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Jewel, Elton John, and Will Smith are among the celebs nominated for the 24th Annual People's Choice Awards this year. The awards ceremony will be broadcast on CBS television from Santa Monica, California on Jan. 11.
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The sale of pirated copies of Elton John's tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales, "Candle in the Wind" in the shops of San Marino finally spurred immediate action from authorities there. (Details here.) See ... related news in Worldwide Column (Canberra, Australia).
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Elton John was followed quickly with the concept album Tumbleweed Connection in October 1970, which reached the Top Ten on the Billboard 200. A frenetic pace of releasing two albums a year was now established.
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Elton John has gotten himself accidentally involved in some child-porn/art controversy. A photo that shows two girls dancing where one of them is naked, part of an art collection is causing quite a stir. The BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, northeastern England, where the photo was being exhibited called police after they became concerned that people might be offended by the photo. MORE
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While a stage biography of singer Freddie Mercury was initially proposed, writer Elton chose to go in an entirely different and unexpected direction. At the show’s Toronto press conference in December, he explained he wanted to create a “rock colossus to reflect the legendary status of the band.”
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Seen lots of dissing of old Elton on the MOG lately, much of it well deserved for more stupid comments he's made of late. And it's true, most of what he's done since "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" has been crap. However, despite his attempts to be the next generations "Liberace", stumbling across this earlier today it seems prudent to me that we remember just how good some of his early stuff was. Something about his voice then (recent releases such as "One Night With..." MORE
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