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‘Rocketman,’ a biopic on Elton John, is in the works, and now the 64-year-old singer reveals that his first choice to play him in the film is Justin Timberlake.

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Good news for fans of unforgettable Oscar moments: Elton John and Lady Gaga‘s duet ‘Hello, Hello,’ featured in the soundtrack to this year’s animated hit ‘Gnomeo & Juliet,’ is in the running for Best Song.

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Sir Elton John has a pretty gloomy view of the music industry, saying it’s “disappearing” because of the lack of artist development, resulting in musicians being dropped from labels if they don’t instantly score a No. 1 selling album. We have the full story from Ultimate Classic Rock.

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As heard on the Lite 98.7 morning show, Sir Elton John is coming to Central New York. He will play SPAC on Sunday September 4th, an 8pm show. No word on an opening act yet. What we do know are the ticket prices and when they'll go on sale.

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Every year, Forbes Magazine releases a list of the 25 biggest-earning musicians. For the second year in a row, U2 has been named the highest-paid band by Forbes.

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Note to the British media, Elton John is not a fan.  That's putting it lightly.  He didn't pull any punches about his feelings toward the British media in an interview with Barbara Walters. 

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Elton John put on a show as host of Saturday Night Live this weekend, marking only his second appearance on the long running sketch comedy show.

In his opening monologue John launched into a series of jokes about his new baby boy, whom John said was born with ten fingers, ten toes, and $400 million dollars. John also joked about Lady Gaga being his son's (named Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John) godmother.

As for the actual sketches, many seemed to rely on jokes about John's British roots, his flamboyant stage persona and his sexuality, including one sketch titled The Old West, in which John played, well, a flamboyant cowboy.

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I'm a huge Elton John fan, so I was eager to see this year's crop of American Idol hopefuls take on the tunes of Elton John and Bernie Taupin.  And they didn't disappoint. (Although, once again this year no one attempted by favorite, "Mona Lisa's And Mad Hatters.")

The performance that garnered the most attention was James Durbin's rockin' take on one of the rockin'-est songs in the Elton catalogue, "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting."  He channels Hendrix with his backbend and flames and pulls of the performance I'll be most likely to remember from this season.

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Elton John says Billy Joel is angry at him for his recent comments to "Rolling Stone" magazine regarding Billy's drinking problems and rehab stays.  In the article, Elton criticized Billy's rehab stays, saying they've been too easy on him in rehab and Billy won't get rid of his demons at "rehab light."  When he went to rehab, Elton says he had to clean the floors.  He went on to say Billy's drinking has effected both his songwriting and their joint touring too, saying Billy is "coasting."  Elton isn't done with his comments on all this.  Did you see him on the "Today" show last Thursday?

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Sir Elton John is praising Lady GaGa once again and says she will a long career because she is so "amazingly polite and respectful" to her entourage and fans. She may be to her fans, but her dress choices are a little out there!

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A grocery store in Arkansas has censored the photo of Elton John and partner David Furnish with their newborn son on the cover of US Weekly, by covering it with a "Family Shield." Showbiz reported that Harps grocery store shopper Jennifer Huddleston snapped the picture of the magazine placed behind a protective piece of gray plastic, which read, "Family Shield. To protect young shoppers," and posted it to her Twitter.com blog. See the picture snapped by Jennifer

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When Prince William and Kate Middleton tie the knot on April 29th, Elton John won't be at the royal wedding.  Why won't he be there? 

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