Oh, but he’s weird and he’s wonderful. Elton John has spent 50 glorious years building one of the strangest songbooks in music – there isn’t a pop trend this genius hasn’t pillaged at least once. He’s ...

Reginald Kenneth Dwight was a 20-year-old session musician when he applied for a job at a London record label, and was paired up with a lyricist named Bernie Taupin in 1967. Dwight adopted the stage ...