Adopted name of Reginald Kenneth Dwight (1947-)
English pop singer, pianist, and composer. His best-known album, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 1973, includes the hit ‘Bennie and the Jets’. Among his many other highly successful songs are ‘Rocket Man’, ‘Crocodile Rock’, and ‘Daniel’ all 1972, ‘Candle in the Wind’ 1973, ‘Pinball Wizard’ 1975, ‘Blue Eyes’ 1982, ‘Nikita’ 1985 and ‘Sacrifice’ 1989, the latter from his album Sleeping with the Past. His output is prolific and his hits have continued intermittently into the 1990s
He enjoyed his greatest popularity, especially in the US, from his second album, Elton John 1970 to Blue Moves 1976, working exclusively with the lyricist Bernie Taupin (1950– )