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His outrageous costumes and spectacles.

The earring on his right ear.

The gap between his teeth.

His rich falsetto voice.

His hair transplant, which is often red.

In 1974, during one of his concerts at Madison Square Garden, John Lennon joined him on stage to perform three songs. This was part of a bet that if Lennon's song "Whatever Gets You Through the Night" went to #1, he would join Elton on stage. This proved to be Lennon's last on-stage performance.

He is a reformed drug addict, alcoholic and bulimic. He also has epilepsy.

He began wearing glasses to copy one of his idols, Buddy Holly. After a while, his eyes adjusted to the lenses and he's worn glasses ever since. He owns a thousand pairs of glasses.

Stevie Wonder played harmonica on his song "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues".

His song "Empty Garden" is a tribute to John Lennon.

I haven't made a good album in a long while. Not since 1976 and Blue Moves.

If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.

[after being asked about his sexuality in the 1970s] I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats, though.

Nowadays, record companies want the quick buck from the Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, S Club 7, Steps. They've always been around, I'm not knocking the music perhaps, but it's like packets of cereal. There are too many of them, too many of them are just mediocre. And I think it damages real people's chance, real talent, of getting airplay. It's just fodder.

There's so much you're expected to do and you follow a pattern. You make a record, you do a video. I like to break the rules a little bit more and I did in the 1970s, I should try a little bit more now.