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Elton John - The Captain and the Kid

ELTON JOHN BIOGRAPHY, MAY 2006
He's a songwriter, humanitarian, Grammy, Oscar, Tony and BRIT winner, Broadway champion, football benefactor, a superstar and yet still a man of the people. He's the most enduringly successful singer/ songwriter of his generation and also the most decorated. But such is his insatiable appetite to meet and beat new creative challenges, any biography of Elton John needs updating practically by the week.

There's also the little matter of a new British tour which opened on May 28 at the Point in Dublin, interspersed with other European shows and incorporating a typically imaginative run of concerts at English cricket grounds, in locations such as Canterbury, Worcester, Taunton and Hove. It's a tour that, for all his global savvy, reflects Elton's undying love of Great British culture, and it had an echo of his football stadium tour of 2005.

On the business side, Elton remains the most educated of musicians, ever-eager to follow the machinations of the industry and intricately informed about trends and developments. He champions the abilities of up-and-coming artists devotedly, and has seen one of those talents, James Blunt, become one of the bestselling artists of the decade and a genuine British breakthrough in America. This is validation indeed, since Blunt is managed by Twenty First Artists, the management company Elton co-owned and sold in 2005 to the Sanctuary Group. Not only does Elton champion the cause of many talented younger artists, but he relishes writing and working with them, and his latest collaboration, writing with the Scissor Sisters, will be heard later this year.
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