“Solzhenitsyn had written a book called Candle In The Wind.” That volume, described as “a semi-autobiographical drama of ideas,” was published in 1973. “I had always loved the phrase,” Taupin said of the title. I can't sit back and blindly ignore it and I won't.‘What a great way of describing someone’s life’ I can't just sit back - it's not in my nature any more. I'm going to fight for them whether I do it silently behind the scenes or so vocally that I get locked up. Dave and I as a couple seem to be the acceptable face of gayness, and that's great. It was the same when Dave and I had our civil union - I was expecting the odd flour bomb and there wasn't. I don't know what it is with me, people treat me very reverently. People come to me and I'm a bit like the Queen Mother.
There was a big march in London when Britain decided to join the war against Iraq and Tony Blair is on the record as saying 'the people who march today will have blood on their hands'. You have to get out there and be seen to be vocal, and you've got to do it time and time again.
They seem to do their protesting on-line and that's not good enough. If John Lennon were alive today he'd be leading it with a vengeance. Musicians got through to people by getting out there and doing peace concerts but we don't seem to do them any more. Instead of more violence why isn't there a meeting of religious leaders? It's like the peace movement in the Sixties. The world is near escalating to World War Three and where are the leaders of each religion? Why aren't they having a conclave? Why aren't they coming together? I said this after 9/11 and people thought I was nuts. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate. From my point of view I would ban religion completely. But there are so many people I know who are gay and love their religion. Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. I think religion has always tried to turn hatred towards gay people. The four concerts featured are the 1973 Christmas show at the Hammersmith Odeon, London the 1975 concert at Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles the 2012 Diamond Jubilee concert at Buckingham Palace, London and a 2018 concert at Madison Square Garden, New York City. Two of the stamps are nondenominated, first class stamps (70 pence) the others are denominated £1.55, the rate for letters to Europe weighing up to 20 grams. The four other stamps were issued on a single souvenir sheet and feature pictures from various concerts. Price on day of issue for each stamp was 70 pence. The album covers featured are Honky Tonk Chateau (1972), Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973), Caribou (1974) Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975), Sleeping With The Past (1989), The One (1992), Made In England (1995), and Songs From The West Coast (2002). Eight nondenominated, first class stamps feature the picture on the sleeve of one of his albums. Honored by a set of 12 commemorative postage stamps issued by Royal Mail (the British post office) on 3 September 2019. He is well known as a campaigner for AIDS research and he keeps his finger on the pulse of modern music, enjoying artists such as Eminem, Radiohead, Coldplay and Robbie Williams. In the 1970s and 1980s, he suffered from drug and alcohol addiction and bulimia but came through it. The marriage lasted four years before he finally came to terms with the fact that he was actually homosexual. In the early 1970s, he recorded the concept album "Tumbleweed Connection." He became the most successful pop artist of the 1970s, and he has survived many different pop fads including punk, the New Romantics and Britpop to remain one of Britain's most internationally acclaimed musicians.Įlton John announced he was a bisexual in 1976, and in 1984, he married Renate Blauel. The duo wrote songs for Lulu and Roger Cook. Dwight teamed up with lyricist Bernie Taupin and changed his name to Elton John (merging the names of saxophonist Elton Dean and Long John Baldry). He later auditioned (unsuccessfully) as lead singer for the progressive rock bands King Crimson and Gentle Giant. At the age of 11, he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music. Born 25 March, 1947, as Reginald Kenneth Dwight, he started to play the piano at the early age of four. Sir Elton John is one of pop music's great survivors.
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