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Sir Elton Hercules John CH CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, pianist, and composer. He has worked with lyricist Bernie Taupin since 1967; they have collaborated on more than 30 albums. John has sold more than 300 million records, making him one of the world's best-selling music artists. He has more than fifty Top 40 hits, as well as seven consecutive number-one albums in the United States, 58 Billboard Top 40 singles, 27 Top 10 singles, four of which peaked at number two and nine of which reached number one. His tribute single "Candle in the Wind 1997", rewritten in dedication to Diana, Princess of Wales, sold over 33 million copies worldwide and is the best-selling single in the history of the UK and US singles charts. He has also produced records and occasionally acted in films. John owned Watford F.C. from 1976 to 1987 and from 1997 to 2002, and is an honorary life president of the club.
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Hitmaker of the Month: With ‘Cold Heart,’ Australia’s Pnau Reach Career Peak Reimagining Elton John Classics

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Charlie Amter Australian electronic music purveyors Pnau are no strangers to hits in their native country. But the trio still remains lesser-known in the rest of the world — a fact which has started to change this winter, thanks to the now global smash “Cold Heart (Pnau Remix),” a re-working of several Elton John songs, which also features vocals from Dua Lipa.

The remix hit No. 1 on radio in the U.K. and many other countries last year, and it just cracked the Top 10 in the United States earlier this month.“It’s a massive moment for us at this stage in our career….

we’ve been doing this for a while now, and it’s so nice to be recognized,” says the act’s co-founder Peter Mayes from Sydney, where he is riding out the pandemic temporarily before planning a return this spring to Los Angeles, where he now lives.

So how did Pnau, a long-established group down under with its own following among electronic music fans, get the opportunity to work with Elton John and update his classic songs “Rocket Man,” “Kiss the Bride,” and “Sacrifice” via a remix (which also uses elements of another more obscure John tune) to turn it into an entirely new composition?Says Mayes: “We’ve been working with Elton for about 15 years now,” says Mayes, 43. “He first discovered us in Australia around 2007, and we even moved to London and then took up with his management company at the time. … We did an album with Elton that came out in 2012 [Elton John vs Pnau “Good Morning to the Night”] and it went No.

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