Paramount has green-lit the Elton John biopic Rocketman, starring Taron Egerton as the iconic singer-songwriter. Born Reginald Kenneth Dwight, the artist known as Elton John has sold over 300 million albums in a career spanning six decades. Working in collaboration with song-writing partner Bernie Taupin, John has scored more than fifty Top 40 hits, including the Princess Diana tribute song Candle in the Wind 1997 (a reworking of his prior Marilyn Monroe tribute song Candle in the Wind), which became the biggest-selling single in U.S. and U.K. history with over 33 million copies sold.
During his original rise as a hit-maker in the late ’60s and early ’70s, John became as well-known ...
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