Elton John Revisits ’70s Heyday on ‘Classic Album Selection’ Box Set
The ’70s were a particularly great period for Elton John, and the musician will give fans a chance to reflect on the era by offering up a new box set.
The ’70s were a particularly great period for Elton John, and the musician will give fans a chance to reflect on the era by offering up a new box set.
Despite a busy schedule of writing, touring and philanthropy, Elton John seems to be enjoying his newfound status as a father. On Christmas Day 2010, he and longtime partner David Furnish became parents to a boy, Zachary, through a surrogate mother. Now, John is interested in adopting a second child, according to a new interview.
Queen Elizabeth II has been the monarch of Britain for almost as long as Paul McCartney and Elton John have been alive. In fact, the Queen celebrates 60 years on the throne this year. Her fellow Brits are coming together to honor those six decades as the figurehead of the country at a bash to be held in front of her Buckingham Palace digs. Sir Paul and Sir Elton are both set to perform and serve as the event’s headliners.
Elton John is a king holding court over a crowd of jokers and jesters in an upcoming Super Bowl commercial for Pepsi. He and ‘X Factor‘ winner Melanie Amaro recently filmed the spot, and shared behind the scenes footage of the ad.
Saturday night may be alright for fighting, but apparently Sunday will do in a pinch.
If you watched the Golden Globes last night and saw Madonna collect the award for Best Original Song, you may have noticed the cameras cutting to a dour Elton John — and that nasty expression on his face wasn’t your imagination.
Justin Timberlake may be “burning out his fuse out there alone” if Elton John has anything to say about it. With plans for a biopic in the works, Sir Elton has declared the one time teen star Timberlake as his top choice to play him.
Elton John put on a show as host of Saturday Night Live this weekend, marking only his second appearance on the long running sketch comedy show.
In his opening monologue, John proclaimed Òthe bitch is backÓ before launching into a series of jokes about his new baby boy, whom John said was born with Òten fingers, ten toes, and $400 million dollars.Ó John also joked about Lady Gaga being his sonÕs (named Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John) godmother.
As for the actual sketches, many seemed to rely on jokes about JohnÕs British roots, his flamboyant stage persona and his sexuality, including one sketch titled ÔThe Old West,Õ in which John played, well, a flamboyant cowboy. (Really, can you blame the writers? WeÕre still trying to figure out why John hosted in the first place.)
Elton John has such an enormous CD collection that he actually hired a librarian to over see his massive collection.
Elton told the Daily Star “I had a new room built with industrial holders on rollers to keep them in, I have a librarian to look after them".
Filmmaker Cameron Crowe has been working on a documentary, called 'The Union', it's described as a personal look into Elton John, and his musical hero, Leon Russell.
The film follows the two as they work on a album with legendary producer T-Bone Burnett, they all started working on this project in 2009.
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Elton John is giving Billy Joel some tough love in the new issue of Rolling Stone. I hope that he picked up the phone and called Billy before he brought this up to the world.