Happy Birthday: Elton John

Elton John

Born: March 25, 1947 in Pinner, Harrow, Middlesex [now London], England, UK

Married to: David Furnish (21 December 2014 – present) (2 children)
Renate Blauel (14 February 1984 – 18 November 1988) (divorced)

[on Freddie Mercury] One of my very closest friends, a man whom I loved dearly, and a man who was loved by millions of people around the world. Freddie told me he had AIDS soon after he was diagnosed in 1987. I was devastated. I’d seen what the disease had done to so many of my other friends. I knew exactly what it was going to do to Freddie. As did he. He knew death, agonizing death, was coming. But Freddie was incredibly courageous. He kept up appearances, he kept performing with Queen, and he kept being the funny, outrageous, and profoundly generous person he had always been.

[on “How Deep Is Your Love” by The Bee Gees] It’s a great kick to see a song stay silent for a while and then a new generation of people pick up on it and think it’s great. That happened with the Take That cover and will happen to The Bee Gees again and again. They have written some of the greatest pop songs ever.

There was no question: I was going to change, or I was going to die. And I desperately wanted to change. I remember many days when I would sit alone in my room, drinking, using, binging, listening to Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush sing “Don’t Give Up” over and over, weeping at the chorus. I was falling further down the rabbit hole with every gram of cocaine. But I couldn’t – or, I should say, wouldn’t – ask for help. Many people in my life suffered through my rage, my denial, my refusal to listen. I was an asshole and knew I had a problem.

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