Sir Elton Hercules John, the English rock singer, the composer, the pianist, the knight-bachelor (1995) and the gentleman of an award of British Empire (CBE, the commodore, 1997).

Throughout the almost 40 year old career Elton John has sold more than 250 million plates. More than 50 its singles entered in Top 40. It one of the most successful pop executors of all times.

Elton John was one of the most commercially successful executors of a rock music of 1970th years: 7 its albums took the first places in the American charts, 23 compositions entered into American Top 40, 16 rose in first ten and 6 on the first place. One of them, Candle in the Wind (dedication to Princess Diana) has dispersed in 37-million circulation and became a single-best seller of all times. Elton John has influenced development of popular music and has brought the huge contribution to piano distribution to a rock n roll. The basic lines of creativity of Elton John the melodic talent, the rich tenor, vigorous orchestral arrangements, bright scenic image and theatrical skill.

In the early nineties Elton John has been compelled to struggle with a drug dependence, depression and a bulimia. Nevertheless, it continues public work, in particular, in a field of struggle against AIDS which has begun in the late eighties. It has been entered into the Hall of glory of a rock n roll in 1994, has been devoted in knights in 1998 and till now remains to one of the most successful singers in England. Hide review