Elton John Tickets : As A Musician Elton John Will Not Be Forgotten

. On the occasion of the release of their duet album “The Union”, Elton John and Leon Russell deliver their stories time registration and the history of their collaboration through a six-episode web series to discover all week on The Figaro.

Elton John’s voice was originally a tenor, it is now a baritone. His piano playing is influenced by classical and gospel music. He used Paul Buckmaster to arrange the music on his studio albums during the 1970s.

John was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947 as the only child of Stanley and Sheila Eileen (nee Harris) Dwight and was raised in Pinner, Middlesex in a council house of his maternal grandparents.

His parents did not marry until he was 6 years old, when the family moved to a nearby semi-detached house. He was educated at Pinner Wood Junior School, Reddiford School and Pinner County Grammar School, until age 17, when he left just prior to his GCE A Level examinations to pursue a career in the music industry.

When John began to seriously consider a career in music, his father, who served as a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force, tried to steer him toward a more conventional career, such as banking. John has stated that his wild stage costumes and performances were his way of letting go after such a restrictive childhood.

Both of John’s parents were musically inclined, his father having been a trumpet player with the Bob Millar Band, a semi-professional big band that played at military dances. The Dwights were keen record buyers, exposing John to the popular singers and musicians of the day, and John remembers being immediately hooked on rock and roll when his mother brought home records by Elvis Presley and Bill Haley & His Comets in 1956.

John started playing the piano at the age of 3, and within a year, his mother heard him picking out Winifred Atwell’s “The Skater’s Waltz” by ear.

After performing at parties and family gatherings, at the age of 7 he took up formal piano lessons. He showed musical aptitude at school, including the ability to compose melodies, and gained some notoriety by playing like Jerry Lee Lewis at school functions. At the age of 11, he won a junior scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music.

According to one of his instructors, John promptly played back, like a “gramophone record”, a four-page piece by Handel that he heard for the first time.

For the next five years he attended Saturday classes at the Academy in central London, and has stated that he enjoyed playing Chopin and Bach and singing in the choir during Saturday classes, but that he was not otherwise a diligent classical student.

I kind of resented going to the Academy, he says. I was one of those children who could just about get away without practicing and still pass, scrape through the grades. He even claims that he would sometimes skip classes and just ride around on the Tube.

However, several instructors have testified that he was a “model student”, and during the last few years he was taking lessons from a private tutor in addition to his classes at the Academy.

John’s mother, though also strict with her son, was more vivacious than her husband, and something of a free spirit. With Stanley Dwight uninterested in his son and often physically absent, John was raised primarily by his mother and maternal grandmother. When his father was home, the Dwights would have terrible arguments that greatly distressed their son.

John was 15 when they divorced. His mother then married a local painter, Fred Farebrother, a caring and supportive stepfather who John affectionately referred to as “Derf”, his first name in reverse.They moved into flat No. 1A in an eight-unit apartment building called Frome Court, not far from both previous homes. It was there that John would write the songs that would launch his career as a rock star; he would live there until he had four albums simultaneously in the American Top 40.

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When you get older cest nice to appreciate the people who were giants of our time and whose music continues. It Necris not songs for himself, must not close our eyes, nobody wants to be forgotten.For my part I just want to continue to make albums like this. As Bob Dylan did. It is still high reward albums, Neil Young, too.I’m not the last group of fashion. I just want to start making records that fit my style of piano player and what I’ve wanted to do.