![]() John continued to be remarkably successful, scoring a top 40 single every year through until 1996. His early work dabbles in singer-songwriter and country, but by the time of 1973’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road he’d swapped intimacy for glam. John’s contract required two albums per year, and he was remarkably prolific through the 1970s. The debut was unsuccessful but 1970’s Elton John, and its top ten transatlantic hit ‘Your Song’, signalled the beginning of years of commercial domination. At first the pair wrote songs for other artists, including Lulu, then John recorded his solo debut, Empty Sky, in 1969. In 1967 he began a songwriting partnership with lyricist Bernie Taupin. He learned the piano as a child and started his career in the R&B band Bluesology as a teenager. ![]() Sir Elton Hercules John was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight, in London.
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