The Fratellis - Costello Music

18 September 2006

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He's a songwriter, humanitarian, Grammy, Oscar, Tony and BRIT winner, Broadway champion, football benefactor, a superstar and yet still a man of the people. He's the most enduringly successful singer/songwriter of his generation and also the most decorated. But such is his insatiable appetite to meet and beat new creative challenges that any biography of Elton John needs updating practically by the week.

Despite all of these commitments, he would never disprespect his day job of close to 40 years. Elton has just completed his 44th album, released on 18 September 2006, and it's characteristically ambitious. 'The Captain and the Kid' is Elton and Bernie Taupin's all-new autobiographical update of the classic 1975 album that documented their experiences to that point, 'Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy'.

The original 'Captain Fantastic' was the first album ever to debut on the Billboard chart at No 1, during the staggeringly creative hot streak that represented Elton's first wave of global success, and incorporated at least one top 40 entry on the Hot 100 every year from 1970 to 1995. The new album seizes the momentum of Elton's acclaimed albums of the new century, 2004's 'Peachtree Road' and 2001's multi-platinum selling 'Songs From The West Coast', records that saw his creative spirit and span reaching new levels.