His musical talents were clear from an early age, taking up the piano aged 3 and getting a scholarship to the Royal Academy of music at 11.Īfter a turbulent relationship with Elton’s father, who expressed very little interest in the young musician, Elton’s mother divorced and remarried.

Born in 1947 as Reginald Kenneth Dwight, Elton experienced a fairly restrictive childhood growing up in Middlesex.