Saturday, March 25, 2017

12 Trivia Facts About Elton John



  1. Elton John was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947, in Pinner, Middlesex, the eldest child of Stanley Dwight and only child of Sheila Eileen (née Harris), and was raised in a council house of his maternal grandparents, in Pinner.
  2. At age 11, he entered the Royal Academy of Music, but quit just before graduation to pursue a rock career.
  3. His parents, Sheila and Stanley Dwight, divorced when he was young. His mother then married Fred Farebrother, whom Elton affectionately dubbed "Derf".
  4. Changed his name legally to Elton Hercules John. He chose the middle name "Hercules" not after the hero of mythology, but after the horse named Hercules on the British sitcom Steptoe and Son (1962).
  5. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 1996 and awarded Knighthood of the British Empire in the 1998 Queen's New Years Honors List for his services to music and fundraising for AIDS charities.
  6. 1992: Decided that all profits from his singles would be donated to AIDS charities and formed the Elton John AIDS Foundation. The foundation has become one of the world's largest nonprofit AIDS organizations.
  7. Dwight changed his name to Elton John to honor Bluesology saxophonist Elton Dean and Long John Baldry.
  8. Started wearing glasses to copy one of his idols, Buddy Holly. After a while, his eyes adjusted to the lenses and he's worn glasses ever since.
  9. In 2010, John told BBC Radio that he owned 250,000 pairs of glasses. “I don’t have a iPod or a mobile phone or a computer. I do have a quarter of a million pairs of glasses but I don’t even have a mobile phone. If people want to get hold of me they can. The Internet doesn’t interest me either apart from getting sports scores.”
  10. Auditioned for the lead vocalist spot in the band King Crimson but was turned down.
  11. He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6915 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on October 23, 1975.
  12. Reformed drug addict, alcoholic and bulimic. 

References:

http://www.eltonjohn.com/
http://lancasteronline.com/features/entertainment/tuesday-trivia-things-to-know-about-elton-john/article_19a535c2-b392-11e3-838b-001a4bcf6878.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elton_John
http://m.imdb.com/name/nm0005056/trivia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7j1uogI02A

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