supremes, before leaving the group for a solo career on January 14, 1970. Since the beginning of her career with The Supremes and as a solo artist, Ross has sold more than 150 million records.
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Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer.
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Dolly Parton
Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best-known for her work in country music.
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Don Black (lyricist)
Don Black, OBE (born 21 June 1938) is an English lyricist. His works have included numerous musicals, movie themes and hit songs. He has provided lyrics for John Barry, Charles Strouse, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Quincy Jones, Jule Styne, Henry Mancini, Michael Jackson, Elmer Bernstein, Michel Legrand, A. R. Rahman and Marvin Hamlisch.
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Don Henley
Donald Hugh "Don" Henley (born July 22, 1947; Gilmer, Texas) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and drummer, best known as a founding member of the Eagles before launching a successful seven time Grammy Award-winning solo career. His solo hits include "Dirty Laundry", "The Boys of Summer", "All She Wants to Do Is Dance", and "The End of the Innocence". In 2008, he was ranked the 87th greatest singer of all time by Rolling Stone magazine.
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Doris Troy
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Duncan Sheik
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Dusty Springfield
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Elizabeth Hurley
Elizabeth Jane Hurley (born 10 June 1965) is an English model and actress who became known as a girlfriend of Hugh Grant in the 1990s. In 1994, as Grant became the focus of worldwide media attention due to the global box office success of his film Four Weddings and a Funeral, Hurley accompanied him to the film's Los Angeles premiere in a plunging black Versace dress held together with gold safety pins, which gained her instant media notice.
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Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, born 21 April 1926) is the reigning queen and head of state of 16 independent sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. In addition, as Head of the Commonwealth, she is the figurehead of the 54-member Commonwealth of Nations and, as the British monarch, she is the Supreme Governor of the Church of England.
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Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE (born 27 February 1932), also known as Liz Taylor, is an English-American actress. She is known for her acting talent and beauty, as well as her Hollywood lifestyle, including many marriages. Taylor is considered one of the great actresses of Hollywood's golden age.
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Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer-songwriter, composer and pianist. He has worked with his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin since 1967; they have collaborated on more than 30 albums to date.
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Elvis Costello
Declan Patrick MacManus (born 25 August 1954), known by the stage name Elvis Costello, is a British singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the Punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader than that of most popular songs. His music has drawn on many diverse genres; the critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine describes him as a "pop encyclopedia," able to "reinvent the past in his own image".Stephen Thomas Erlewine, [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql;=10:ly09kect7q70 Get Happy!! [Ryko Bonus Tracks]], Allmusic. Retrieved 17 September 2007.
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Elvis Presley
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Eminem
Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), better known by his stage name Eminem, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Eminem quickly gained popularity in 1999 with his major-label debut album, The Slim Shady LP, which won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. The following album, The Marshall Mathers LP, became the fastest-selling solo album in United States history. It brought Eminem increased popularity, including his own record label, Shady Records, and brought his group project, D12, to mainstream recognition.
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Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone, Grande Ufficiale OMRI (born November 10, 1928) is an Italian composer and conductor.
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Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE (born 30 March 1945) is an English blues-rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only person who has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three times; as a solo performer, as well as a member of rock bands the Yardbirds and Cream. Throughout his career, Clapton has been viewed by critics and fans alike as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time, Clapton was ranked fourth in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and #53 on their list of the "Immortals: 100 Greatest Artists of All Time". In 2010, Clapton was ranked #4 on ''Gibson's'' Top 50 Guitarists of All Time.
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Fred Ebb
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Fred Mandel
Fred Mandel (born in Canada) is a keyboard player and guitarist.
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Freddie Hubbard
Frederick Dewayne "Freddie" Hubbard (April 7, 1938 – December 29, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 1960s and on. His unmistakable and influential tone contributed to new perspectives for modern jazz and bebop.
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Freddie Mercury
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Frédéric Chopin
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Gary Osborne
Gary Osborne (born in London) is an English singer and songwriter (most notably a lyricist) from the United Kingdom.
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George Jones
George Glenn Jones (born September 12, 1931) is an American country music singer known for his long list of hit records, his distinctive voice and phrasing, and his marriage to Tammy Wynette.
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George Michael
George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (); June 25, 1963) is an English singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the 1980s when he formed the pop duo Wham! along with his school friend Andrew Ridgeley. His first solo single, "Careless Whisper" was released when he was still in the duo and sold about six million copies worldwide.
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Gianni Versace
Gianni Versace (December 2, 1946, Reggio Calabria – July 15, 1997) was an Italian fashion designer and founder of Gianni Versace S.p.A., an international fashion house, which produces accessories, fragrances, makeup and home furnishings as well as clothes. He also designed costumes for the theatre and films, and was a friend of Elton John, Sting, and Princess Diana among many others. Openly gay, Versace and his partner Antonio D'Amico were regulars on the international party scene. Versace was murdered outside his Miami Beach home, the former Casa Casuarina now known as [http://www.thevillabybartong.com The Villa By Barton G.], at the age of 50 by spree killer Andrew Cunanan.
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Grace Bumbry
Grace Bumbry (born January 4, 1937) is an American opera singer, and is considered one of the leading mezzo-sopranos of her generation, as well as a major soprano for many years. She was a member of an extraordinary and pioneering generation of singers who followed Marian Anderson (including Leontyne Price, Martina Arroyo, Shirley Verrett and Reri Grist) in the world of classical music and paved the way for future African-American opera and classical singers. Bumbry's voice was rich and sizable, possessing a wide range, and was capable of producing a very distinctive plangent tone. In her prime, she also possessed good agility and bel canto technique (see for example her renditions of the 'Veil Song' from Verdi's Don Carlo in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as her Ernani from the Chicago Lyric Opera in 1984). She was particularly noted for her fiery temperament and dramatic intensity on stage. More recently, she has also become known as a recitalist and interpreter of lieder, and as a teacher. From the late 1980s on, she seemed to concentrate her career in Europe, rather than in the US. A long time resident of Switzerland, she now makes her home in Salzburg, Austria.
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Graham Nash
Graham William Nash, OBE (born 2 February 1942) is a British singer-songwriter known for his light tenor vocals and for his songwriting contributions with the British pop group The Hollies, and with the folk-rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Nash is a photography collector and a published photographer. Nash was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Crosby, Stills & Nash and as a member of The Hollies in 2010.
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Greg Morrison
Greg Morrison (born 1965) is an Tony Award winning and Drama Desk Award winning Canadian writer and composer best known for his work on the music and lyrics of The Drowsy Chaperone, which he wrote with Lisa Lambert. He also has extensive credits directing and musical directing shows across the United States, and Canada. In addition he is a recipient of a Canadian Comedy Award, and a Sterling Award for Original Composition.
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Gus Dudgeon
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Guy Babylon
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György Ligeti
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Handel
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Heather Headley
Heather Headley (born October 5, 1974) is a Trinidadian R&B; and soul singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. She has won one Tony Award and one Grammy Award.
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Herbert Kretzmer
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Howard Ashman
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Isaac Stern
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Jack Nicholson
John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American actor, film director and producer. He is renowned for his often dark-themed portrayals of neurotic characters.
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Jack Petchey
Jack Petchey OBE (born 1925) is a businessman, now involved in many charitable enterprises. He was born and brought up in the East End of London. During the second world war, he served in the Royal Navy, and used his Navy discharge pay to start a car hire and car sales business. This grew into a business empire worth - in mid-2007 - over half a billion pounds. In 1969 he was involved with property development becoming one of the most successful businessmen in Britain.
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James Brown
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James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones (born January 17, 1931) is an American actor of stage and screen, well known for his deep basso voice. To modern audiences, he is known for providing the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars franchise and the tagline for CNN.
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James Horner
James Roy Horner (born August 14, 1953) is an American composer, orchestrator and conductor of orchestral and film music. He is noted for the integration of choral and electronic elements in many of his film scores, and for frequent use of Celtic musical elements.
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James Levine
James Lawrence Levine (; born June 23, 1943) is an American conductor and pianist. He is currently the music director of the Metropolitan Opera and of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Levine's first performance conducting the Metropolitan Opera was on June 5, 1971, and as of July 2009 he has conducted more than 2,456 Met performances. In 1997, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
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James Newton Howard
James Newton Howard (born June 9, 1951) is an American film score composer, orchestrator and music producer.
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Jason Donovan
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Jason Mraz
Jason Thomas Mraz (; born June 23, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter, born and raised in Mechanicsville, Virginia. Mraz's stylistic influences include reggae, pop, rock, folk, jazz, bossa nova and hip hop.
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Jason Robert Brown
Jason Robert Brown (born June 20, 1970 in Ossining, New York) is an American musical theater composer, lyricist. Brown's music sensibility fuses pop-rock stylings with theatrical lyrics. An accomplished pianist, Brown has often served as music director, conductor, orchestrator and pianist for his own productions.
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Jean-Luc Ponty
Jean-Luc Ponty (born September 29, 1942, Avranches, France) is a French virtuoso violinist and jazz composer.
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Jeff Porcaro
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Jerry Herman
Jerry Herman (born July 10, 1931) is an American composer and lyricist, known for his work in Broadway musical theater. He composed the scores for the hit Broadway musicals Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and La Cage aux Folles. He has been nominated for the Tony Award five times, and won twice, for Hello, Dolly! and La Cage aux Folles. In 2009, Herman received the Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre. He is a recipient of the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors.[]
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Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis (born September 29, 1935) is an American rock and roll and country music singer and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, his career faltered after Lewis married his young cousin, and he afterwards made a transition to country music.
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Jim Reeves
James Travis Reeves (August 20, 1923 – July 31, 1964) was an American country and pop music singer-songwriter popular in the 1950s and 1960s who also gained a wide international following for his pioneering smooth Nashville sound. Known as Gentleman Jim, his songs continued to chart for years following his death at age 40 in a private airplane crash. He was a member of the Country Music and Texas Country Music Halls of Fame.
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Joan Sutherland
Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, OM, AC, DBE (7 November 192610 October 2010) was an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano noted for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s through to the 1980s.
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John Deacon
John Richard Deacon (born 19 August 1951) is a retired English multi-instrumentalist, best known as the bass guitarist for the rock band Queen. Of the four members of the band, he was the last to join and also the youngest, being only 19 years old when he was recruited by the other members of the band. Deacon wrote a number of Queen's hit singles, including "You're My Best Friend", "Spread Your Wings", "Back Chat", "I Want to Break Free" and the band's biggest selling single in the United States, "Another One Bites the Dust", as well as a number of album tracks. He also played rhythm and acoustic guitars on several albums as well as occasional keyboards, synthesiser and programming. He frequently provided backing vocals during live shows.
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John Jorgenson
John Jorgenson (born 6 July 1956, in Madison, Wisconsin) is an American musician. Although best known for his guitar work with bands such as the Desert Rose Band and The Hellecasters, Jorgenson is also proficient in the mandolin, mandocello, Dobro, pedal steel, piano, upright bass, clarinet, bassoon and saxophone. While a member of the Desert Rose Band, Jorgenson won the Academy of Country Music's "Guitarist of the Year" award three consecutive years.
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John Kander
John Harold Kander (born March 18, 1927) is the American composer of a number of musicals as part of the songwriting team of Kander and Ebb.
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John Lennon
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John Lloyd (tennis)
John Lloyd (born 27 August 1954, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England) is a former professional tennis player and current television commentator.
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John Mahon
John Mahon is a professional percussionist and backing vocalist, most noted for his work with Elton John. He grew up in Canton, Ohio, and was attracted to music when he joined a local drum/bugle club. He attended St. Thomas Aquinas High School.
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John Reid (music)
John Reid is a manager and music industry figure born in Paisley, Scotland currently living and working in Australia.
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John Williams
John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is a prolific American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning six decades, he has composed many of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures, including those for Jaws, the Star Wars Saga, Superman, the Indiana Jones films, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Hook, Jurassic Park, ''Schindler's List, Home Alone, and three Harry Potter'' films. He has composed the music for all but two of director Steven Spielberg's feature films.
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Jon Bon Jovi
Jon Bon Jovi (born John Francis Bongiovi, Jr., on March 2, 1962) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and actor, best known as the lead singer and founder of Bon Jovi. Throughout his career, he has released two solo albums and eleven studio albums with his band which have sold over 130 million albums worldwide.
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Jonathan Larson
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Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell, CC, (born Roberta Joan Anderson; November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter.
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Jorge Donn
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José Antonio Abreu
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Judie Tzuke
Judie Tzuke (born Judie Myers, 3 April 1956 in London) is an English singer/songwriter. Her father, Sefton Myers, was a successful property developer who also managed artists and singers—most notably Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice during the writing of Jesus Christ Superstar. Her family relocated from Poland to England in the 1920s, and changed their surname from Tzuke to Myers. When Tzuke embarked on her singing career, she decided to reclaim the family's Polish name. Her mother, Jean Silverside, was a television actress. Tzuke has two children: Bailey, also a singer-songwriter, and Tallula Muggleton-Tzuke. Her partner Paul Muggleton has three children: Annie Moody Muggleton; Andy Muggleton and Jamie Muggleton.
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Judith Light
Judith Ellen Light (born February 9, 1949) is an American actress. Her television roles include Karen Wolek on the soap opera One Life to Live, Angela Bower on the sitcom ''Who's the Boss?'', Claire Meade on ABC's TV series Ugly Betty and Judge Elizabeth (Liz) Donnelly on Law & Order Special Victims Unit.
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Julie Andrews
Dame Julia Elizabeth Andrews, DBE ( Wells; born 1 October 1935) is an English film and stage actress, singer, and author. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award honours. Andrews was a former British child actress and singer who made her Broadway debut in 1954 with The Boy Friend, and rose to prominence starring in other musicals such as My Fair Lady and Camelot, and in musical films such as Mary Poppins (1964), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and The Sound of Music (1965): the roles for which she is still best-known. Her voice spanned four octaves until it was damaged by a throat operation in 1997.
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Julie Harris
Julia Ann "Julie" Harris (born December 2, 1925) is an American stage, screen, and television actress. She has won five Tony Awards, three Emmy Awards and a Grammy Award, and was nominated for an Academy Award. In 1994, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. She is a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame. She also received the 2002 Special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award.
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K.d. Lang
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Kanye West
Kanye Omari West (; born June 8, 1977) is an American rapper, singer, and record producer. West first rose to fame as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records, where he eventually achieved recognition for his work on Jay-Z's album The Blueprint, as well as hit singles for musical artists including Alicia Keys, Ludacris, and Janet Jackson. His style of production originally used pitched-up vocal samples from soul songs incorporated with his own drums and instruments. However, subsequent productions saw him broadening his musical palette and expressing influences encompassing '70s R&B;, baroque pop, trip hop, arena rock, folk, alternative, electronica, synth-pop, and classical music.
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Kate Bush
Kate Bush (born Catherine Bush 30 July 1958) is an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and idiosyncratic vocal style have made her one of the United Kingdom's most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years. Bush was signed by EMI at the age of 16 after being recommended by Pink Floyd's David Gilmour. In 1978, at age 19, she topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks with her debut single "Wuthering Heights", becoming the first woman to have a UK number-one with a self-written song. She was also the most photographed woman in the United Kingdom that year.
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Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945, in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American pianist/composer who has performed in both jazz and classical music.
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Kelly Osbourne
Kelly Michelle Osbourne (born 27 October 1984) is a British media personality, fashion designer, singer, actress and model, known for being the daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne. She was thrust into the limelight after appearing on the reality series The Osbournes with her family, for which they won a 2002 Emmy award for Outstanding Reality Programme. She has also appeared on Dancing with the Stars, in which she and professional dance partner Louis van Amstel took third place, and has made forays into music, acting, theatre, fashion, writing, and radio agony aunt and colomnist and television presenting.
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Kevin Ayers
Kevin Ayers (born 16 August 1944 in Herne Bay, Kent) is an English songwriter and was a major influential force in the English psychedelic movement. BBC DJ John Peel wrote in his autobiography that "Kevin Ayers' talent is so acute you could perform major eye surgery with it."
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Kiki Dee
Kiki Dee (born Pauline Matthews, 6 March 1947, Little Horton, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England) is a singer-songwriter, with a career spanning more than 40 years.
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Kim Kardashian
Kimberly Noel "Kim" Kardashian (born October 21, 1980) is an American celebutante, socialite, television personality, producer, actress, and model. She also is the daughter of late attorney Robert Kardashian. She is widely known for a sex tape with her former boyfriend Ray J and her E! reality series which she shares with her family, Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Since then, Kim has launched multiple fragrances, guest starred on numerous shows and competed on ABC ABC's Dancing with the Stars. She also has had roles in movies such as, Disaster Movie, and Deep in the Valley.
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Kylie Minogue
Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE ( ; born 28 May 1968), is an Australian pop singer, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987. Her first single, "Locomotion", spent seven weeks at number one on the Australian singles chart and became the highest selling single of the decade. This led to a contract with songwriters and producers Stock, Aitken & Waterman. Her debut album, Kylie (1988), and the single "I Should Be So Lucky", each reached number one in the United Kingdom, and over the next two years, her first 13 singles reached the British top ten. Her debut film, The Delinquents (1989) was a box-office hit in Australia and the UK despite negative reviews.
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Lady Gaga
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28, 1986), better known by the stage name Lady Gaga, is an American recording artist. She began performing in the rock music scene of New York City's Lower East Side in 2003 and enrolled at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She soon signed with Streamline Records, an imprint of Interscope Records. During her early time at Interscope, she worked as a songwriter for fellow label artists and captured the attention of Akon, who recognized her vocal abilities, and signed her to his own label, Kon Live Distribution.
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Larry King
Lawrence Harvey "Larry" King (born November 19, 1933) is an American television and radio host.
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Leon Fleisher
Leon Fleisher (born July 23, 1928) is an American pianist and conductor.
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Leon Russell
Claude Russell Bridges (born April 2, 1942; Lawton, Oklahoma), known professionally as Leon Russell, is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, and guitarist.
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Leona Lewis
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Leonard Cohen
Leonard Norman Cohen, CC, GOQ (born 21 September 1934) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often deals with the exploration of religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships. Famously reclusive, having once spent several years in a Zen Buddhist monastery, and possessing a persona frequently associated with mystique, he is extremely well-regarded by critics for his literary accomplishments, for the richness of his lyrics, and for producing an output of work of high artistic quality over a five-decade career.
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Lesley Duncan
Lesley Duncan (married name Lesley Cox, 12 August 1943 – 12 March 2010) was an English singer-songwriter, best known for her work during the 1970s. She received a lot of airplay on British radio stations such as BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2, but never achieved great commercial success.
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Lisa Lambert
Lisa Lambert (born November 1962, in Washington D.C.) is an actress, comedy writer, and Tony Award winning composer, best known for writing the lyrics and music to The Drowsy Chaperone.
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Little Richard
Richard Wayne Penniman (born December 5, 1932), known by the stage name Little Richard, is an American singer, songwriter, pianist, bandleader and recording artist, considered key in the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll in the 1950s. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame web site entry on Penniman states that:
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Long John Baldry
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Louis XIV
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Luciano Pavarotti
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Luther Vandross
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Lynn Ahrens
Lynn Ahrens (born October 1, 1948) is an American writer and lyricist for the musical theatre, television and film. She has collaborated with Stephen Flaherty for many years. She won the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for the musical Ragtime.
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Major Lance
Major Lance (April 4, 1939 – September 3, 1994) was an American R&B; singer. After a number of US hits in the 1960s, including "The Monkey Time" and "Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um", he became an iconic figure in Britain in the 1970s among followers of Northern soul.
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Martin Charnin
Martin Charnin (born November 24, 1934) is an American lyricist, writer, and theatre director. Charnin's best-known work is as conceiver, director and lyricist for the hit musical Annie.
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Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese (; born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. He is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema, and has won awards from the Oscars, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America. Scorsese is president of The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation.
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Marvin Hamlisch
Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (born June 2, 1944) is an American composer. He is one of only two people to have been awarded Emmys, Grammys, Oscars, and a Tony (known as an EGOT) plus a Pulitzer Prize (the other is Richard Rodgers). Hamlisch has also won two Golden Globes.
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Maurice Béjart
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Maury Dean
Maury Dean is an American musician, professor and author, whose book "The Rock Revolution" is in the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame and the Smithsonian.
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Maury Yeston
Maury Yeston (born October 23, 1945) is an American composer, lyricist, educator and musicologist.
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Meat Loaf
Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday on September 27, 1947), better known by his stage name Meat Loaf is an American rock musician and actor. He is noted for the Bat Out of Hell album trilogy consisting of Bat Out of Hell, and . Bat Out of Hell has sold more than 43 million copies. After more than 30 years, it still sells an estimated 200,000 copies annually, and stayed on the charts for over nine years.
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Mel Brooks
Melvin "Mel" Kaminsky (born June 28, 1926), better known by his stage name Mel Brooks, is an American film director, screenwriter, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor, and producer. He is best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. Brooks is a member of the short list of entertainers with the distinction of having won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony award. Three of his films ranked in the Top 20 on the American Film Institute's list of the Top 100 comedy films of all-time: Blazing Saddles, The Producers and Young Frankenstein.
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Michael Jackson
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Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols (born November 6, 1931) is a German-born American television, stage and film director, writer, and producer. Nichols is one of only twelve people to have won an all the major American entertainment awards: an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award. In 2001, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. He received the Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute in 2010.
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Mikhail Baryshnikov
Mikhail Nikolaevich Baryshnikov (, ) (born January 28, 1948) is a Soviet-born Russian American dancer, choreographer, and actor, often cited alongside Vaslav Nijinsky and Rudolf Nureyev as one of the greatest ballet dancers of the 20th century. After a promising start in the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad, he defected to Canada in 1974 for more opportunities in western dance. After freelancing with many companies, he joined the New York City Ballet as a principal dancer to learn George Balanchine's style of movement. He then moved to New York to dance with the American Ballet Theatre, where he later became artistic director.
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Millie Jackson
Mildred "Millie" Jackson (born July 15, 1944) is an American R&B;/soul singer-songwriter. Three of her albums have been certified gold by the RIAA for over 500,000 copies.
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Morgan Freeman
Morgan Porterfield Freeman, Jr. (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, film director, and narrator. He is noted for his reserved demeanor and authoritative speaking voice.
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Mozart
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Neil Sedaka
Neil Sedaka (born March 13, 1939) is an American pop singer, pianist, and songwriter. His career has spanned over 50 years, during which time he has written many songs for himself and others, often working with lyricists Howard Greenfield and Phil Cody.
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Neil Young
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Nigel Olsson
Nigel Olsson (born 10 February 1949) is an English rock drummer, who is best known for his work with Elton John.
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Nik Kershaw
Nik Kershaw (born Nicholas David Kershaw, 1 March 1958, Bristol, England) is an English singer-songwriter. The one time jazz-funk guitarist was a mid-1980s teen idol. His 50 weeks on the UK Singles Chart in 1984 beat all other soloists. Kershaw appeared at Live Aid, and penned hits for Let Loose, The Hollies and a #1 for Chesney Hawkes, "The One and Only".
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Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Nikolaus Harnoncourt ('''Count Nikolaus de la Fontaine und d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt''') (born 6 December 1929) is an Austrian conductor, particularly known for his historically informed performances of music from the Classical era and earlier.
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Olivia Newton-John
Olivia Newton-John AO, OBE (born 26 September 1948) is an English-born, Australian-raised singer and actress. She is a four-time Grammy award winner who has amassed five No. 1 and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 singles and two No. 1 Billboard 200 solo albums. Eleven of her singles (including two platinum) and 14 of her albums (including two platinum and four double platinum) have been certified gold by the RIAA. Her music has been successful in multiple formats including pop, country and adult contemporary. She co-starred with John Travolta in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Grease which became one of the most successful films and movie soundtracks in Hollywood history.
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Ossie Davis
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Patti Smith
Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist, who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Called the "Godmother of Punk", she integrated the beat poetry performance style with three-chord rock. Smith's most widely known song is "Because the Night", which was co-written with Bruce Springsteen and reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978. In 2005, Patti Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, and in 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Paul Carrack
Paul Carrack (born 22 April 1951) is an English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Carrack has been a member of several bands including Ace, Squeeze, Mike + The Mechanics, and Roxy Music, been a session and touring musician for several others including Nick Lowe, and has enjoyed success as a solo artist as well. His distinctive voice appears on some of his affiliated bands' best-known hits. He was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.
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Paul McCartney
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Paul Simon
Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter.
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Pete Townshend
Peter Dennis Blandford "Pete" Townshend (; born 19 May 1945) is an English rock guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and author, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for The Who, as well as for his own solo career. His career with The Who spans more than forty years, during which time the band grew to be considered one of the most influential bands of the 60s and 70s, and, according to Eddie Vedder, "possibly the greatest live band ever."
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Peter Gabriel
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Peter Kay
Peter John Kay (born 2 July 1973) is an English comedian, writer, producer, director and actor. His work includes That Peter Kay Thing (2000), Phoenix Nights (2001), ''Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere (2004), Britain's Got the Pop Factor...'' (2008) and other independent productions.
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Pharrell Williams
Pharrell Williams (born April 5, 1973), commonly known as simply Pharrell, is an American recording artist, producer, musician and fashion designer. Along with Chad Hugo, they make the record production duo The Neptunes, where they produce pop, hip hop and R&B; music. He is also the lead vocalist and drummer of rock band N.E.R.D, which he formed with Hugo and childhood friend Shay Haley. He released his debut single "Frontin'" in 2003 and followed up with his debut album In My Mind in 2006.
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Phil Collins
Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO (born 30 January 1951) is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboardist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for English progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist.
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Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez () (born March 26, 1925) is a French composer of contemporary classical music and a conductor.
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Plácido Domingo
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Prince (musician)
Prince (born Prince Rogers Nelson, June 7, 1958) is a singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. He has been known under the unpronounceable symbol , which he used between 1993 and 2000. During that period he was frequently referred to in the media as "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince", often abbreviated to "TAFKAP", or simply "The Artist"
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Quincy Jones
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Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar (; born 7 April 1920), often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the best known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.
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Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930June 10, 2004), better known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. Ray was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm & blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records. He also helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his Modern Sounds albums. While with ABC, Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company.
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Renate Blauel
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Renée Fleming
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Rick Wakeman
Richard Christopher Wakeman (born 18 May 1949) is an English keyboard player, composer, and songwriter. He is known for being the keyboardist for progressive rock band Yes, his solo career, and latterly as a contributor to the BBC Television comedy show Grumpy Old Men.
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Rikrok
Ricardo George Ducent (born 17 June 1972, London, England) better known by his stage name Rikrok is an English singer. Rikrok is most famous for the single "It Wasn't Me" from Shaggy's Hot Shot album.
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Robert Moog
Dr. Robert Arthur Moog (, respell|), commonly called Bob Moog (May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005) was an American pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer.
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Robert Redford
Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936), better known as Robert Redford, is an American actor, film director, producer, businessman, model, environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival. He has received two Oscars: one in 1981 for directing Ordinary People, and one for Lifetime Achievement in 2002.
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Roger Daltrey
Roger Harry Daltrey, CBE (born 1 March 1944), is an English singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the founder and lead singer of English rock band The Who. He has maintained a musical career as a solo artist and has also worked in the film industry, acting in a large number of films, theatre and television roles and also producing films.
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Roger Hodgson
Charles Roger Pomfret Hodgson (born 21 March 1950) is a British vocalist and musician and one of the founding members of the progressive rock group Supertramp. Hodgson was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, in 1950 and grew up in Oxford in a wealthy middle-class family. He went to Woodcote House (where he was the first boy to learn electric guitar) & Stowe School in Buckinghamshire. He is recognised for his high-pitched, Jon Anderson-esque singing voice, which became a trademark of his former band Supertramp, and often writes about spiritual and philosophical topics. He has been given the nickname of Mr. Supertramp by fans.
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Roger Miller
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Rose Stone
Rose Stone (or Rosie Stone) (born Rosemary Stewart, March 21, 1945, Vallejo, California, United States) is an African-American singer and keyboardist. She is best known as one of the lead singers in Sly & the Family Stone, a popular psychedelic soul/funk band founded by her brothers, Sly Stone and Freddie Stone. She often wore a platinum-colored wig while performing with the band, and was noted for her strong vocals.
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Ruby Dee
Ruby Dee (born October 27, 1924) is an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and activist, perhaps best-known for co-starring in the film A Raisin in the Sun (1961).
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RuPaul
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Rupert Holmes
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Rush Limbaugh
Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (; born January 12, 1951) is an American radio talk show host, conservative political commentator, and an opinion leader in conservative politics and conservatism in the United States. He hosts The Rush Limbaugh Show which is aired throughout the U.S. on Premiere Radio Networks and is the highest-rated talk-radio program in the United States. Limbaugh signed an 8 year, $400 million contract extension with Clear Channel in 2008 that pays him $50 million a year.
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Ryan White
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Sam Taylor-Wood
Samantha "Sam" Taylor-Wood (born March 4, 1967) is an English filmmaker, photographer and conceptual artist. Her directorial feature film debut was the 2009 Nowhere Boy, a film based on the childhood experiences of The Beatles songwriter and singer John Lennon.
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Seymour Stein
Seymour Stein (born 1942 in Brooklyn, New York) is an entrepreneur in the music industry who has been a part of the business since getting his first job as a clerk for Billboard Magazine in 1958. Stein is a vice president of Warner Bros. Records and a co-founder of Sire Records.
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Sherie Rene Scott
Sherie Rene Scott (born Kentucky,Gans, Andrew. [http://www.playbill.com/news/article/93304-DIVA-TALK-A-Chat-with-Scoundrels-Sherie-Rene-Scott-Plus-Tonys-05-and-Kitt-at-the-Carlyle "Diva Talk: A Chat with Scoundrels' Sherie Rene Scott"], Playbill, 03 June 2005 February 8, 1967) is an American actress, singer and writer. She is a co-founder of Sh-K-Boom Records and Ghostlight Records and has appeared in numerous Off-Broadway and Broadway musicals and plays. She also has made solo and original cast recordings. Scott has twice been nominated for Tony Awards.
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Shirley Bassey
Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey, DBE (born 8 January 1937 in Cardiff, Wales), is a Welsh singer who found fame in the late 1950s and has continued a successful career since then worldwide. She is best known for recording the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker (1979), and is a UNESCO Artist for Peace.
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Simon & Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel are an American singer-songwriter duo consisting of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. They formed the group Tom & Jerry in 1957, and had their first taste of success with the minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl". As Simon & Garfunkel, the duo rose to fame in 1965, backed by the hit single "The Sounds of Silence". Their music was featured in the landmark film The Graduate, propelling them further into the public consciousness.
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Smokey Robinson
William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. (born February 19, 1940) is an American R&B; and soul singer-songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson is one of the primary figures associated with Motown, second only to the company's founder, Berry Gordy. Robinson's consistent commercial success and creative contributions to the label have earned him the title "King of Motown."
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Snoop Dogg
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Sofia Gubaidulina
Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina, (, ) (born October 24, 1931) is a Russian composer of half Russian, half Tatar ethnicity.
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Sonny Rollins
Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930 in New York City) is a Grammy-winning American jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. A number of his compositions, including "St. Thomas", "Oleo", "Doxy", and "Airegin", have become jazz standards.
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Stephen Flaherty
Stephen Flaherty (born September 18, 1960) is an American composer of musical theatre. He works most often in collaboration with the lyricist/bookwriter Lynn Ahrens. They are best known for writing the Broadway shows Once on This Island, which was nominated for eight Tony Awards, Seussical , which was nominated for the Grammy Award and Ragtime, which was nominated for twelve Tony Awards and won Best Original Score. Flaherty was also nominated for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards with Lynn Ahrens for his songs and song score for the animated film musical Anastasia.
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Stephen Fry
Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, writer, journalist, comedian, television presenter, film director and a director of Norwich City Football Club. He first came to attention in the 1981 Cambridge Footlights Revue presentation "The Cellar Tapes", which also included Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Tony Slattery. With Hugh Laurie, as the comedy double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, and the duo also played the title roles in Jeeves and Wooster.
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Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards (eight, more than any other composer) including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize. His most famous scores include (as composer/lyricist) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, and Assassins, as well as the lyrics for West Side Story and . He was president of the Dramatists Guild from 1973 to 1981.
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Steve Martin
Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American actor, comedian, writer, playwright, producer, musician and composer.
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Steve Reich
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Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg, (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, film producer and video game designer. In a career spanning six decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an archetype of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. In later years, his films began addressing such issues as the Holocaust, slavery, war and terrorism. He is considered one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. He is also one of the founders of DreamWorks.
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Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Judkins (born May 13, 1950), name later changed to Stevland Hardaway Morris, known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist. Blind from shortly after birth, Wonder signed with Motown Records' Tamla label at the age of eleven, and continues to perform and record for Motown to this day.
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Stew (musician)
Mark Stewart (born 1961), known by his stage name Stew is a Tony award-winning singer/songwriter/playwright from Los Angeles. In the early 1990s, he formed a band called The Negro Problem and later went on to release albums under his own name. His 2000 release Guest Host was named Album of the Year by Entertainment Weekly and his 2002 album, The Naked Dutch Painter and Other Songs, repeated that feat. He toured in support of Love's Arthur Lee in 2002 and in 2003 he was invited to take part in the Lincoln Center's American Songbook series of concerts.
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Suzanne Farrell
Suzanne Farrell (born August 16, 1945) is an eminent 20th century ballerina and the founder of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
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T-Bone Burnett
Joseph Henry Burnett (born January 14, 1948), widely known as T-Bone Burnett, is an American musician, songwriter, and soundtrack and record producer.
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T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) was an American-born English poet, playwright, and literary critic, arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. The poem that made his name, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock—started in 1910 and published in Chicago in 1915—is regarded as a masterpiece of the modernist movement, and was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language, including Gerontion (1920), The Waste Land (1922), The Hollow Men (1925), Ash Wednesday (1930), and Four Quartets (1945). He is also known for his seven plays, particularly Murder in the Cathedral (1935). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.
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Tammy Wynette
Virginia Wynette Pugh, known professionally as Tammy Wynette (May 5, 1942 – April 6, 1998), was an American country music singer-songwriter and one of country music's best-known artists and biggest-selling female vocalists.
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Tata Vega
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The Scaffold
The Scaffold were a comedy, poetry and music trio from Liverpool, England, consisting of Mike McGear (real name Peter Michael McCartney, the brother of Paul McCartney), Roger McGough and John Gorman.
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Thom Bell
Thom Bell (born January 26, 1943 in Kingston, Jamaica) is an American songwriter and producer, best known as one of the creators of the Philadelphia style of soul music in the 1970s. Born in Jamaica he moved to Philadelphia as a child.
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Tim Henman
Timothy Henry "Tim" Henman OBE (born 6 September 1974) is a British retired professional tennis player and former British Number One. Henman played a serve-and-volley style of tennis that suited the grass courts of Wimbledon. He was the first player from the United Kingdom since Roger Taylor in the 1970s to reach the semi-finals of the Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship. Having reached six Grand Slam semi-finals, won 15 career ATP titles (11 in singles and 4 in doubles), and been ranked number 4 in the world, Henman was one of Britain's most successful open era male tennis players. He retired after helping Great Britain defeat Croatia in a Davis Cup match played in September 2007.
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Timbaland
Timothy Zachery Mosley (born March 10, 1971), better known by his stage name Timbaland, is an American Grammy Award-winning record producer, singer-songwriter, actor, musician and rapper. He is the older brother of rapper Sebastian.
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Tina Turner
Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939) is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards and her achievements in the rock music genre have earned her the title '''The Queen of Rock 'n' Roll'''.
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Tom Jones (singer)
Sir Thomas John Woodward, OBE (born 7 June 1940), known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer. Jones is particularly noted for his powerful voice.
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Tom Robinson
Tom Robinson (born 1 June 1950) is an English singer-songwriter, bassist and radio presenter, better known for the hits "Glad to Be Gay", "2-4-6-8 Motorway", and "Don't Take No for an Answer", with his Tom Robinson Band. He later peaked at #6 in the UK Singles Chart with his solo single "War Baby".
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Toni Tennille
Cathryn Antoinette "Toni" Tennille (born May 8, 1940, Montgomery, Alabama) is one-half of the 1970s Grammy Award winning duo Captain & Tennille. Tennille has also done musical work independently of her husband Daryl Dragon. Tennille has a contralto vocal range.
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Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett (born Anthony Dominick Benedetto; August 3, 1926) is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz.
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Tony Christie
Tony Christie (born Anthony Fitzgerald on 25 April 1943) is an English musician, singer and actor.
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Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp (born July 1, 1941) is an American dancer and choreographer, who lives and works in New York City.
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Valery Gergiev
Valery Abisalovich Gergiev (; ; born 2 May 1953) is a Russian conductor and opera company director. He is general director and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre and principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. Valery Gergiev is the artistic director of the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg.
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Van Cliburn
Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. (born July 12, 1934), is an American pianist who achieved worldwide recognition in 1958, when at age 23, he won the first quadrennial International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow, at the height of the Cold War.
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Victoria Beckham
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Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty (, ; born March 30, 1937) is an American actor, producer, screenwriter and director.
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Wham!
Wham! was a British duo formed in 1981 by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. They were briefly known in the United States as Wham! UK because of a naming conflict with another existing U.S. band.
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Whitney Houston
Whitney Elizabeth Houston (born August 9, 1963) is an American R&B;/Pop singer, actress, and former fashion model. A relative of several soul singers, including her mother Cissy Houston, cousins Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick, and close family friend Aretha Franklin, Houston began singing at her New Jersey church as a member of a junior gospel choir at age eleven. After she began performing alongside her mother at night clubs in the New York City area, she was discovered by Arista Records label head Clive Davis. Houston has released studio albums and movie soundtrack albums throughout her career, all of which have had diamond, multi-platinum, platinum, or gold certification.
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Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg (; born Caryn Elaine Johnson; November 13, 1955) is an American comedian, actress, singer-songwriter, political activist, and talk show host.
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Will Jennings
Wilbur H. "Will" Jennings (born June 24, 1944, in Kilgore, Texas) is an American songwriter who is known for writing the lyrics for "My Heart Will Go On", the theme for the film Titanic (1997).
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Will Young
William Robert "Will" Young (born 20 January 1979) is a British singer-songwriter and actor. He rose to fame in 2002 after winning the inaugural Pop Idol contest (February 2002), making him the first winner of the now-worldwide Idols-format franchise. He has won multiple awards. Young has sold over eight million albums worldwide.
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William Finn
William Alan Finn (b. February 28, 1952, Boston, Massachusetts) is an American composer and lyricist, especially of musicals.
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Wilson Phillips
Wilson Phillips is an American vocal group consisting of Carnie Wilson, Wendy Wilson and Chynna Phillips.
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Witold Lutosławski
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Yoko Ono
is a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon. Ono brought feminism to the forefront through her music, and is also considered a pioneer and major influence of the 1970s new wave genre. She is a supporter of gay rights and is known for her philanthropic contributions to the arts, peace and AIDS outreach programs.
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Zubin Mehta
Zubin Mehta (born 29 April 1936) is an Indian conductor of Western classical music.
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John, Elton Filmography
- Rocketman (2013)
- The 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2012)
- $ellebrity (2012)
- Finding Billy (2012)
- Top of the Pops: The Story of 1977 (2012)
- Kids-R (2012)
- David Bowie: The Story of Ziggy Stardust (2012)
- David Bowie & the Story of Ziggy Stardust (2012)
- The One and Only Des O'Connor (2012)
- The Diamond Jubilee Concert (2012)
- Gnomeo & Juliet (2011)
- Gnomeo & Juliet (2011)
- A Decade of Difference: A Concert Celebrating 10 Years of the William J. Clinton Foundation (2011)
- The Union (2011)
- The Nation's Favourite Bee Gees Song (2011)
- The Love We Make (2011)
- The Big Fat Quiz of the Year (2011)
- The 37th Annual People's Choice Awards (2011)
- The 2011 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (2011)
- The Royal Wedding (2011)
- Troubadours (2011)
- The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards (2010)
- Pride and Predator (2010)
- Take That: Look Back, Don't Stare (2010)
- Olive shou 2011 (2010)
- NRJ 12 Grammys Awards 2010 (2010)
- The Making of Elton John: Madman Across the Water (2010)
- Elton John & Leon Russell Live from the Beacon Theatre (2010)
- Elton's Cafe (2010)
- Dreams Come True: A Celebration of Disney Animation (2009)
- Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009)
- Starsuckers (2009)
- Brüno (2009)
- The 63rd Annual Tony Awards (2009)
- ...Sings The Beatles (2009)
- Pam: Girl on the Loose (2008)
- The National Television Awards 2008 (2008)
- Elton's New Year Party: Live from The O2 (2008)
- The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008)
- New Year's Eve with Carson Daly (2008)
- Larry King Live: The Greatest Interviews (2007)
- Comic Relief 2007: The Big One (2007)
- My Night at the Grammys (2007)
- Happy Birthday Elton! From Madison Square Garden, New York (2007)
- Michael Parkinson's Greatest Entertainers (2007)
- Elton John: Me, Myself & I (2007)
- Movies Rock (2007)
- Concert for Diana (2007)
- Joe Does the Oscars (2006)
- Hooray for Broadway: A Springtime Celebration (2006)
- From the Big Apple to the Big Easy: The Concert for New Orleans (2006)
- The Art of Football from A to Z (2006)
- Him and Us (2006)
- It's a Boy Girl Thing (2006)
- Rock Legends: Platinum Weird (2006)
- Forbes Celebrity 100: Who Made Bank? (2006)
- Tony Bennett: An American Classic (2006)
- The Queen (2006)
- Tony Bennett: Duets - The Making of an American Classic (2006)
- Inside Elton's World (2005)
- All I Want: A Portrait of Rufus Wainwright (2005)
- All We Are Saying (2005)
- Brit Awards 2005 (2005)
- Comic Relief: Red Nose Night Live 05 (2005)
- Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope (2005)
- Elton John: The Red Piano (2005)
- Elton John: The Red Piano (2005)
- Tommy and Quadrophenia Live: The Who (2005)
- Fashion Rocks (2005)
- 39th Annual Country Music Association Awards (2005)
- George Michael: A Different Story (2005)
- The Real 'Billy Elliot' Diaries (2005)
- Live 8 (2005)
- The Most Shocking Celebrity Moments of 2004 (2005)
- The Big Fat Quiz of the Year (2005)
- 77th Annual Academy Awards - UK (2005)
- Bambi Verleihung 2004 (2004)
- The Royal Variety Performance 2004 (2004)
- The Evolution of Eminem (2004)
- What'd I Say?: A Tribute to Ray Charles (2004)
- Last Laugh '04 (2004)
- George Harrison: The Dark Horse Years 1976-1992 (2004)
- Genius: A Night for Ray Charles (2004)
- 2004 Radio Music Awards (2004)
- The Best of 'So Graham Norton' (2004)
- The Big Fat Quiz of the Year (2004)
- Who Killed Saturday Night TV? (2004)
- The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (2004)
- World Idol (2003)
- Diva Graham Norton (2003)
- The Eurovision Song Contest (2003)
- Holiday Voices (2003)
- Cher: The Farewell Tour (2003)
- 2003 Radio Music Awards (2003)
- Pandemic: Facing AIDS (2003)
- Nina Simone: A Tribute (2003)
- The 60th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2003)
- Get Up, Stand Up (2003)
- The Country Bears (2002)
- 2002 Top of the Pops Awards (2002)
- Naqoyqatsi (2002)
- One World Jam (2002)
- One World Jam: A Concert for Global Harmony (2002)
- Party at the Palace: The Queen's Concerts, Buckingham Palace (2002)
- 2002 Top of the Pops Awards (2002)
- Gala de presentación de la programación 2001 (2001)
- Elton John: One Night Only - Greatest Hits Live (2001)
- Top of the Pops: The True Story (2001)
- 50 Years of NBC Late Night (2001)
- The Royal Variety Performance 2001 (2001)
- The 43rd Annual Grammy Awards (2001)
- The Orange British Academy Film Awards (2001)
- Live by Request: Elton John (2001)
- Classic Albums: Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (2001)
- Wingspan (2001)
- Brit Awards 2001 (2001)
- Bob the Builder: A Christmas to Remember (2001)
- Being Mick (2001)
- Neil Sedaka: The Show Must Go On (2001)
- Star Academy (2001)
- An Evening of Stars: A Celebration of Educational Excellence (2001)
- An All-Star Tribute to Brian Wilson (2001)
- Rockin' New Year's Eve 2002 (2001)
- The Concert for New York City (2001)
- Sandra Bernhard: Giving Them Lip (2001)
- Party in the Park 2000 (2000)
- 47º edición de los premios Ondas (2000)
- An All-Star Tribute to Joni Mitchell (2000)
- Behind the Scenes: Road to El Dorado (2000)
- Elton John - Greatest Hits Live (2000)
- Elton John: The Road to El Dorado (2000)
- Film-Fest DVD: Issue 3 - Toronto (2000)
- Freddie Mercury, the Untold Story (2000)
- La gran vida (2000)
- Stars and Bras (2000)
- The 5th Annual GQ Men of the Year Awards (2000)
- The Road to El Dorado (2000)
- Victoria's Secrets (2000)
- Winter Break (1999)
- VH1 Divas Live 2 (1999)
- Jarl og Elton John (1999)
- Journey to a Hate Free Millennium (1999)
- The Muse (1999)
- The 25th Annual People's Choice Awards (1999)
- Comic Relief: The Record Breaker (1999)
- Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael (1999)
- Desert Flower (1999)
- Elton John: With a Little Help from My Friends (1999)
- Definitely Dusty (1999)
- Concertos Xacobeo 1999 (1999)
- Women Talking Dirty (1999)
- ABC 2000: The Millennium (1999)
- Twentieth Century Blues: The Songs of Noël Coward (1998)
- Diana: The Nation's Farewell (1997)
- BBC Perfect Day (1997)
- Spice World (1997)
- Elton John: Tantrums & Tiaras (1997)
- Music for Montserrat (1997)
- MTV Video Music Awards 1997 (1997)
- An Audience with Elton John (1997)
- Pavarotti & Friends for War Child (1996)
- Brit Awards 1995 (1995)
- Sex with Paula (1995)
- The 67th Annual Academy Awards (1995)
- A Special Evening with Elton John (1995)
- The 52nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (1995)
- The History of Rock 'N' Roll, Vol. 8 (1995)
- MST3K Little Gold Statue Preview Special (1995)
- Champions of the World (1995)
- VH1 Fashion and Music Awards (1995)
- The Making of 'The Lion King' (1994)
- The Brit Awards 1994 (1994)
- American Bandstand's Teen Idol (1994)
- The Wonderful World of Disney: 40 Years of Television Magic (1994)
- The Lion King: A Musical Journey with Elton John (1994)
- Aretha Franklin: Duets (1993)
- Tina Turner: Girl from Nutbush (1993)
- America Comes to Graceland (1993)
- RuPaul's Christmas Ball (1993)
- Especial Nochevieja 1993: Este año cruz y raya... seguro (1993)
- The Who's Tommy, the Amazing Journey (1993)
- MTV Video Music Awards 1992 (1992)
- The Freddie Mercury Tribute: Concert for AIDS Awareness (1992)
- The Very Best of Elton John (1992)
- Elton John: Live in Barcelona (1992)
- Two Rooms: A Tribute to Elton John & Bernie Taupin (1991)
- Queen: The Days of Our Lives (1991)
- Live at Knebworth (1990)
- The Who Live, Featuring the Rock Opera Tommy (1989)
- MTV Rockumentary (1989)
- The Songwriter's Hall of Fame 20th Anniversary... The Magic of Music (1989)
- The Ryan White Story (1989)
- La última cena... del 88 (1988)
- The Prince's Trust Rock Gala (1988)
- Totally Minnie (1988)
- ABC Presents: A Royal Gala (1988)
- Imagine: John Lennon (1988)
- The Magic Years, Vol. 3 (1987)
- Rolling Stone Presents Twenty Years of Rock & Roll (1987)
- Stand by Me: AIDS Day Benefit (1987)
- The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)
- The Return of Bruno (1987)
- The Magic Years, Vol. 1 (1987)
- The Magic Years, Vol. 2 (1987)
- The Prince's Trust Rock Gala: 10th Birthday (1986)
- The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years (1986)
- Live Aid (1985)
- Album Flash (1984)
- Album Flash (1984)
- Elton John in Central Park New York (1981)
- The Roots of Rock 'n' Roll (1981)
- Eric Clapton and His Rolling Hotel (1980)
- Olivia Newton-John: Hollywood Nights (1980)
- To Russia... With Elton (1979)
- The Music for UNICEF Concert: A Gift of Song (1979)
- Night Lunch (1975)
- Tommy (1975)
- Born to Boogie (1972)
- Monsanto Presents Mancini (1971)
- Monsanto Presents Mancini (1971)
- Zomercarroussel (1970)
- Disco 2 (1970)
Elton, John Filmography
- A Dream Come True
- Abide With Me
- Act Of War
- All The Girls Love Alice
- Amen
- American Triangle
- Amoreena
- And The Clock Goes Round
- Annabella Umbrella
- Answer In The Sky
- Baby I Miss You
- Ball and Chain
- Ballad Of A Well Known Gun
- Ballad Of The Boy In The Red Shoes
- Big Man In A Little Suit
- Billy And The Kids
- Bite Your Lip (Get Up And Dance)
- Border Song
- Born Bad
- Breaking Down Barriers
- Can I Put You On
- Can You Feel the Love Tonight
- Can't Get Over Getting Over Losing You
- Candy By The Pound
- Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy
- Chasing The Crown
- Chloe
- Country Love Song
- Crocodile Rock
- Crystal
- Dan Dare (Pilot Of The Future)
- Daniel
- Deep Inside
- Did He Shoot Her?
- Don't Forget To Remember
- Don't Go Breaking My Heart
- Dont Let The Sun Go Down On Me
- Donner Pour Donner
- Dreamboat
- Durban Deep
- Easy As Life
- Ego
- Eight Hundred Dollar Shoes
- Electricity
- Emerald
- Empty Garden (Hey, Hey Johnny)
- Fall Into Christmas
- Fisrt Episode At Hienton
- Flames Of Paradise
- Friends Never Say Goodbye
RELEASE
ALBUMS
- Your Song
- I Need You to Turn To
- Take Me to the Pilot
- No Shoe Strings on Louise
- First Episode at Hienton
- Sixty Years On
- Border Song
- The Greatest Discovery
- The Cage
- The King Must Die
- Bad Side of the Moon
- Grey Seal
- Rock and Roll Madonna
- Your Song
- Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
- Angry Young Man
- The Stranger
- Just the Way You Are
- Allentown
- I Go to Extremes
- My Life
- The River of Dreams
- Candle in the Wind
- It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
- Big Shot
- The Bitch Is Back
- You May Be Right
- Piano Man
- Bennie and the Jets
- Philadelphia Freedom
- Believe
- Daniel
- Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time)
- I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues
- Answer in the Sky
- Tiny Dancer
- Le Cercle de la vie - Nants' Ingonyama
- La Savane
- L'Écho du matin
- La Chasse des mionnes
- Moi, j'veux super vite être roi
- Bon app'
- Ils vivent en toi
- Soyez prêts
- La Ruée des animaux
- Rafiki est en deuil
- Hakuna Matata
- One by One
- La Folie du Roi Scar
- Terre d'ombre
- Nuit sans fin
- Quand soudain l'amour est là
- Il vit en toi (reprise)
- Simba se confronte à Scar
- Le Roi du rocher des lions - Le Cercle de la Vie (reprise)
- Sixty Years On
- Ballad of a Well Known Gun
- Where to Now St. Peter?
- Holiday Inn
- Madman Across the Water
- Levon
- Hercules
- Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters
- Roy Rogers
- High Flying Bird
- Better Off Dead
- Empty Garden (Hey, Hey Johnny)
- Something About the Way You Look Tonight
- The Bridge
- Burn Down the Mission
- Cotton Fields
- Lady D'Arbanville
- Natural Sinner
- Spirit in the Sky
- Travellin' Band
- I Can't Tell the Bottom From the Top
- Good Morning Freedom
- Young, Gifted and Black
- In the Summertime
- Up Around the Bend
- She Sold Me Magic
- Come and Get It
- Love of the Common People
- Signed, Sealed, Delivered
- It's All in the Game
- Yellow River
- Weight of the World
- Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
- Blue Eyes
- Candle in the Wind
- Blessed
- I Stop and I Breathe
- Sacrifice
- A Word in Spanish
- Can You Feel the Love Tonight
- Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time)
- Your Song
- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
- Idol
- Daniel
- Nikita
- The One
- Circle of Life
- Believe
- Bennie and the Jets
- Philadelphia Freedom
- Daniel
- Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time)
- I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues
- Tiny Dancer
- Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
- I Want Love
- Candle in the Wind
- Crocodile Rock
- I'm Still Standing
- Saturday Night's Alright (for Fighting)
- Your Song
- Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
- Sacrifice
- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
- Tinderbox
- Are You Ready for Love
- Just Like Belgium
- Candle in the Wind
- Blue Eyes
- I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues
- I'm Still Standing
- Crocodile Rock
- Don't Go Breaking My Heart
- Your Song
- Nikita
- Sacrifice
- Daniel
- Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
- Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
- Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time)
- Song for Guy
- Circle of Life
- Can You Feel the Love Tonight?
- Tinderbox
- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
- Bennie and the Jets
- Daniel
- Crocodile Rock
- Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
- Philadelphia Freedom
- Island Girl
- Don't Go Breaking My Heart
- Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
- Sacrifice
- Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
- Can You Feel the Love Tonight
- Your Song
- Tiny Dancer
- Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time)
- Candle in the Wind
- Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)
- Postcards From Richard Nixon
- Just Like Noah's Ark
- Wouldn't Have You Any Other Way (NYC)
- Tinderbox
- And the House Fell Down
- Blues Never Fade Away
- The Bridge
- I Must Have Lost It on the Wind
- Old '67
- The Captain and the Kid
- The Stars Look Down
- Shine
- Grandma's Song
- Solidarity
- Expressing Yourself
- The Letter
- Born To Boogie
- Angry Dance
- Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher
- Deep Into The Ground
- He Could Be A Star
- Electricity
- Once We Were Kings
- The Letter (Reprise)
- Finale
- Bennie and The Jets
- Philadelphia Freedom
- Believe
- Daniel
- Rocketman
- I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues
- Answer in the Sky
- Tiny Dancer
- Alles ademt en Leeft / Nants ingonyama
- Lied van de savanne
- Het nieuws van de dag
- Jacht van de leeuwinnen
- Dan den ik de baas van het land
- Kauwauw
- Zij leven voort
- Sta paraat
- Op hol geslagen
- Rafiki rouwt
- Hakuna matata
- One by one
- De waanzin van koning Scar
- Arm land
- Lang is de nacht
- Voel je hoe de liefde groeit
- Hij leeft in jou (reprise)
- Simba tegenover scar
- Koning van de hoge rots / Alles ademt en leeft (reprise)
- L'histoire de la vie
- Je voudrais déjà être roi
- Soyez prêtes
- Hakuna Matata
- L'amour brille sous les étoiles
- Le rapport du matin
- Terres interdites
- La tentation de Simba
- Les Hyènes
- Sous les étoiles
- Sur le rocher des lions
- Can You Feel the Love Tonight? (End Title)
- Can You Feel the Love Tonight? (remix)
- Circle of Life
- Der ewige Kreis
- Grasland Chant
- Der Morgenreport
- Jagd der Löwinnen
- Ich will jetzt gleich König sein
- Putz weg
- Sie leben hier
- Seid bereit
- Die Schlucht
- Rafikis Totenklage
- Hakuna Matata
- One by One
- Der Wahnsinn von König Scar
- Schattenland
- Endlose Nacht
- Kann es wirklich Liebe sein
- Er lebt in dir
- Kampf um den Königsfelsen
- Der König kehrt zurück / Der ewige Kreis (Reprise)
- El Dorado
- Spain 1519/Tulio & Miguel
- The Brig
- We Are Safe
- The Trail We Blaze
- The Gods are Here!!!
- Chelorado
- It's Tough to Be a God
- To Shibala
- Without Question
- The Ball Game
- Friends Never Say Goodbye
- Save El Dorado
- The Panic in Me
- Someday Out of the Blue (End Credits)
- It's Tough to Be a God
- El Dorado (Short Version)
- Hey Armadillo
- El Dorado
- Spain 1519/Tulio & Miguel
- The Brig/Altivo
- We Are Safe
- The Trail We Blaze
- The Gods are Here!!!
- Chelorado
- It's Tough to Be a God
- To Shibala
- Without Question
- The Ball Game
- Friends Never Say Goodbye
- Save El Dorado
- Someday Out of the Blue (End Credits)
- Daniel
- Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
- Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
- Something About the Way You Look Tonight
- Take Me to the Pilot
- The Last Song
- Skyline Pigeon
- Border Song
- Take Me to the Pilot
- Country Comfort
- Love Song
- Bad Side of the Moon
- Burn Down the Mission
- Honky Cat
- Crocodile Rock
- Candle in the Wind
- Your Song
- Satuday Night's Alright (for Fighting)
- Skyline Pigeon
- Border Song
- Take Me to the Pilot
- Country Comfort
- Love Song (feat. Leslie Duncan)
- Bad Side of the Moon
- Burn Down the Mission
- Honky Cat
- Crocodile Rock
- Candle in the Wind
- Your Song
- Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting
- My Baby Loves Lovin'
- Cottonfields
- Lady D'Arbanville
- Natural Sinner
- United We Stand
- Spirit in the Sky
- Travellin' Band
- I Can't Tell the Bottom From the Top
- Good Morning Freedom
- Young, Gifted and Black
- In the Summertime
- Up Around the Bend
- Snake in the Grass
- Neanderthal Man
- She Sold Me Magic
- Come and Get It
- Love of the Common People
- Signed Sealed Delivered
- It's All in the Game
- Yellow River
- Saturday Sun
- Sweet Honesty
- Stormbringer
- Way to Blue
- Go Out and Get It
- The Day Is Done
- Time Has Told Me
- You Get Brighter
- This Moment
- I Don't Mind
- Pied Piper
- I Heard It Through the Grapevine
- I Feel Like a Bullet (In the Gun of Robert Ford)
- Bennie and the Jets
- Tonight
- Better Off Dead
- Idol
- I Think I'm Going to Kill Myself
- Natural Sinner
- United We Stand
- Spirit in the Sky
- Travellin' Band
- I Can't Tell the Bottom From the Top
- Good Morning Freedom
- Up Around the Bend
- She Sold Me Magic
- Come and Get It
- Love of the Common People
- Signed, Sealed, Delivered
- It's All in the Game
- Yellow River
- My Baby Lobes Lovin'
- Cotton Fields
- Lady D'Arbanville
- White Room
- I Shot the Sheriff
- Tearing Us Apart
- Candle in the Wind
- I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues
- Daniel
- Crossroads
- Wonderful Tonight
- Motherless Children
- Tangled in Love
- Blues Power
- Crocodile Rock
- Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting
- Your Song
- Bennie and the Jets
- No Shoe Strings on Louise
- The Cage
- Daniel
- Border Song
- The King Must Be
- I Need You to Turn To
- Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
- Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
- Pinball Wizard
- Bennie and the Jets
- I'm Still Standing
- Sad Songs
- Rocket Man
- Philadelphia Freedom
- Candle In the Wind
- Daniel
- Nikita
- Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting
- Your Song
- I Don't Want To Go On Like That
- Funeral For a Friend
- Love Lies Bleeding
- Your Song
- Part Time Love
- Bennie and the Jets
- Someone Saved My Life Tonight
- Bite Your Lip (Get Up and Dance)
- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
- Don't Go Breaking My Heart
- The Bitch Is Back
- Candle in the Wind
- Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting
- Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
- Daniel
- Are You Ready for Love
- Little Jeannie
- I've Seen That Movie Too
- High Flying Bird
- Heartache All Over the World
- Warm Love in a Cold World
- Cry to Heaven
- Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
- I Need You to Turn To
- Harmony
- Never Gonna Fall in Love Again
- Candle in the Wind
- It's Me That You Need
- Give Me the Love
- We All Fall in Love Sometimes / Curtains
- Crocodile Rock
- Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me
- Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting)
- It’s Me That You Need
- Someone Saved My Life Tonight
- Whatever Gets You Through the Night / Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds (live)
- The Bitch Is Back
- High Flying Bird
- Elderberry Wine
- Candle in the Wind
- Your Sister Can’t Twist (But She Can Rock ’n’ Roll)
- Daniel
- Don't Go Breaking My Heart
- Island Girl
- The Bitch Is Back
- Honky Cat
- Bennie and the Jets
- Someone Saved My Life Tonight
- Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
- Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
- Mama Can't Buy You Love
- Philadelphia Freedom
- Crocodile Rock
- Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time)
- Daniel
- Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
- Your Song
- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
- Blue Eyes
- Song For Guy
- Don't Go Breaking My Heart
- Daniel
- Candle In The Wind
- Part Time Love
- Rocket Man
- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
- Crocodile Rock
- Funeral For A Friend / Love Lies Bleeding
- Your Song
- Tiny Dancer
- Nobody Wins
- Little Jeannie
- Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
- Your Song
- Daniel
- Honky Cat
- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
- Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting
- Rocket Man
- Bennie and the Jets
- Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
- Border Song
- Crocodile Rock
- [introduction]
- Your Song
- Honesty
- Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
- We Didn't Start the Fire
- Pressure
- Just the Way You Are
- I Go to Extremes
- My Life
- Candle in the Wind
- River of Dreams
- It's Still Rock & Roll to Me
- Scenes From an Italian Restaurant
- Prologue
- The Thirst, Part 1
- The Crimson Kiss
- Welcome to the New World
- I Want More
- Sail Me Away
- After All This Time
- The Thirst, Part 2
- Island Girl
- Made In England
- The One
- Someone Saved My Life Tonight
- Don't Go Breaking My Heart
- Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
- Blue Eyes
- Believe
- Tiny Dancer
- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
- Circle Of Life
- Are You Ready For Love
- Bennie And The Jets [Live]
- This Train Don't Stop There Anymore
- Saturday Night's Alright
- Nikita
- Honky Cat
- Three Way Love Affair
- Crocodile Rock
- I'm Still Standing
- The Bitch Is Back
- Rocket Man
- Kiss The Bride
- I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues
- Sad Songs
- Daniel
- Candle In The Wind
- Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me
- Written In The Stars
- Song For Guy
- Philadelphia Freedom
- Your Song
- Sacrifice
- Something About The Way You Look Tonight
- Can You Feel The Love Tonight
- I Want Love
- Candle in the Wind
- Sweet Painted Lady
- Your Sister Can't Twist
- Harmony
- Crocodile Rock
- Daniel
- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
- Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting
- Have Mercy on the Criminal
- Bennie and the Jets
- Grey Seal
- I Think I'm Going to Kill Myself
- Mellow
- Mona Lisa & Mad Haters
- Honky Cat
- Rocket Man
- Your Song
- If It Wasn't for Bad
- Eight Hundred Dollar Shoes
- Hey Ahab
- Gone to Shiloh
- Jimmie Rodgers' Dream
- There's No Tomorrow
- Monkey Suit
- The Best Part of the Day
- A Dream Come True
- When Love Is Dying
- I Should Have Sent Roses
- Hearts Have Turned to Stone
- Never Too Old (to Hold Somebody)
- In the Hands of Angels
- Rocket Man
- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
- Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
- Honky Cat
- Your Song
- Crocodile Rock
- Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting
- Candle in the Wind
- Border Song
- Daniel
- Funeral for a Friend
- It's Me That You Need
- Your Song
- Rock Me When He's Gone
- Come Down In Time
- Skyline Pigeon
- Rotten Peaches
- Indian Sunset
- Balad of a Well-Known Gun
- Friends
- The King Must Die
- Holiday Inn [with missing lyric]
- Can I Put You On
- Country Comfort
- Your Song
- The Greatest Discovery
- Border Song
- Daniel
- Sweet Painted Lady
- Rocket Man
- I Heard It Through the Grapevine
- Candle in the Wind
- Roy Rogers
- Dan Dare (Pilot of the Future)
- Cage the Songbird
- Where to Now St. Peter
- Ticking
- Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
- Scene: Dance Tutoring
- Born to Boogie
- Scene: Billy & Debbie / The Plan
- Scene: Billy is Caught
- Angry Dance
- Scene: Christmas Party
- Merry Christmas Mrs Thatcher
- Deep Into the Ground
- Scene: Billy & Michael
- Scene: Billy & Older Billy Dance / Fly
- Scene: Dad & Mrs Wilkinson
- He Could Be a Star
- Scene: The Collection
- Stars Look Down (reprise)
- Scene: Royal Ballet School
- Electricity
- Act 1: Newsreel
- Act 1: The Stars Look Down
- Act 1: Scene: Breakfast at Billy's
- Act 1: Scene: Billy & Grandma
- Act 1: Scene: Boxing Class
- Act 1: Scene: Ballet Class
- Act 1: Shine
- Act 1: Scene: After Ballet
- Act 1: Scene: Billy & Grandma
- Act 1: Grandma's Song
- Act 1: Scene: Back From Ballet
- Act 1: Solidarity
- Act 1: Scene: Dad Finds Out
- Act 1: Scene: Billy & Mrs Wilkinson
- Act 1: Scene: Michael's House
- Act 1: Expressing Yourself
- Act 1: Scene: Billy House
- Act 1: The Letter
- Act 1: Scene: Dance Tutoring
- Act 1: Born to Boogie
- Act 1: Scene: Billy & Debbie
- Act 1: Scene: The Plan
- Act 1: Scene: Billy's Caught
- Act 1: Angry Dance
- Act 1: Scene: Christmas Party
- Act 2: Merry Chirstmas Mrs Thatcher
- Act 2: Deep Into the Ground
- Act 2: Scene: Billy & Michael
- Act 2: Scene: Billy & Older Billy Dance & Fly
- Act 2: Scene: Dad & The Dance Class
- Act 2: He Could Be a Star
- Act 2: Scene: The Collection
- Act 2: Stars Look Down (reprise)
- Act 2: Scene: Royal Ballet School
- Act 2: Electricity
- Annabella Umberella
- Reminds Me of You
- I Love You and That's All That Matters
- Last to Arrive
- There Is Still a Little Love
- There's Still Time for Me
- Sara's Coming Back
- Lady What's Tomorrow
- I Need You to Turn To
- Son of Your Father
- The Tide Will Turn for Rebecca
- Rock and Roll Madonna
- Grey Seal
- The Cage
- Rock Me When He's Gone
- Holiday Inn
- I Get a Little Bit Lonely
- Scarecrow
- Velvet Fountain
- The Tide Will Turn for Rebecca
- Sitting Doing Nothing
- When the First Tear Shows
- Thank You for Your Loving
- Get Out (Of This Town)
- Tartan Coloured Lady
- Angel Tree
- Turn to Me
- I Can't Go on Living Without You
- 71-75 New Oxford Street
- When I Was Tealby Abbey
- And the Clock Goes Round
- Regimental Sgt. Zippo
- A Dandelion Dies in the Wind
- You'll Be Sorry to See Me Go
- Come Down in Time
- Amoreena (demo)
- Burn Down the Mission (demo)
- Madman Across the Water (demo)
- Rolling Western Union (demo)
- My Father's Gun (demo)
- Where to Now St. Peter (demo)
- Country Comfort (demo)
- Day Is Done
- Saturday Sun
- Sweet Honesty
- Way to Blue
- Stormbringer
- Time Has Told Me
- Go Out and Get It
- Tiny Dancer
- All the Nasties
- Rock Me When He's Gone
- Your Song
- Someone Saved My Life Tonight
- Philadelphia Freedom
- Come Down in Time
- Rocket Man
- Honkey Cat
- I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues
- Sad Songs (Say So Much)
- Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
- I'm Still Standing
- The Bitch Is Back
- Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting
- Bennie and the Jets
- Border Song
- Candle in the Wind
- Crocodile Rock
- Empty Sky
- Honky Cat
- Rock and Roll Madonna
- Skyline Pigeon
- Son of Your Father
- Take Me to the Pilot
- The Scanffold
- This Song Has No Title
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Elton John - Your song
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- Duration: 4:06
- Updated: 05 Nov 2012
It's a little bit funny this feeling inside I'm not one of those who can easily hide I don't have much money but boy if I did I'd buy a big house where we both could live If I was a sculptor, but then again, no Or a man who makes potions in a travelling show I know it's not much but it's the best I can do My gift is my song and this one's for you And you can tell everybody this is your song It may be quite simple but now that it's done I hope you don't mind I hope you don't mind that I put down in words How wonderful life is while you're in the world I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss Well a few of the verses well they've got me quite cross But the sun's been quite kind while I wrote this song It's for people like you that keep it turned on So excuse me forgetting but these things I do You see I've forgotten if they're green or they're blue Anyway the thing is what I really mean Yours are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen
http://wn.com/Elton_John_Your_song
Elton John - Sacrifice
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- Duration: 4:50
- Updated: 05 Nov 2012
Music video by Elton John performing Sacrifice. (C) 1989 Mercury Records Limited
http://wn.com/Elton_John_Sacrifice
Elton John - Circle Of Life (High Quality)
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- Duration: 4:46
- Updated: 04 Nov 2012
Elton John - Circle Of Life Elton John - Kruh Zivota -Lyrics- From the day we arrive on the planet And blinking, step into the sun Theres more to be seen than can ever be seen More to do than can ever be done Some say eat or be eaten Some say live and let live But all are agreed as they join the stampede You should never take more than you give In the circle of life Its the wheel of fortune Its the leap of faith Its the band of hope Till we find our place On the path unwinding In the circle, the circle of life Some of us fall by the wayside And some of us soar to the stars And some of us sail through our troubles And some have to live with the scars Theres far too much to take in here More to find than can ever be found But the sun rolling high through the sapphire sky Keeps great and small on the endless round
http://wn.com/Elton_John_Circle_Of_Life_High_Quality
Elton John - I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues
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- Duration: 4:43
- Updated: 05 Nov 2012
Music video by Elton John performing I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues. (C) 1983 Mercury Records Limited
http://wn.com/Elton_John_I_Guess_That's_Why_They_Call_It_The_Blues
Elton John - I'm Still Standing
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- Duration: 3:05
- Updated: 04 Nov 2012
Music video by Elton John performing I'm Still Standing. (C) 1983 Mercury Records Limited
http://wn.com/Elton_John_I'm_Still_Standing
Elton John - Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word - 1976
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- Duration: 3:31
- Updated: 04 Nov 2012
Elton John In BBC 1976
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Elton John - Candle In The Wind
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- Duration: 4:26
- Updated: 05 Nov 2012
Music video by Elton John performing Candle In The Wind Live in Australia. (C) 2007 Mercury Records Limited
http://wn.com/Elton_John_Candle_In_The_Wind
Elton John vs Pnau - Sad
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- Duration: 3:26
- Updated: 04 Nov 2012
Taken from the forthcoming album Elton John vs Pnau -- Good Morning To The Night Out 16th July. Pre-order at www.eltonjohnversuspnau.com Sign up bit.ly Music video by Elton John vs Pnau performing Sad. (C) 2012 Mercury Records Limited
http://wn.com/Elton_John_vs_Pnau_Sad
The Queens Diamond Jubilee Concert - Sir Elton John
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- Duration: 13:09
- Updated: 03 Nov 2012
The Queens Diamond Jubilee Concert outside Buckingham Palace London 04th June 2012
http://wn.com/The_Queens_Diamond_Jubilee_Concert_Sir_Elton_John
Elton John - Tiny Dancer
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- Duration: 6:01
- Updated: 04 Nov 2012
Elton John in '71.
http://wn.com/Elton_John_Tiny_Dancer
Elton John-Crocodile Rock
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- Duration: 4:03
- Updated: 04 Nov 2012
Elton john sings crocodile rock live
http://wn.com/Elton_John-Crocodile_Rock
Elton John - Something About The Way You Look Tonight
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- Duration: 4:07
- Updated: 04 Nov 2012
Music video by Elton John performing Something About The Way You Look Tonight. (C) 2007 Mercury Records Limited
http://wn.com/Elton_John_Something_About_The_Way_You_Look_Tonight
Your Song - Elton John
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- Duration: 3:58
- Updated: 05 Nov 2012
Minha música favorita... linda, linda e linda!! My favorite song... just beautiful!! "Your Song" by Elton Jonh *DISCLAIMER* Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. I DO NOT OWN THE SONG OR THE LYRICS. IT'S JUST A TRIBUTE TO THIS AMAZING ARTIST!
http://wn.com/Your_Song_Elton_John
Elton John - Can you feel the love tonight Live (Rare Video)
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- Duration: 3:36
- Updated: 04 Nov 2012
Elton John - Can you feel the love tonight Live (Rare Video)
http://wn.com/Elton_John_Can_you_feel_the_love_tonight_Live_Rare_Video
Elton John - Rocket Man
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- Duration: 4:44
- Updated: 05 Nov 2012
My video for Rocket Man. I'll disable comments if there is any homophobic people, religious fanatics, cheap philosophers and people who dont appreciate good, genuine music and video.
http://wn.com/Elton_John_Rocket_Man
ELTON JOHN - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (TOTP 1973)
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- Duration: 3:00
- Updated: 04 Nov 2012
Elton John - "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" (TOTP 1973)
http://wn.com/ELTON_JOHN_Goodbye_Yellow_Brick_Road_TOTP_1973
Eminem ft. Elton John - Stan (Live at Grammys)
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- Duration: 6:35
- Updated: 04 Nov 2012
Eminem ft. Elton John - Stan (Live at Grammys)
http://wn.com/Eminem_ft_Elton_John_Stan_Live_at_Grammys
Elton John- Levon
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- Duration: 5:22
- Updated: 03 Nov 2012
Song: "Levon" Artist: Elton John Album: Madman Across the Water Year: 1971 My favorite Elton John song.
http://wn.com/Elton_John_Levon
Elton John, Madonna's Public Smackdown
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- Duration: 4:00
- Updated: 02 Nov 2012
She's never been afraid to "Express Herself," and Madonna opens up about Lady Gaga.
http://wn.com/Elton_John,_Madonna's_Public_Smackdown
Elton John on Today Show
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- Duration: 13:07
- Updated: 01 Nov 2012
www.eternalspiritus.com Elton John talks about his life and new book "Love Is the Cure Ending the Global AIDS Epidemic" to Matt Lauer. Intro by Eternal Spiritus - Just A Man Copyright held by NBC for EJ Interview. Copyright held by Eternal Spiritus for Just A Man
http://wn.com/Elton_John_on_Today_Show
Elton John- Daniel
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- Duration: 3:53
- Updated: 04 Nov 2012
One of Elton John's greatest hits--Daniel.
http://wn.com/Elton_John_Daniel
Elton John Jubilee Performance
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- Duration: 12:15
- Updated: 04 Nov 2012
http://wn.com/Elton_John_Jubilee_Performance
2. Elton John (Live In Sydney: 12/14/1986) (Part 2: With The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra)
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- Duration: 108:50
- Updated: 02 Nov 2012
Here's a little treat for you all! I will be uploading the COMPLETE Sydney 1986 concert on Youtube. Due to Youtube's generous lift of the time limit, I have divided the concert in two separate videos: One video is part 1 of the concert (the band), and the second video is part 2 of the concert (with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra). Also, in the future, I will upload the concert with just the audio (if you don't want to "watch" the concert). The video quality is pretty good, and I remastered the sound (EQ'ing and turning it from mono to stereo). The concert is epic: With over three hours of music, awesome showmanship, excellent musical performances, and Elton having a blast, this concert ranks highly among Elton John fans, and is generally considered one of Elton's best concerts! The only negative? Elton's voice is COMPLETELY FUCKING SHOT! The whole first part of the concert has him in terrible voice, and his vocal nodules cause him to inadvertently hit whistle notes, and hit as many as 20 notes at the same time (vocal nodules emit frequencies when struck). Some of Elton's worst-ever vocal performances are in the first part of the show. By the second part, his voice does improve slightly, and the roughness actually works on some songs ("The King Must Die," "Take Me To The Pilot," and "Your Song" are examples). PART 1: www.youtube.com Since the videos are so long, I will provide the set-list, and time-stamp every song: 0:00 = Cheering 1:30 = Sixty Years On 6:19 = Elton's ...
http://wn.com/2_Elton_John_Live_In_Sydney_12_14_1986_Part_2_With_The_Melbourne_Symphony_Orchestra
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Elton John - Your Song (live)
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- Duration: 4:48
- Updated: 30 Oct 2012
Elton John playing Your Song live at the Royal Opera House
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ELTON JOHN | Live in Rome (Italy, 2005)
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- Duration: 77:05
- Updated: 28 Oct 2012
Tracklist: 1 - Pinball Wizard 2 - Daniel 3 - Rocket Man 4 - Sacrifice 5 - Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word 6 - Candle in the Wind 7 - They Call Her the Cat 8 - Sad Songs 9 - Don´t Let the Sun Go Down on Me 10 - I´m Still Standing 11 - Bitch is Back 12 - Saturday Night is Alright 13 - Crocodrile Rock 14 - Your Song
http://wn.com/ELTON_JOHN_|_Live_in_Rome_Italy,_2005
2. Elton John (Live In Sydney: 12/14/1986) (Part 2: With The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra)
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- Duration: 108:50
- Updated: 30 Oct 2012
Here's a little treat for you all! I will be uploading the COMPLETE Sydney 1986 concert on Youtube. Due to Youtube's generous lift of the time limit, I have divided the concert in two separate videos: One video is part 1 of the concert (the band), and the second video is part 2 of the concert (with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra). Also, in the future, I will upload the concert with just the audio (if you don't want to "watch" the concert). The video quality is pretty good, and I remastered the sound (EQ'ing and turning it from mono to stereo). The concert is epic: With over three hours of music, awesome showmanship, excellent musical performances, and Elton having a blast, this concert ranks highly among Elton John fans, and is generally considered one of Elton's best concerts! The only negative? Elton's voice is COMPLETELY FUCKING SHOT! The whole first part of the concert has him in terrible voice, and his vocal nodules cause him to inadvertently hit whistle notes, and hit as many as 20 notes at the same time (vocal nodules emit frequencies when struck). Some of Elton's worst-ever vocal performances are in the first part of the show. By the second part, his voice does improve slightly, and the roughness actually works on some songs ("The King Must Die," "Take Me To The Pilot," and "Your Song" are examples). PART 1: www.youtube.com Since the videos are so long, I will provide the set-list, and time-stamp every song: 0:00 = Cheering 1:30 = Sixty Years On 6:19 = Elton's ...
http://wn.com/2_Elton_John_Live_In_Sydney_12_14_1986_Part_2_With_The_Melbourne_Symphony_Orchestra
Eminem ft. Elton John - Stan (Live at Grammys)
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- Duration: 6:35
- Updated: 01 Nov 2012
Eminem ft. Elton John - Stan (Live at Grammys)
http://wn.com/Eminem_ft_Elton_John_Stan_Live_at_Grammys
The Queens Diamond Jubilee Concert - Sir Elton John
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- Duration: 13:09
- Updated: 31 Oct 2012
The Queens Diamond Jubilee Concert outside Buckingham Palace London 04th June 2012
http://wn.com/The_Queens_Diamond_Jubilee_Concert_Sir_Elton_John
Elton John Live london 1974 Full Concert !
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- Duration: 61:40
- Updated: 29 Oct 2012
Live at Hammersmith apolo
http://wn.com/Elton_John_Live_london_1974_Full_Concert_!
1. Elton John (Live In Sydney: 12/14/1986) (Part 1: With The Band)
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- Duration: 73:46
- Updated: 20 Oct 2012
Here's a little treat for you all! I will be uploading the COMPLETE Sydney 1986 concert on Youtube. Due to Youtube's generous lift of the time limit, I have divided the concert in two separate videos: One video is part 1 of the concert (the band), and the second video is part 2 of the concert (with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra). Also, in the future, I will upload the concert with just the audio (if you don't want to "watch" the concert). The video quality is pretty good, and I remastered the sound (EQ'ing and turning it from mono to stereo). The concert is epic: With over three hours of music, awesome showmanship, excellent musical performances, and Elton having a blast, this concert ranks highly among Elton John fans, and is generally considered one of Elton's best concerts! The only negative? Elton's voice is COMPLETELY FUCKING SHOT! The whole first part of the concert has him in terrible voice, and his vocal nodules cause him to inadvertently hit whistle notes, and hit as many as 20 notes at the same time (vocal nodules emit frequencies when struck). Some of Elton's worst-ever vocal performances are in the first part of the show. By the second part, his voice does improve slightly, and the roughness actually works on some songs ("The King Must Die," "Take Me To The Pilot," and "Your Song" are examples). PART 2: www.youtube.com Since the videos are so long, I will provide the set-list, and time-stamp every song: 0:00 = Funeral For A Friend 1:22 = One Horse Town (AKA ...
http://wn.com/1_Elton_John_Live_In_Sydney_12_14_1986_Part_1_With_The_Band
Elton John - LIVE in Kiev, Ukraine 30th June 2012
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- Duration: 25:23
- Updated: 31 Oct 2012
http://wn.com/Elton_John_LIVE_in_Kiev,_Ukraine_30th_June_2012
Elton John - Can you feel the love tonight Live (Rare Video)
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- Duration: 3:36
- Updated: 31 Oct 2012
Elton John - Can you feel the love tonight Live (Rare Video)
http://wn.com/Elton_John_Can_you_feel_the_love_tonight_Live_Rare_Video
Elton John - I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues
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- Duration: 4:43
- Updated: 01 Nov 2012
Music video by Elton John performing I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues. (C) 1983 Mercury Records Limited
http://wn.com/Elton_John_I_Guess_That's_Why_They_Call_It_The_Blues
Rocket Man by Elton John Live at Ephesus
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- Duration: 10:33
- Updated: 01 Nov 2012
title says it all
http://wn.com/Rocket_Man_by_Elton_John_Live_at_Ephesus
Elton John Elton 60 Live At Madison Square Garden 2007
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- Duration: 198:01
- Updated: 31 Oct 2012
http://wn.com/Elton_John_Elton_60_Live_At_Madison_Square_Garden_2007
Elton John - Daniel - Live Edinburgh 1976
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- Duration: 4:09
- Updated: 31 Oct 2012
Elton John live at the Playhouse Theatre in Edinburgh Scotland 1976. Solo Piano Show.
http://wn.com/Elton_John_Daniel_Live_Edinburgh_1976
Elton John - Levon (Live in New York 2004)
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- Duration: 6:57
- Updated: 31 Oct 2012
Live at Radio City Music Hall New York City 2004
http://wn.com/Elton_John_Levon_Live_in_New_York_2004
Peace One Day Celebration - Elton John - Tiny Dancer (Live)
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- Duration: 6:41
- Updated: 31 Oct 2012
From Peace One Day Concert - September 21st, 2012 - Wembley Arena Song #4/14
http://wn.com/Peace_One_Day_Celebration_Elton_John_Tiny_Dancer_Live
Elton John - I'm Still Standing
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- Duration: 3:05
- Updated: 01 Nov 2012
Music video by Elton John performing I'm Still Standing. (C) 1983 Mercury Records Limited
http://wn.com/Elton_John_I'm_Still_Standing
Elton John Levon Live 1971
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- Duration: 4:53
- Updated: 31 Oct 2012
Elton John Levon Live 1971 I do not own this video
http://wn.com/Elton_John_Levon_Live_1971
Elton John - Bennie and the Jets (Live in Edinburgh, 1976)
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- Duration: 5:22
- Updated: 31 Oct 2012
from the solo concert in Edinburgh
http://wn.com/Elton_John_Bennie_and_the_Jets_Live_in_Edinburgh,_1976
Elton John, Axl Rose - Bohemian Rhapsody - Live
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- Duration: 5:26
- Updated: 31 Oct 2012
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide No escape from reality Open your eyes Look up to the skies and see I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy Because I'm easy come, easy go A little high, little low Anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me, to me Mama, just killed a man Put a gun against his head Pulled my trigger, now he's dead Mama, life had just begun But now I've gone and thrown it all away Mama, ooo Didn't mean to make you cry If I'm not back again this time tomorrow Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters Too late, my time has come Sends shivers down my spine Body's aching all the time Goodbye everybody - I've got to go Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth Mama, ooo - (anyway the wind blows) I don't want to die I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all I see a little silhouetto of a man Scaramouch, scaramouch will you do the fandango Thunderbolt and lightning - very very frightening me Gallileo, Gallileo, Gallileo, Gallileo, Gallileo Figaro - magnifico But I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me He's just a poor boy from a poor family Spare him his life from this monstrosity Easy come easy go - will you let me go Bismillah! No - we will not let you go - let him go Bismillah! We will not let you go - let him go Bismillah! We will not let you go - let me go Will not let you go - let me go (never) Never let you go - let me go Never let me go - ooo No, no, no, no, no, no, no - Oh mama mia, mama mia, mama mia ...
http://wn.com/Elton_John,_Axl_Rose_Bohemian_Rhapsody_Live
ELTON JOHN - LITTLE JEANNIE - LIVE AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN (HQ-856X480)
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ELTON JOHN - LITTLE JEANNIE - LIVE AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN Oh little Jeannie, you got so much love, little Jeannie And you take it where it strikes and give it to the likes of me Oh little Jeannie, she got so much love, little Jeannie So I see you when I can, you make me all a man can be And I want you to be my acrobat, I want you to be my lover Oh there were others who would treat you cruel And oh little Jeannie, you were always someone's fool Little Jeannie, you got so much time, little Jeannie Though you've grown beyond your years, you still retain the fears of youth Oh little Jeannie, you got so much time, little Jeannie But you're burning it up so fast, searching for some lasting truth And I want you to be my acrobat, I want you to be my lover Oh there were others who would treat you cruel But oh Jeannie, I will always be your fool And I want you to be my acrobat, I want you to be my lover Oh there were others, and I've known quite a few But oh oh Jeannie, I'm still in love with you Stepped into my life from a bad dream Making the life that I had seem suddenly shiny and new Oh Jeannie I'm so in love with you Stepped into my life from a bad dream
http://wn.com/ELTON_JOHN_LITTLE_JEANNIE_LIVE_AT_MADISON_SQUARE_GARDEN_HQ-856X480
Elton John - Something About The Way You Look Tonight
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- Duration: 4:07
- Updated: 01 Nov 2012
Music video by Elton John performing Something About The Way You Look Tonight. (C) 2007 Mercury Records Limited
http://wn.com/Elton_John_Something_About_The_Way_You_Look_Tonight
Elton John & George Michael ☮ Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me (Highest Quality)
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- Duration: 7:31
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Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 1976
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The first Leg of the 1976 "Louder Than Concorde(but not quite as pretty)" Tour took Elton and his band through the UK and this was the second night at Earl's Court in London. May 12th 1976. The back up singer in the bright striped shirt is Cindy Bullens, a Boston girl who crashed an MCA party in 1975 and was asked if she'd like to go on the road for the West Of The Rockies Tour, and the rest is history. Cindy would have her first hit in 1979 with a song called "Survivor". For Elton this was his peak for sure! Enjoy!!!
http://wn.com/Elton_John_Goodbye_Yellow_Brick_Road_1976
4:48
Elton John - Your Song (live)
Elton John playing Your Song live at the Royal Opera House...
published: 03 Mar 2008
author: WhisperLady023
Elton John - Your Song (live)
Elton John playing Your Song live at the Royal Opera House
published: 03 Mar 2008
author: WhisperLady023
views: 2334932
77:05
ELTON JOHN | Live in Rome (Italy, 2005)
Tracklist: 1 - Pinball Wizard 2 - Daniel 3 - Rocket Man 4 - Sacrifice 5 - Sorry Seems to b...
published: 23 Jun 2012
author: MrSameEverynight
ELTON JOHN | Live in Rome (Italy, 2005)
Tracklist: 1 - Pinball Wizard 2 - Daniel 3 - Rocket Man 4 - Sacrifice 5 - Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word 6 - Candle in the Wind 7 - They Call Her the Cat 8 - Sad Songs 9 - Don´t Let the Sun Go Down on Me 10 - I´m Still Standing 11 - Bitch is Back 12 - Saturday Night is Alright 13 - Crocodrile Rock 14 - Your Song
published: 23 Jun 2012
author: MrSameEverynight
views: 2302
108:50
2. Elton John (Live In Sydney: 12/14/1986) (Part 2: With The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra)
Here's a little treat for you all! I will be uploading the COMPLETE Sydney 1986 concert on...
published: 01 Apr 2011
author: GregsynthWizard
2. Elton John (Live In Sydney: 12/14/1986) (Part 2: With The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra)
Here's a little treat for you all! I will be uploading the COMPLETE Sydney 1986 concert on Youtube. Due to Youtube's generous lift of the time limit, I have divided the concert in two separate videos: One video is part 1 of the concert (the band), and the second video is part 2 of the concert (with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra). Also, in the future, I will upload the concert with just the audio (if you don't want to "watch" the concert). The video quality is pretty good, and I remastered the sound (EQ'ing and turning it from mono to stereo). The concert is epic: With over three hours of music, awesome showmanship, excellent musical performances, and Elton having a blast, this concert ranks highly among Elton John fans, and is generally considered one of Elton's best concerts! The only negative? Elton's voice is COMPLETELY FUCKING SHOT! The whole first part of the concert has him in terrible voice, and his vocal nodules cause him to inadvertently hit whistle notes, and hit as many as 20 notes at the same time (vocal nodules emit frequencies when struck). Some of Elton's worst-ever vocal performances are in the first part of the show. By the second part, his voice does improve slightly, and the roughness actually works on some songs ("The King Must Die," "Take Me To The Pilot," and "Your Song" are examples). PART 1: www.youtube.com Since the videos are so long, I will provide the set-list, and time-stamp every song: 0:00 = Cheering 1:30 = Sixty Years On 6:19 = Elton's ...
published: 01 Apr 2011
author: GregsynthWizard
views: 24799
6:35
Eminem ft. Elton John - Stan (Live at Grammys)
Eminem ft. Elton John - Stan (Live at Grammys)...
published: 07 Jun 2006
author: empire4001
Eminem ft. Elton John - Stan (Live at Grammys)
Eminem ft. Elton John - Stan (Live at Grammys)
published: 07 Jun 2006
author: empire4001
views: 5671347
13:09
The Queens Diamond Jubilee Concert - Sir Elton John
The Queens Diamond Jubilee Concert outside Buckingham Palace London 04th June 2012...
published: 05 Jun 2012
author: surethom
The Queens Diamond Jubilee Concert - Sir Elton John
The Queens Diamond Jubilee Concert outside Buckingham Palace London 04th June 2012
published: 05 Jun 2012
author: surethom
views: 90581
61:40
Elton John Live london 1974 Full Concert !
Live at Hammersmith apolo...
published: 13 Sep 2012
author: lounisproduction
Elton John Live london 1974 Full Concert !
73:46
1. Elton John (Live In Sydney: 12/14/1986) (Part 1: With The Band)
Here's a little treat for you all! I will be uploading the COMPLETE Sydney 1986 concert on...
published: 31 Mar 2011
author: GregsynthWizard
1. Elton John (Live In Sydney: 12/14/1986) (Part 1: With The Band)
Here's a little treat for you all! I will be uploading the COMPLETE Sydney 1986 concert on Youtube. Due to Youtube's generous lift of the time limit, I have divided the concert in two separate videos: One video is part 1 of the concert (the band), and the second video is part 2 of the concert (with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra). Also, in the future, I will upload the concert with just the audio (if you don't want to "watch" the concert). The video quality is pretty good, and I remastered the sound (EQ'ing and turning it from mono to stereo). The concert is epic: With over three hours of music, awesome showmanship, excellent musical performances, and Elton having a blast, this concert ranks highly among Elton John fans, and is generally considered one of Elton's best concerts! The only negative? Elton's voice is COMPLETELY FUCKING SHOT! The whole first part of the concert has him in terrible voice, and his vocal nodules cause him to inadvertently hit whistle notes, and hit as many as 20 notes at the same time (vocal nodules emit frequencies when struck). Some of Elton's worst-ever vocal performances are in the first part of the show. By the second part, his voice does improve slightly, and the roughness actually works on some songs ("The King Must Die," "Take Me To The Pilot," and "Your Song" are examples). PART 2: www.youtube.com Since the videos are so long, I will provide the set-list, and time-stamp every song: 0:00 = Funeral For A Friend 1:22 = One Horse Town (AKA ...
published: 31 Mar 2011
author: GregsynthWizard
views: 9647
25:23
Elton John - LIVE in Kiev, Ukraine 30th June 2012
...
published: 30 Jun 2012
author: MUvsArsenal
Elton John - LIVE in Kiev, Ukraine 30th June 2012
3:36
Elton John - Can you feel the love tonight Live (Rare Video)
Elton John - Can you feel the love tonight Live (Rare Video)...
published: 07 Feb 2009
author: EltonJ0hn
Elton John - Can you feel the love tonight Live (Rare Video)
Elton John - Can you feel the love tonight Live (Rare Video)
published: 07 Feb 2009
author: EltonJ0hn
views: 6736981
4:43
Elton John - I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues
Music video by Elton John performing I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues. (C) 1983 M...
published: 01 Sep 2010
author: EltonJohnVEVO
Elton John - I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues
Music video by Elton John performing I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues. (C) 1983 Mercury Records Limited
published: 01 Sep 2010
author: EltonJohnVEVO
views: 2123878
10:33
Rocket Man by Elton John Live at Ephesus
title says it all...
published: 25 Mar 2009
author: woicykinator
Rocket Man by Elton John Live at Ephesus
4:09
Elton John - Daniel - Live Edinburgh 1976
Elton John live at the Playhouse Theatre in Edinburgh Scotland 1976. Solo Piano Show....
published: 13 Feb 2009
author: godwhyisthistaken
Elton John - Daniel - Live Edinburgh 1976
Elton John live at the Playhouse Theatre in Edinburgh Scotland 1976. Solo Piano Show.
published: 13 Feb 2009
author: godwhyisthistaken
views: 398730
6:57
Elton John - Levon (Live in New York 2004)
Live at Radio City Music Hall New York City 2004...
published: 18 Jan 2008
author: nutcher1978
Elton John - Levon (Live in New York 2004)
Live at Radio City Music Hall New York City 2004
published: 18 Jan 2008
author: nutcher1978
views: 433352
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5:22
All Of The Lights
WARNING: This video has been identified by Epilepsy Action to potentially trigger
seizure...
published: 19 Feb 2011
author: Hadaya Turner
All Of The Lights
WARNING: This video has been identified by Epilepsy Action to potentially trigger
seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised.
Features: Kanye West (Rihanna, Elton John, Fergie, John Legend, The-Dream, Ryan Leslie,
Tony Williams, Charlie Wilson, La Roux’s Elly Jackson, Alicia Keys and Kid Cudi)
Director: Hype Williams
Lead Editor & MoGFX: Hadaya Turner
Release: 02.19.2011
2011 VMA Nominations:
**Best Editing**
Best Hip-Hop Video
Best Male Video
Best Collaboration
47:26
Megalightning
ENTIRELY NEW FORMS OF LIGHTNING HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED UP TO 1000 TIMES BIGGER THAN ANY BOLT...
published: 07 Jul 2011
author: dmptv
Megalightning
ENTIRELY NEW FORMS OF LIGHTNING HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED UP TO 1000 TIMES BIGGER THAN ANY BOLT PREVIOUSLY SEEN. WHILE NORMAL LIGHTNING FIRES DOWN BELOW CLOUDS, THESE GIANT BOLTS SHOOT UP, STUNNING EXPERTS WITH IMAGES OF LIGHTNING 80 KILOMETRES HIGH.
THIS LIGHTNING, SIX TIMES MORE POWERFUL THAN PASSENGER PLANES ARE DESIGNED TO WITHSTAND, MAY BE THE REAL KILLER IN A SPATE OF BAFFLING AIR DISASTERS.
Camera takes photo.
AND FOR THE FIRST TIME WE CAN REVEAL THE PHOTOGRAPH THAT SPARKED A SECRET NASA ENQUIRY.
WAS THIS THE PROOF THAT A HIGH ALTITUDE LIGHTNING STRIKE CAUSED THE CRASH OF THE SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA?
Title card:
MEGA-LIGHTNING
NARRATOR:
EACH DAY, THE EARTH IS SHAKEN BY 8 MILLION BOLTS OF THE SKY'S MOST POWERFUL FORCE: LIGHTNING.
Bolt of lightning.
NARRATOR:
ENERGY FROM ONE BOLT EXPLODES IN SPLIT SECOND, BUT COULD POWER A HOUSEHOLD FOR HALF A YEAR. AT ANY TIME, 1800 STORMS PUMMEL OUR PLANET. EACH ONE IS A GIANT BATTERY. INSIDE A STORM, WATER TURNS TO HAIL. FAILLING ICE CRASHES ON RISING DROPLET, CREATING STATIC ELECTRICITY. CHARGES OF UP TO 100 MILLION VOLTS BUILD UP. ARCS OF ELECTRICITY FIRE OUT. THIS IS LIGHTNING. MORE THAN 90 PERCENT OF ALL BOLTS FIRE WITHIN CLOUDS. BUT A HIGHLY CHARGED STORM WILL FIRE A CASCADE OF ELECTRICAL CHARGE TO EARTH, DRAWN TO THE HIGHEST POINT. A TREE OR A BLADE OF GRASS CAN TRIGGER LIGHTNING, OR EVEN A PERSON. EACH YEAR, 100O PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD DIE FROM DIRECT HIT. A LIGHTNING BOLT IS ONLY 3 CM WIDE. BUT AT 33,000 DEGREES CELCIUS, IT IS HOTTER THAN THE SURFACE OF THE SUN.
CGI lightning.
NARRATOR:
THIS HEAT EXPANDS THE SURROUNDING AIR, WHICH EXPLODES OUTWARDS AS THUNDER, THE SOUND OF LIGHTNING.
CGI lightning strike.
NARRATOR:
A LIGHTNING FLASH TRAVELS AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT; IT'S THUNDER TRAVELS MUCH SLOWER. THE SHORTER THE TIME BETWEEN THE FLASH AND THE THUNDER, THE CLOSER THE LIGHTNING BOLT. FEW CLOUD TO GROUND STRIKES ARE LONGER THAN THREE KILOMETRES. AND TEXTBOOKS SAID NO LIGHTNING COULD EXIST ABOVE THE CLOUDS.
Cloud to ground lighting with measuring rod.
Walt Lyons on balcony.
NARRATOR:
BUT THEN WEATHERMAN WALT LYONS AIMED HIS CAMERA ACROSS THE COLORADO PLAINS ON JULY 6, 1993.
Mountains through Walt's eye glasses
NARRATOR:
WHAT HE SAW OVERTURNED 200 YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC CERTAINTY IN AN INSTANT.
Green sprites images.
NARRATOR:
HE FILMED THESE VIDEO IMAGES. THEY SHOW LIGHTNING 80 KILOMETRES HIGH AND 40 KILOMETRES WIDE FIRING ABOVE THE CLOUDS. THEIR EXISTENCE HAD BEEN DISMISSED AS FANTASY. THEIR DISCOVERY SHEDS NEW LIGHT ON WHAT HAS BEEN CAUSING AIRPLANES TO FALL FROM THE SKY.
Sunrise.
Stuart Beecher lights a pipe.
NARRATOR:
THE DISCOVERY OF MEGA-LIGHTNING BEGAN WITH ORDINARY PEOPLE SEEING EXTRAORDINARY THINGS.
Stills of Beecher in name separated by light flashes.
NARRATOR:
IN 1969 STUART BEECHER WAS DEFENDING A MORTAR PIT OUTSIDE SAIGON IN SOUTH VIETNAM, WHEN A STORM BROKE.
Stuart Beecher:
There was this giant flash of lighting that reached from the ground through the base of the cloud, completed illuminated the cloud, and out the top from the ground, in this beautiful double helix pattern, that seemed to just go on forever. It was just like it was going straight into space.
Amateur photo of above cloud lightning.
STRAPLINE:
Photograph: Tudor Williams
NARRATOR:
THERE HAD EVEN BEEN PHOTOGRAPHS. THIS WAS TAKEN AT MT ISA IN AUSTRALIA, IN 1968. SCIENTISTS HAD IGNORED THE SIGHTINGS.
Skeet Vaughan flying.
NARRATOR:
SKEET VAUGHAN, A SENIOR NASA ENGINEER, MET A WITNESS WHO HAD SEEN GIANT LIGHTNING IN 1981. AS A TRAINED PILOT, VAUGHAN TOOK THE SIGHTING SERIOUSLY.
STRAPLINE:
Skeet Vaughan - NASA Engineer 1959-96
Skeet Vaughan:
I wrote an article in one of the flying magazines, and asked pilots to tell me if they'd seen any unusual lightning, or anything out of the ordinary. A number of pilots, about 19 of them, sent me letters telling me about this kind of a thing.
Pilot walks to letterbox.
NARRATOR:
PILOT LARRY PARTRIDGE WAS ONE OF THOSE WHO WROTE TO VAUGHN, REVEALING THAT HE'D SEEN GIANT LIGHTNING ABOVE THE CLOUDS GOING UP, AND NOT DOWN.
STRAPLINE:
Larry Partridge, pilot.
Larry Partridge:
All of a sudden, POW! Just a split second, this huge bolt of lightning came out of the top and disappeared into deep blue space. The captain turned to me and said, wide eyed, and said did you see that? And so I said yes, and so we turned and told the flight engineer, and he said, that's impossible. Lightning doesn't go up.
CGI blue jet.
Pilot Robin May flying.
STRAPLINE:
Robin May - pilot
Robin May:
A Strike of lightning appeared to come from the top of the cloud, went straight up, bright white, for ten or 15 thousand feet, then broke up into a lot of little fingers that went through the different colours of the spectrum, and disappeared off into space.
CGI of sprite to show what Larry sees through window of plane.
Skeet Vaughn:
But most of the pilots had said they'd never talk to people about this, they were somewhat reluctant to, in the case that they
4:26
Elton John - Rocket Man
Elton John - Rocket Man...
published: 22 Dec 2009
author: Background Noise
Elton John - Rocket Man
Elton John - Rocket Man
2:57
Jeremy Ball Deluxe Edit
Jeremy Ball Deluxe Edit. Filmed between 2010-2011.
Filmed By:
Jay Simmons
Jared Ball
Mik...
published: 22 Feb 2011
author: Tyler Deschaine
Jeremy Ball Deluxe Edit
Jeremy Ball Deluxe Edit. Filmed between 2010-2011.
Filmed By:
Jay Simmons
Jared Ball
Mike Lawless
Tyler Deschaine
Edited By:
Tyler Deschaine
Song:
Elton John - "The Cage"
Youtube results:
6:41
Peace One Day Celebration - Elton John - Tiny Dancer (Live)
From Peace One Day Concert - September 21st, 2012 - Wembley Arena Song #4/14...
published: 23 Sep 2012
author: bluemoves78
Peace One Day Celebration - Elton John - Tiny Dancer (Live)
From Peace One Day Concert - September 21st, 2012 - Wembley Arena Song #4/14
published: 23 Sep 2012
author: bluemoves78
views: 1564
3:05
Elton John - I'm Still Standing
Music video by Elton John performing I'm Still Standing. (C) 1983 Mercury Records Limited...
published: 01 Sep 2010
author: EltonJohnVEVO
Elton John - I'm Still Standing
Music video by Elton John performing I'm Still Standing. (C) 1983 Mercury Records Limited
published: 01 Sep 2010
author: EltonJohnVEVO
views: 2851061
4:53
Elton John Levon Live 1971
Elton John Levon Live 1971 I do not own this video...
published: 11 Oct 2010
author: katelibby88
Elton John Levon Live 1971
Elton John Levon Live 1971 I do not own this video
published: 11 Oct 2010
author: katelibby88
views: 121093
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| Sir Elton John CBE |
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|---|---|
 Elton John attending the premiere of The Union at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Reginald Kenneth Dwight |
| Born | (1947-03-25) 25 March 1947 (age 65) Pinner, Middlesex, England |
| Genres | Rock, R&B, pop rock, glam rock, soft rock |
| Occupations | Musician, singer-songwriter, record producer, composer |
| Instruments | Vocals, piano, keyboards, guitar |
| Years active | 1964–68 (Bluesology) 1969–present (Solo) |
| Labels | DJM, Uni, MCA, Geffen, Rocket/Island, Universal, Interscope, Mercury, UMG |
| Associated acts | Bernie Taupin, Tim Rice, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Kiki Dee, Billy Joel, George Michael, Eminem, Gladys Knight, Stevie Wonder, Dionne Warwick, Neil Sedaka |
| Website | eltonjohn.com |
Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947) is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor. He has worked with lyricist Bernie Taupin as his songwriter partner since 1967; they have collaborated on more than 30 albums to date.
In his four-decade career John has sold more than 250 million records, making him one of the most successful artists of all time.[1] His single "Candle in the Wind 1997" has sold over 33 million copies worldwide, and is the best selling single in Billboard history.[2] He has more than 50 Top 40 hits, including seven consecutive No. 1 US albums, 56 Top 40 singles, 16 Top 10, four No. 2 hits, and nine No. 1 hits. He has won six Grammy Awards, four Brit Awards, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Tony Award. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him Number 49 on its list of the 100 greatest artists of all time.[3]
John was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.[4] Having been named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1996, John received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for "services to music and charitable services" in 1998.[5]
He has been heavily involved in the fight against AIDS since the late 1980s.[6] In 1992, he established the Elton John AIDS Foundation and a year later began hosting the annual Academy Award Party, which has since become one of the most high-profile Oscar parties in the Hollywood film industry. Since its inception, the foundation has raised over $200 million.[7]
John entered into a civil partnership with David Furnish[8] on 21 December 2005 and continues to be a champion for LGBT social movements. In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked him as the most successful male solo artist on "The Billboard Hot 100 Top All-Time Artists" (third overall, behind only The Beatles and Madonna).[9]
Contents |
Life and career[link]
Early life[link]
John was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947, the eldest child of Stanley and only child of Sheila Eileen Dwight (née Harris)[10][11][12] and was raised in Pinner, Middlesex in a council house of his maternal grandparents. His parents did not marry until he was 6 years old, when the family moved to a nearby semi-detached house.[13][14][15] He was educated at Pinner Wood Junior School, Reddiford School and Pinner County Grammar School, until age 17, when he left just prior to his A Level examinations to pursue a career in the music industry.[16][17][18]
When John began to seriously consider a career in music, his father, who served as a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force, tried to steer him toward a more conventional career, such as banking.[16] John has stated that his wild stage costumes and performances were his way of letting go after such a restrictive childhood.[18] Both of John's parents were musically inclined, his father having been a trumpet player with the Bob Millar Band, a semi-professional big band that played at military dances.[18] The Dwights were keen record buyers, exposing John to the popular singers and musicians of the day, and John remembers being immediately hooked on rock and roll when his mother brought home records by Elvis Presley and Bill Haley & His Comets in 1956.[16][17]
John started playing the piano at the age of 3, and within a year, his mother heard him picking out Winifred Atwell's "The Skater's Waltz" by ear.[16][17] After performing at parties and family gatherings, at the age of 7 he took up formal piano lessons. He showed musical aptitude at school, including the ability to compose melodies, and gained some notoriety by playing like Jerry Lee Lewis at school functions. At the age of 11, he won a junior scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music. According to one of his instructors, John promptly played back, like a "gramophone record", a four-page piece by Handel that he heard for the first time.[17]
For the next five years he attended Saturday classes at the Academy in central London, and has stated that he enjoyed playing Chopin and Bach and singing in the choir during Saturday classes, but that he was not otherwise a diligent classical student.[17] "I kind of resented going to the Academy", he says. "I was one of those children who could just about get away without practising and still pass, scrape through the grades."[17] He even claims that he would sometimes skip classes and just ride around on the Tube.[17] However, several instructors have testified that he was a "model student", and during the last few years he was taking lessons from a private tutor in addition to his classes at the Academy.[17]
John's mother, though also strict with her son, was more vivacious than her husband, and something of a free spirit. With Stanley Dwight uninterested in his son and often physically absent, John was raised primarily by his mother and maternal grandmother. When his father was home, the Dwights would have terrible arguments that greatly distressed their son.[17] When John was 14, they divorced.[19] His mother then married a local painter, Fred Farebrother, a caring and supportive stepfather whom John affectionately referred to as "Derf", his first name in reverse.[17] They moved into flat No. 1A in an eight-unit apartment building called Frome Court, not far from both previous homes. It was there that John would write the songs that would launch his career as a rock star; he would live there until he had four albums simultaneously in the American Top 40.[20]
Pub pianist to staff songwriter (1962–1969)[link]
See also: Bluesology
At the age of 15, with the help of his mother and stepfather, Reginald Dwight became a weekend pianist at a nearby pub, the Northwood Hills Hotel, playing Thursday to Sunday nights for £35 a week and tips.[21][22] Known simply as "Reggie", he played a range of popular standards, including songs by Jim Reeves and Ray Charles, as well as songs he had written himself.[23][24] A stint with a short-lived group called the Corvettes rounded out his time.[17]
In 1964, Dwight and his friends formed a band called Bluesology. By day, he ran errands for a music publishing company; he divided his nights between solo gigs at a London hotel bar and working with Bluesology. By the mid-1960s, Bluesology was backing touring American soul and R&B musicians like The Isley Brothers, Major Lance, Billy Stewart, Doris Troy and Patti LaBelle and The Bluebelles. In 1966, the band became musician Long John Baldry's supporting band and played 16 times at The Marquee Club.[25]
After failing lead vocalist auditions for King Crimson and Gentle Giant, Dwight answered an advertisement in the New Musical Express placed by Ray Williams, then the A&R manager for Liberty Records.[26] At their first meeting, Williams gave Dwight a stack of lyrics written by Bernie Taupin, who had answered the same ad. Dwight wrote music for the lyrics, and then mailed it to Taupin, beginning a partnership that still continues[update]. When the two first met in 1967 they recorded what would become the first Elton John/Bernie Taupin song: "Scarecrow". Six months later Dwight was going by the name "Elton John" in homage to Bluesology saxophonist Elton Dean and Long John Baldry.[23]
The team of John and Taupin joined Dick James's DJM Records as staff songwriters in 1968, and over the next two years wrote material for various artists, like Roger Cook and Lulu.[27] Taupin would write a batch of lyrics in under an hour and give it to John, who would write music for them in half an hour, disposing of the lyrics if he couldn't come up with anything quickly.[27] For two years, they wrote easy-listening tunes for James to peddle to singers. Their early output included a contender for the British entry for the Eurovision Song Contest in 1969, for Lulu, called "Can't Go On (Living Without You)". It came sixth of six songs. In 1969, John provided piano for Roger Hodgson on his first released recording, the single "Mr. Boyd" by Argosy, a quartet that was completed by Caleb Quaye and Nigel Olsson.[28][29]
During this period, John was also a session musician for other artists including playing piano on The Hollies' "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" and singing backing vocals for The Scaffold.[30]
[edit] Debut album to Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1969–1973)
On the advice of music publisher Steve Brown, John and Taupin started writing more complex songs for John to record for DJM. The first was the single "I've Been Loving You" (1968), produced by Caleb Quaye, former Bluesology guitarist. In 1969, with Quaye, drummer Roger Pope, and bassist Tony Murray, John recorded another single, "Lady Samantha", and an album, Empty Sky.
For their follow-up album, Elton John, John and Taupin enlisted Gus Dudgeon as producer and Paul Buckmaster as musical arranger. Elton John was released in April 1970 on DJM Records/Pye Records in the UK and Uni Records in the USA, and established the formula for subsequent albums; gospel-chorded rockers and poignant ballads. The first single from the album, "Border Song", made into the US Top 100, peaking at Number 92. The second single "Your Song" made the US Top Ten, peaking at number eight and becoming John's first hit single as a singer. The album soon became his first hit album, reaching number four on the Billboard 200 album chart.[31]
Backed by ex-Spencer Davis Group drummer Nigel Olsson and bassist Dee Murray, John's first American concert took place at The Troubadour in Los Angeles in August 1970, and was a success.[32]
The concept album Tumbleweed Connection was released in October 1970, and reached the Top Ten on the Billboard 200. The live album 17-11-70 (11–17–70 in the US) was recorded at a live show aired from A&R Studios on WABC-FM in New York City. Sales of the live album were heavily hit in the US when an east coast bootlegger released the performance several weeks before the official album, including all 60 minutes of the aircast, not just the 40 minutes selected by Dick James Music.[33]
John and Taupin then wrote the soundtrack to the obscure film Friends and then the album Madman Across the Water, the latter reaching the Top Ten and producing the hit "Levon", while the soundtrack album produced the hit "Friends". In 1972, Davey Johnstone joined the Elton John Band on guitar and backing vocals. The band released Honky Chateau, which became John's first American number 1 album, spending five weeks at the top of the charts and spawning the hit singles "Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time)" (which is often compared to David Bowie's "Space Oddity") and "Honky Cat".[34]
The pop album Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player came out at the start of 1973, and produced the hits "Crocodile Rock" and "Daniel"; the former became his first US Billboard Hot 100 number one hit.[35] Both the album and "Crocodile Rock" were the first album and single, respectively on the consolidated MCA Records label in the USA, replacing MCA's other labels including Uni.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road gained instant critical acclaim and topped the chart on both sides of the Atlantic, remaining at Number 1 for two months.[36] It also temporarily established John as a glam rock star. It contained the number 1 hit "Bennie and the Jets", along with the popular and praised "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", "Candle in the Wind", "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting", "Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding" and "Grey Seal" (originally recorded and released in 1970 as the B-side to the UK-only single, "Rock and Roll Madonna"). There is also a VHS and DVD as part of the Classic Albums series, discussing the making, recording, and popularity of "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" through concert and home video footage including interviews.
[edit] Rocket Records to 21 at 33 (1974–1979)
John formed his own MCA-distributed label Rocket Records and signed acts to it – notably Neil Sedaka ("Bad Blood", on which he sang background vocals) and Kiki Dee – in which he took a personal interest. Instead of releasing his own records on Rocket, he opted for $8 million offered by MCA. When the contract was signed in 1974, MCA reportedly took out a $25 million insurance policy on John's life.[37]
In 1974 a collaboration with John Lennon took place, resulting in Elton John covering The Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and Lennon's "One Day at a Time", and in return Elton John and band being featured on Lennon's "Whatever Gets You thru the Night". In what would be Lennon's last live performance, the pair performed these two number 1 hits along with the Beatles classic "I Saw Her Standing There" at Madison Square Garden. Lennon made the rare stage appearance to keep the promise he made that he would appear on stage with Elton if "Whatever Gets You Thru The Night" became a number 1 single.[38]
Caribou was released in 1974, and although it reached number 1, it was widely considered[39] a lesser quality album. Reportedly recorded in a scant two weeks between live appearances, it featured "The Bitch Is Back"[39] and the lushly orchestrated "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me".[39]
Pete Townshend of The Who asked John to play a character called the "Local Lad" in the film of the rock opera Tommy, and to perform the song "Pinball Wizard". Drawing on power chords, John's version was recorded and used for the movie release in 1975 and the single came out in 1976 (1975 in the US). The song charted at number 7 in England. Bally subsequently released a "Captain Fantastic" pinball machine featuring an illustration of John in his movie guise.
In the 1975 autobiographical album Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, John revealed his previously ambiguous personality, with Taupin's lyrics describing their early days as struggling songwriters and musicians in London. The lyrics and accompanying photo booklet are infused with a specific sense of place and time that is otherwise rare in John's music. "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" was the hit single from this album and captured an early turning point in John's life.
The album's release signalled the end of the Elton John Band, as an unhappy and overworked John dismissed Olsson and Murray, two people who had contributed much of the band's signature sound and who had helped build his live following since the beginning.
According to Circus Magazine[40] a spokesman for John Reid (Connie Papas) said the decision was reached mutually via phone while Elton was in Australia promoting Tommy. She said there was no way John Reid could have fired them "because the band are not employed by John Reid, they're employed by Elton John."[40] She went on to say Nigel would be going back to his solo work and Dee would do session work "and possibly cut a solo album".[40]
Davey Johnstone and Ray Cooper were retained, Quaye and Roger Pope returned, and the new bassist was Kenny Passarelli; this rhythm section provided a heavier-sounding backbeat. James Newton-Howard joined to arrange in the studio and to play keyboards. John introduced the line-up before a crowd of 75,000 in London's Wembley Stadium.
The rock-oriented Rock of the Westies entered the US albums chart at number 1 like Captain Fantastic, a previously unattained feat. Elton John's stage wardrobe now included ostrich feathers, $5,000 spectacles that spelled his name in lights, and dressing up like the Statue of Liberty, Donald Duck, or Mozart, among others, at his concerts.[41][42]
To celebrate five years since he first appeared at the venue, in 1975 John played a two-night, four-show stand at The Troubadour. With seating limited to under 500 per show, the chance to purchase tickets was determined by a postcard lottery, with each winner allowed two tickets. Everyone who attended the performances received a hardbound "yearbook" of the band's history. That year he also played piano on Kevin Ayers' Sweet Deceiver, and was among the first and few white artists to appear on the black music series Soul Train on American television.[36] On 9 August 1975, John was named the outstanding rock personality of the year at the first annual Rock Music Awards at ceremonies held in Santa Monica, California.[43]
In 1976, the live album Here and There was released in May, followed by the Blue Moves album in October, which contained the single "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word". His biggest success in 1976 was "Don't Go Breaking My Heart", a duet with Kiki Dee that topped both the American and British charts. Finally, in an interview with Rolling Stone that year entitled "Elton's Frank Talk", John stated that he was bisexual.[44]
Besides being the most commercially successful period, 1970–1976 is also held in the most regard critically. Within only a three year span, between 1972 and 1975 John saw seven consecutive albums reach Number 1 in the charts, which had not been accomplished before.[36] Of the six Elton John albums to make the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in Rolling Stone'in 2003, all are from this period, with Goodbye Yellow Brick Road ranked highest at number 91; similarly, the three Elton John albums given five stars by Allmusic (Tumbleweed Connection, Honky Château, and Captain Fantastic) are all from this period too.
During the same period, John made a guest appearance on the popular Morecambe and Wise Show on the BBC. The two comics spent the episode pointing him in the direction of everywhere except the stage in order to prevent him singing.[45]
In November 1977 John announced he was retiring from performing; Taupin began collaborating with others. Now only producing one album a year, John issued A Single Man in 1978, employing a new lyricist, Gary Osborne; the album produced no singles that made the Top 20 in the US but the two singles from the album released in the UK, Part-Time Love and Song for Guy, both made the Top 20 in the UK with the latter reaching the Top 5. In 1979, accompanied by Ray Cooper, John became one of the first Western solo artists to tour the Soviet Union (as well as one of the first in Israel), then mounted a two-man comeback tour of the US in small halls. John returned to the singles chart with "Mama Can't Buy You Love" (number 9, 1979), a song originally rejected in 1977 by MCA before being released, recorded in 1977 with Philadelphia soul producer Thom Bell.[46] Elton reported that Thom Bell was the first person to give him voice lessons; Bell encouraged John to sing in a lower register. A disco-influenced album, Victim of Love, was poorly received. In 1979, John and Taupin reunited, though they did not collaborate on a full album until 1983's Too Low For Zero. 21 at 33, released the following year, was a significant career boost, aided by his biggest hit in four years, "Little Jeannie" (number 3 US), although the lyrics were written by Gary Osborne.
[edit] The 80s: The Fox to Sleeping with the Past (1981–1989)
His 1981 album, The Fox, was recorded in part during the same sessions as 21 at 33, and also included collaborations with Tom Robinson and Judie Tzuke. On 13 September 1980, John, with Olsson and Murray back in the Elton John Band, performed a free concert to an estimated 400,000 fans on The Great Lawn in Central Park in New York City. His 1982 hit "Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)", came from his Jump Up! album, his second under a new US recording contract with Geffen Records.
He married his close friend and sound engineer, Renate Blauel on Valentine's Day 1984 – the marriage lasted three years.[47] The Biography Channel Special detailed the loss of Elton's voice in 1986 while on tour in Australia. Shortly thereafter he underwent throat surgery, which permanently altered his voice. Several non-cancerous polyps were removed from his vocal cords, resulting in a change in his singing voice.[48] In 1987 he won a libel case against The Sun which published allegations of sex with rent boys.[49]
With original band members Johnstone, Murray and Olsson together again, John was able to return to the charts with the 1983 hit album Too Low for Zero, which included "I'm Still Standing" and "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues", the latter of which featured Stevie Wonder on harmonica and reached number 4 in the US, giving John his biggest hit there since "Little Jeannie". He placed hits in the US Top Ten throughout the 1980s – "Little Jeannie" (number 3, 1980), "Sad Songs (Say So Much)" (number 5, 1984), "Nikita" boosted by a mini-movie pop video directed by Ken Russell (number 7, 1986), a live orchestral version of "Candle in the Wind" (number 6, 1987), and "I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That" (number 2, 1988). His highest-charting single was a collaboration with Dionne Warwick, Gladys Knight, and Stevie Wonder on "That's What Friends Are For" (number 1, 1985); credited as Dionne and Friends, the song raised funds for AIDS research. His albums continued to sell, but of the six released in the latter half of the 1980s, only Reg Strikes Back (number 16, 1988) placed in the Top 20 in the United States.
In 1985, Elton John was one of the many performers at Live Aid held at Wembley Stadium.[50] John played "Bennie and the Jets" and "Rocket Man"; then "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" with Kiki Dee for the first time in years; and introduced his friend George Michael, still then of Wham!, to sing "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me".[50] He enlisted Michael to sing backing vocals on his single "Wrap Her Up", and also recruited teen idol Nik Kershaw as an instrumentalist on "Nikita". John also recorded material with Millie Jackson in 1985. In 1986, he played the piano on two tracks on the heavy metal band Saxon's album Rock the Nations.
In 1988, he performed five sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden,[51] giving him 26 for his career. Netting over $20 million, 2,000 items of John's memorabilia were auctioned off at Sotheby's in London.[52]
[edit] The 90s: "Sacrifice" to Aida (1990–1999)
In 1990, John finally achieved his first UK number one hit on his own, with "Sacrifice" (coupled with "Healing Hands") from the previous year's album Sleeping with the Past; it would stay at the top spot for six weeks.[53] The following year, John's "Basque" won the Grammy for Best Instrumental, and a guest concert appearance he had made on George Michael's cover of "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" was released as a single and topped the charts in both the US and UK.[54] At the 1991 Brit Awards in London, Elton John won the award for Best British Male.[55]
In 1992 he released the US number 8 album The One, featuring the hit song "The One".[56][57] John and Taupin then signed a music publishing deal with Warner/Chappell Music for an estimated $39 million over 12 years, giving them the largest cash advance in music publishing history.[58] In April 1992, John appeared at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert at Wembley Stadium, performing "The Show Must Go On" with the remaining members of Queen, and "Bohemian Rhapsody" with Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses and Queen.[59] In September, John performed "The One" at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards, and also closed the ceremony performing "November Rain" with Guns N' Roses.[60] The following year, he released Duets, a collaboration with 15 artists including Tammy Wynette and RuPaul. This also included a new collaboration with Kiki Dee, entitled "True Love", which reached the Top 10 of the UK charts.[61]
Along with Tim Rice, Elton John wrote the songs for the 1994 Disney animated film The Lion King, which became the 3rd highest-grossing animated feature of all time.[62] At the 67th Academy Awards ceremony, The Lion King provided three of the five nominees for the Academy Award for Best Song, which John won with "Can You Feel the Love Tonight".[63] Both that and "Circle of Life" became hit songs for John.[64][65] "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" would also win Elton John the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 37th Grammy Awards.[63] After the release of the The Lion King soundtrack, the album remained at the top of Billboard's charts for nine weeks. On 10 November 1999, the RIAA certified The Lion King "Diamond" for selling 15 million copies.[2]
In 1995 John released Made in England (number 3, 1995), which featured the single "Believe".[66] John performed "Believe" at the 1995 Brit Awards, and picked up the prize for Outstanding Contribution to Music.[67] A compilation called Love Songs was released in 1996.[68]
Early in 1997 John held a 50th birthday party, costumed as Louis XIV, for 500 friends. John also performed with the surviving members of Queen in Paris at the opening night (17 January 1997) of Le Presbytère N'a Rien Perdu De Son Charme Ni Le Jardin De Son Éclat, a work by French ballet legend Maurice Béjart which draws upon AIDS and the deaths of Freddie Mercury and the company's principal dancer Jorge Donn. Later in 1997, two close friends died: designer Gianni Versace was murdered; Diana, Princess of Wales died in a Paris car crash on 31 August.[69]
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In early September, John contacted his writing partner Bernie Taupin, asking him to revise the lyrics of his 1973 song "Candle in the Wind" to honour Diana, and Taupin rewrote the song accordingly.[70] On 6 September 1997, John performed "Candle in the Wind 1997" at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales in Westminster Abbey.[71] The song became the fastest, and biggest-selling single of all time, eventually selling over 33 million copies worldwide.[2][72][73] The best-selling single in UK Chart history, it sold 4.86 million copies in the UK.[74] The best-selling single in Billboard history, and the only single ever certified Diamond in the United States, the single sold over 11 million copies in the U.S.[75][76] The song proceeds of approximately £55 million were donated to the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund. It would win John the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 40th Grammy Awards ceremony in 1998.[73] John has publicly performed "Candle in the Wind 1997" only once, at Diana's funeral, vowing never to perform it again unless asked by Diana's sons.[77]
In the musical theatre world, in addition to a 1998 adaptation of The Lion King for Broadway, John also composed music for a Disney production of Aida in 1999 with lyricist Tim Rice, for which they received the Tony Award for Best Original Score at the 54th Tony Awards,[78] and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album at the 43rd Grammy Awards.[79][80] The musical was given its world premiere in the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta. It went on to Chicago and eventually Broadway. He also released a live compilation album called Elton John One Night Only – The Greatest Hits from the show he did at Madison Square Garden in New York City that same year.
2000 to present[link]
In 2000, John and Tim Rice teamed again to create songs for DreamWorks' animated film The Road to El Dorado. In August 2003, John scored his fifth UK number one single when "Are You Ready for Love" topped the UK Charts.[81] Returning again to musical theatre, John composed music for a West End Theatre production of Billy Elliot the Musical in 2005 with playwright Lee Hall. John's only theatrical project with Bernie Taupin so far is Lestat: The Musical, based on the Anne Rice vampire novels. However it was slammed by the critics and closed in May 2006 after 39 performances.[82]
John was named a Disney Legend for his numerous outstanding contributions to Disney's films and theatrical works on 9 October 2006, by The Walt Disney Company.[83] In 2006 he told Rolling Stone magazine that he plans for his next record to be in the R&B/hip-hop genre. "I want to work with Pharrell {Williams}, Timbaland, Snoop {Dogg}, Kanye {West}, Eminem and just see what happens."[84]
In March 2007 he performed at Madison Square Garden for a record breaking 60th time for his 60th birthday, the concert was broadcast live and a DVD recording was released as Elton 60 - Live at Madison Square Garden;[85] a greatest-hits compilation CD, Rocket Man – Number Ones, was released in 17 different versions worldwide, including a CD/DVD combo; and his back catalogue – almost 500 songs from 32 albums – became available for legal download.[86]
On 1 July 2007, Elton John appeared at the Concert for Diana held at Wembley Stadium in London, in honour of Diana, Princess of Wales, on what would have been her 46th birthday.[87] John opened the concert with "Your Song", and then closed the concert with his second performance, with "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting", "Tiny Dancer", and "Are You Ready For Love".[87]
In a September 2008 interview with GQ magazine, John said: "I’m going on the road again with Billy Joel again next year," referring to "Face to Face," a series of concerts featuring both musicians. The tour began in March and will continue for at least two more years.[88]
In October 2003, John announced that he had signed an exclusive agreement to perform 75 shows over three years at Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip. The show, entitled The Red Piano, was a multimedia concert featuring massive props and video montages created by David LaChapelle. Effectively, he and Celine Dion share performances at Caesars Palace throughout the year – while one performs, one rests. The first of these shows took place on 13 February 2004.[89] On 21 June 2008, he performed his 200th show in Caesars Palace. A DVD/CD package of The Red Piano was released through Best Buy in November 2008. A two year global tour was sandwiched between commitments in Las Vegas, Nevada, some of the venues of which were new to John. The Red Piano Tour closed in Las Vegas in April 2009.
Elton John performed a piano duet with Lady Gaga at the 52nd Grammy Awards.[90] On 6 June 2010, John performed at the fourth wedding of conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh for a reported US$1 million fee.[91] Eleven days later, and 17 years to the day after his last previous performance in Israel, he performed at the Ramat Gan Stadium; this was significant because of other then-recent cancellations by other performers in the fallout surrounding an Israeli raid on Gaza Flotilla the month before. In his introduction to that concert, Elton John noted he and other musicians should not "cherry-pick our conscience", in reference to Elvis Costello, who was to have performed in Israel two weeks after Elton did, but cancelled in the wake of the aforementioned raid, citing his [Costello's] conscience.[92][93]
John's latest studio album is entitled The Union and was released on 19 October 2010. John says his collaboration with American singer-songwriter and sideman Leon Russell marks a new chapter in his recording career, saying: "I don't have to make pop records any more."[94]
Elton John began his new show "The Million Dollar Piano" at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas on 28 September 2011.[95] John will be performing the show at Caesars for the next three years. John performed his 3000th concert on Saturday 8 October 2011 at Caesars.[96][97] In 2011, John performed vocals on Snowed in at Wheeler Street with Kate Bush for her 50 Words for Snow album.[98]
It was announced in March 2012 that Elton had recently completed work on his thirty-first album entitled The Diving Board. The album was produced by T-Bone Burnett and is set for release in the fall of 2012.[99][100] The album's release will be delayed until February 2013 for promotional reasons.[101]
Artistry[link]
Songwriting[link]
John has written with his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin since 1967 when he answered an advertisement for talent placed in the popular UK music publication, New Musical Express, by Liberty records A&R man Ray Williams.[102] The pair have collaborated on more than 30 albums to date.[103]
The 1991 film documentary Two Rooms described the writing style that John and Taupin use, which involves Taupin writing the lyrics on his own, and John then putting them to music, with the two never in the same room during the process. Taupin would write a set of lyrics, then mail them to John, wherever he was in the world, who would then lay down the music, arrange it, and record.[104] John is a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA).[105]
Music style[link]
John's voice was once classed as tenor; it is now baritone.[17] His piano playing is influenced by classical and gospel music.[106] He used Paul Buckmaster to arrange the music on his studio albums during the 1970s.[107]
Personal life[link]
Family[link]
In the late 1960s, John was engaged to be married to his first lover, secretary Linda Woodrow, who is mentioned in the song "Someone Saved My Life Tonight".[108][109] He married German recording engineer Renate Blauel on 14 February 1984, in Darling Point, Sydney, with speculation that the marriage was a cover for his homosexuality. John had come out as bisexual in a 1976 interview with Rolling Stone,[108][109] but after his divorce from Blauel in 1988 he told the magazine that he was "comfortable" being gay.[110]
In 1993, John began a relationship with David Furnish, a former advertising executive and now filmmaker. John and Furnish entered a civil partnership on 21 December 2005. They held a low-key ceremony at the Windsor Guildhall, followed by a lavish party at their Berkshire mansion,[111] thought to have cost £1 million.[112] Their son, Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John, was born to a surrogate mother on 25 December 2010 in California.[113][114] John and Furnish chose Lady Gaga, magazine editor Ingrid Sischy, and Sichy's partner Sandy Brant as Zachary's godmothers.[115]
In September 2009, John announced his intention to adopt a 14-month-old boy, Lev, from an AIDS orphanage in Ukraine, but he was denied due to his age and marital status.[116] Furnish stated they would continue to financially support Lev and his brother and would campaign for a change in Ukrainian law.[117] John has ten known godchildren, including Sean Lennon, David and Victoria Beckham's sons Brooklyn and Romeo, Elizabeth Hurley's son Damian Charles, and the daughter of Seymour Stein.[118][119][120]
Wealth[link]
In April 2009, the Sunday Times Rich List estimated John's wealth to be £175 million (US$265 million), and ranked him as the 322nd richest person in Britain.[121] John was estimated to have a fortune of £195 million in the Sunday Times Rich List of 2011, making him one of the 10 richest people in the British music industry.[122] Aside from his main home "Woodside" in Old Windsor, Berkshire, John owns residences in Atlanta, Nice, London's Holland Park, and Venice. John is an art collector, and is believed to have one of the largest private photography collections in the world.[123]
In 2000, John admitted to spending £30 million in just under two years—an average of £1.5 million a month. Between January 1996 and September 1997, he spent more than £9.6m on property and £293,000 on flowers.[124] In June 2001 John sold 20 of his cars at Christie's, saying he didn't get the chance to drive them because he was out of the country so often.[125] The sale, which included a 1993 Jaguar XJ220, the most expensive at £234,750, and several Ferraris, Rolls-Royces, and Bentleys, raised nearly £2 million.[126] In 2003, John sold the contents of his Holland Park home—expected to fetch £800,000 at Sotheby's—in a bid to create more room for his collection of contemporary art which includes many works of art by Young British Artists such as Sam Taylor-Wood and Tracy Emin.[127] Every year since 2004, John has opened a shop called "Elton's Closet" in which he sells his second-hand clothes.[128]
Other[link]
Throughout his career, John has battled addictions to alcohol and cocaine. By 1975, the pressures of stardom had begun to take a serious toll on him. During "Elton Week" in Los Angeles that year, John suffered a drug overdose.[129] He also battled the eating disorder bulimia. In a CNN interview with Larry King in 2002, King asked if John knew of Diana, Princess of Wales' eating disorder. John replied, "Yes, I did. We were both bulimic."[130]
A longtime tennis enthusiast, John wrote the song "Philadelphia Freedom" in tribute to long-time friend Billie Jean King and her World Team Tennis franchise of the same name. John and King also co-host an annual pro-am event to benefit AIDS charities, most notably John's own Elton John AIDS Foundation, for which King is a chairwoman. John was coached by Donald Watt, who often toured with him during the 1980s & early 90's. Watt was a coach at David Lloyd Leisure and then operations director for it, then Next Generation Clubs[131] (now merged with David Lloyd). Watt was also close friends with Tim Henman,[132] and also David and John Lloyd. John, who maintains a part-time residence in Atlanta, Georgia, became a fan of the Atlanta Braves baseball team when he moved there in 1991.[133]
Watford Football Club[link]
John became chairman and director of Watford Football Club in 1976, appointing Graham Taylor as manager and investing large sums of money as the club rose three divisions into the First Division.[134] The pinnacle of the club's success was finishing runners up in the First Division in 1983 and reaching the FA Cup Final a year later. He sold the club to Jack Petchey in 1987, but remained their life-long president.[135] In 1997 he re-purchased the club from Petchey and once again became chairman. He stepped down in 2002 when the club needed a full-time chairman although he continued as president of the club.[135] Although no longer the majority shareholder, he still holds a significant financial interest. In June 2005 he held a concert at Watford's Vicarage Road ground, donating the funds to the club, and another concert in May 2010.[135] For a time[when?] he was also a part-owner of the Los Angeles Aztecs of the North American Soccer League.
AIDS Foundation[link]
Main article: Elton John AIDS Foundation
John has been associated with AIDS charities since the deaths of his friends Ryan White and Freddie Mercury, raising large amounts of money and using his public profile to raise awareness of the disease. For example, in 1986 he joined with Dionne Warwick, Gladys Knight, and Stevie Wonder to record the single "That's What Friends Are For", with all profits being donated to the American Foundation for AIDS Research. The song won John and the others the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal (as well as Song of the Year for its writers, Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager). In April 1990, John performed "Skyline Pigeon" at the funeral of White, a teenage haemophiliac he had befriended.
John founded the Elton John AIDS Foundation in 1992 as a charity to fund programmes for HIV/AIDS prevention, for the elimination of prejudice and discrimination against HIV/AIDS-affected individuals, and for providing services to people living with or at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS. This cause continues to be one of his personal passions. In early 2006, John donated the smaller of two bright-red Yamaha pianos from his Las Vegas, Nevada show to auction on eBay to raise public awareness and funds for the foundation.
To raise money for his AIDS charity, John hosts annually a glamorous White Tie & Tiara Ball, to which many famous celebrities are invited. On 28 June 2007, the 9th annual White Tie & Tiara Ball took place. The menu consisted of a truffle soufflé followed by Surf and Turf (filet mignon with Maine lobster tail) and a giant Knickerbocker glory ice cream. An auction followed the dinner held by Stephen Fry. A Rolls Royce ‘Phantom’ drophead coupe and a piece of Tracey Emin's artwork both raised £800,000 for the charity fund, with the total amount raised reaching £3.5 million.[136] Later on in the event, John sang "Delilah" with Tom Jones and "Big Spender" with Shirley Bassey.[137] Tickets for the Ball cost £1,000 a head. The event raised £4.6 million for his AIDS Foundation in 2006.[138]
Activism[link]
On 1 April 2010, John joined Cyndi Lauper in the launch of her Give a Damn campaign to bring a wider awareness of discrimination of the LGBT community as part of her True Colors Fund.[139] In the advertisement, John states: "Imagine walking down the street and wondering if this is the day you'll get beaten up, or even killed, simply because of who you are".[139] The campaign is to bring straight people to stand up with the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered community and stop the discrimination. Other names included in the campaign are Whoopi Goldberg, Jason Mraz, Judith Light, Cynthia Nixon, Kim Kardashian, Clay Aiken, Sharon Osbourne, Kelly Osbourne, and Anna Paquin.[139]
He is an occasional columnist in The Guardian.[140]
Honours and awards[link]
John was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility in 1994. He and Bernie Taupin had previously been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1992. John was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1995.[141] For his charitable work, John was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II on 24 February 1998. In October 1975, John became the 1,662nd person to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[142]
He became a recipient of a Kennedy Center Honor in 2004, and a Disney Legends Award in 2006. In 2010, Elton John was awarded with the PRS for Music Heritage Award, which was erected, on The Namaste Lounge Pub in Watford, where Elton performed his first ever gig.[143]
Music awards include the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" from The Lion King (award shared with Tim Rice); the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song in 1994 for "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" from The Lion King (award shared with Tim Rice); and the Tony Award for Best Original Score in 2000 for Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida (award shared with Tim Rice).
John has six Grammy Awards:
- 1987: Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for "That's What Friends Are For", performed by Dionne Warwick & Friends (award shared with Dionne Warwick, Gladys Knight & Stevie Wonder)
- 1991: Best Instrumental Composition for "Basque", performed by James Galway
- 1994: Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Can You Feel The Love Tonight"
- 1997: Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Candle In The Wind" 1997
- 1999: Grammy Legend Award
- 2001: Best Musical Show Album for Elton John & Tim Rice's Aida (award shared with Guy Babylon, Paul Bogaev & Chris Montan (producers), Tim Rice (lyricist) and the original Broadway cast with Heather Headley, Adam Pascal, and Sherie Rene Scott)
Elton John Band[link]
Elton John Band members
- Current members
- Elton John – lead vocals, piano
- Nigel Olsson – drums, vocals
- Bob Birch – bass guitar, vocals
- Davey Johnstone – guitar, musical director, vocals
- John Mahon – percussion, vocals
- Kim Bullard – keyboards
- Tata Vega – lead backing vocals
- Rose Stone – backing vocals
- Lisa Stone – backing vocals
- Jean Witherspoon – backing vocals
- Ray Cooper – percussion
- Previous band members
- Guy Babylon – keyboards
- Tom Costello – drums
- David Hentschel – synthesizer
- Tony Murray – bass
- Roger Pope – drums, percussion
- Fred Mandel – keyboards, guitars
- Dee Murray – bass guitar, vocals
- James Newton Howard – conductor, keyboards, orchestrations
- Caleb Quaye – guitar, drums, percussion
- Kenny Passarelli – bass, background vocals
- Charlie Morgan – drums
- John Jorgenson – guitars, saxophone, pedal steel, mandolin, vocals
- David Paton – bass guitar, vocals
- Other notable contributors and guests
- Leon Russell – piano, vocals
- Gus Dudgeon – production
- Paul Buckmaster – orchestrations
- Lesley Duncan – acoustic guitar, vocals, background vocals
- Dusty Springfield – background vocals
- Rick Wakeman – organ
- Jean-Luc Ponty – electric violin
- Luther Vandross – vocals
- Kiki Dee – background vocals
- Bruce Johnston – vocals, background vocals
- Carl Wilson – vocals, background vocals
- Toni Tennille – vocals, background vocals
- Tower of Power – horns
- John Lennon (credited as Dr. Winston O' Boogie) – guitar
- Labelle – vocals, background vocals
- David Crosby – vocals, background vocals
- Graham Nash – vocals, background vocals
- London Symphony Orchestra
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
- Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- David Sanborn – saxophone
- David Paich – organ
- Jeff Porcaro – drums
- Pete Townshend – guitar
- Stevie Wonder – harmonica
- John Deacon – bass
- Nik Kershaw – electric guitar
- Freddie Hubbard – trumpet, flugelhorn
- Eric Clapton – vocals
- David Gilmour – guitar
- k.d. Lang – vocals
- P.M. Dawn – vocals
- Little Richard – vocals
- Don Henley – vocals
- Chris Rea – vocals
- Tammy Wynette – vocals
- Gladys Knight – vocals
- Paul Young – vocals
- Bonnie Raitt – vocals
- Leonard Cohen – vocals
- George Michael – vocals
- Deon Estus – bass
- Paul Carrack – organ
- Ricky Molina – drums, percussion
Since 1970, John's band, of which he is the pianist and lead singer, has been known as the Elton John Band.[144][145] The band has had multiple line-up changes, but Nigel Olsson, Davey Johnstone, and Ray Cooper have been members (albeit non-consecutively) since 1970 (Olsson) and 1972 (Johnstone and Cooper). Ray Cooper is on and off with the Elton John Band because he works with other musicians as a session and road-tour percussionist. Furthermore, John has also used a number of session musicians in the time of his career.
Discography[link]
Main article: Elton John discography
- Studio albums
- Empty Sky (1969)
- Elton John (1970)
- Tumbleweed Connection (1970)
- Madman Across the Water (1971)
- Honky Château (1972)
- Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player (1973)
- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)
- Caribou (1974)
- Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975)
- Rock of the Westies (1975)
- Blue Moves (1976)
- A Single Man (1978)
- Victim of Love (1979)
- 21 at 33 (1980)
- The Fox (1981)
- Jump Up! (1982)
- Too Low for Zero (1983)
- Breaking Hearts (1984)
- Ice on Fire (1985)
- Leather Jackets (1986)
- Reg Strikes Back (1988)
- Sleeping with the Past (1989)
- The One (1992)
- Duets (1993)
- Made in England (1995)
- The Big Picture (1997)
- Songs from the West Coast (2001)
- Peachtree Road (2004)
- The Captain & the Kid (2006)
- The Union (with Leon Russell) (2010)
- The Diving Board (2013)
- Soundtracks, scores & theatre albums
- Friends (1971)
- The Lion King (1994)
- Aida (1998)
- The Muse (1999)
- The Road to El Dorado (2000)
- Billy Elliot (2005)
- Lestat (2005)
- Gnomeo & Juliet (2011)
- Films
- Elton John: Me, Myself & I (2007) autobiography as himself
- The Country Bears, US (2002) as himself
- Spice World, UK (1997) as himself
- Tommy, UK (1975) as Pinball Wizard
- Born to Boogie, US playing as himself with Marc Bolan and Ringo Starr
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- Bibliography
- Goodall, Nigel. Elton John: A Visual Documentary, Omnibus Press, 1993. ISBN 0-7119-3078-3
- Rosenthal, Elizabeth. His Song: The Musical Journey of Elton John, Billboard Books, 2001. ISBN 0-8230-8892-8
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| Name | John, Elton |
| Alternative names | Reginald Kenneth Dwight |
| Short description | English musician |
| Date of birth | 25 March 1947 |
| Place of birth | Pinner, Middlesex, UK |
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