Elton John captivates audiences like no other.

Born Reginald Kenneth Dwight in 1947, Elton John left school at an early age to begin his path to becoming a pop-music superstar.

Elton John was first introduced to Bernie Taupin in 1967 at Liberty Records. A year later, they became staff songwriters for the DJM label.

Elton John's debut album, Empty Sky, from 1969 was country-heavy and cast Elton in an unusual light. Then came Elton's self-titled breakthrough album and his introduction to the international stage in 1970. From 1970-76, Elton John recorded and released one smash album after the next including: Elton John, Tumbleweed Connection, Madman Across The Water, Honky Chateau, Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only The Piano Player, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Caribou and Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy. Incredibly, Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy was the first album ever to enter the Billboard Chart in the esteemed Number One spot. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road had a string of Number One hit singles and spent two months at the top of the Billboard Top 100.

By the late 1970s, Elton John's partnership with Bernie Taupin began to cool and he began working with other lyricists.

Then, in 1980, Elton John and Bernie Taupin were reunited for the album 21 At 33. This return to peak form continued with Too Low For Zero, which included the hit songs "I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues" and "I'm Still Standing."

In 1994, Elton John released the double platinum album The One.

The 90s found Elton John rocketing to new heights. Elton collaborated with Tim Rice for Disney's The Lion King, which won a Best Male Pop Grammy and his first Academy Award. Elton has since collaborated with Tim Rice again on the Broadway smash Aida.

The late 1990s were a time of personal tragedy for Elton, with the loss of his good friends, fashion designer Gianni Versace, and Diana, Princess of Wales. Elton's recording of "Candle in the Wind 1997," his and Bernie's heartbreaking tribute to the late Princess Diana, has sold over 33,000,000 copies.

In 1998 HM Queen Elizabeth II knighted Elton for "services to music and charitable services."

Four decades into his career and Elton John is still turning out some of the best music of his career. His 2001 album, Songs From The West Coast, included the hit single "I Want Love."

In September 2005 Elton marked the 30th anniversary of the release of one of his best-loved albums, Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, with a new deluxe CD version of the album, and a series of special concerts in America where he performed most of the Captain Fantastic songs in concerts that lasted for well over three hours. In the same year Elton and Bernie Taupin collaborated on the music for Lestat, based on Anne Rice's Vampire Lestat novels. This musical opened on New York's Broadway in April 2006.

In 2006, Elton thrilled longtime fans when he released the autobiographical album The Captain & The Kid, the sequel to Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy.

In 2007, Elton John release Rocket Man -The Definitive Hits, on CD and DVD, featuring eighteen classic hit songs. Later that year, Elton John's entire catalogue of music( nearly 500 tracks-90 singles and 32 albums) became available to download legally.

Elton John celebrated his 60th birthday on March 25th, 2007, by breaking his own record with an unmatched 60th concert at Madison Square Garden in New York.