Elton John is both a well-known pop musician and a well-known rock and roll artist. During his stage performances in the mid-1970s, he was imitated to varying degrees by other actors.

John, whose real name is Riginald Kenneth Dwight, was born on March 25, 1947, in the suburbs of London. He began learning piano at the age of 4 and has always lived an ordinary family and school life. He once studied at the London Conservatory of Music.

In 1958 he won the Amateur Bachelor's Award at the Royal Academy of Music Competition. By the early 1960s, his academic excellence had been replaced by rock music.

Blues was the musical form he first fell in love with, and in 1961 he became a new member of the R&B band Blues Solo Band, playing in clubs in London and accompanying some American soul singers.

In 1965, the band had begun to transform from an amateur organization to a performance group funded by various funds in the United States.

The R&B line-up touring the UK included Major Lance, Patti LaBelle, The Ink Spots and others.

Dwight changed his name to Elton John in 1967, after saxophonist Elton Dean and John Baddeley. With this stage name, he was ready for great development.

In the same year, John agreed to be responsible for song advertising for a British music public trading company, which was arranged by Liberty Records.

At that time he was partnered with an equally unknown lyricist named Bernie Topping (born in Lincolnshire on May 22, 1950).

After being fired from Liberty Records, the two began performing together with Dick James, a music publisher who had worked for The Beatles.

By 1968, they signed with Phillips Records and released John's first single "I've Been Loving You Too Long", but it failed to hit the charts.

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"Lady Samatha" released in 1969 also suffered the same fate, but it attracted the interest of British DJM.

So the album "Empty Sky" came out in the UK. Although the sales were still poor, the songs in it were played repeatedly on the radio.

Ten days later, the recording of "Elton John" was completed. The British record company had little interest in it, but it attracted the attention of the American MCA company.

Thus, at the beginning of the 1970s, Elton John became famous, and this album quickly became popular in the United States, ranking on the charts and winning critical acclaim.

By 1970, John's songs began a slow but steady upward trend in the charts.

After signing with Uni Records in the United States, he released the single "Border Song", which eventually reached No. 4 on the charts, and his music began to attract the attention of rock publications.

When his album was released in October of the same year, it also achieved good results at No. 4 on the charts.

This album uses wind instruments as the background music of many songs, almost all of which are serious and elegant works.

In the same month, the first Elton John cover band was formed, with the core players David Murray Uates (born in London on April 3, 1946) and Ollson (born in Wallasey, Merseyside on February 10, 1949).

As a result of this band, John recorded an Old West-themed special called "Tumblewed Connection," which became a huge hit.

It was due to the album's financial success that the band began to tour, and John, Murray and Olsen began to showcase their wild and eccentric musical style, which became the root of John's stage image in the 1970s.

A typical last performance of this style was "Burn Down The Mission", where John's lead vocals led the band into a cover of The Beatles' "Get Back" and other great rock music.

During the performance, John stood on his piano and danced wildly.

By 1972, John's tapes and performances were creating a rapturous response among music fans.

The album "The Maniac" climbed to No. 8 on the charts, and the album's lead song "Honky Chateau" topped the charts for 5 weeks.

John quickly became a music star.

In 1973, John formed his own record company "Rocket". Because he believed that recording records in his company would hinder other musicians who came to the company to record, he never recorded records in his own company.

His next album, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, still recorded at MCA, became John's best-selling album. Its most popular song was the spiritual-style "Benny and the Jets," which

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