$4,000
PIAGET "Protocole". Donated by Elton John and Piaget Notes Elton John With the release of his first album in 1969, "Empty Sky," Elton John set into motion a career of extraordinary duration in popular music, surviving setbacks to achieve new career goals and returning successfully from a period of rest. At the age of fifty-one, which he reached in 1998, the Academy Award-winning Elton John is still at the center of his profession. Since "Empty Sky," John has sold well over 200 million records worldwide. At the frantic peak of his American popularity in the mid-1970 's, John assembled a string of seven consecutive US number one albums in just three and a half years - a chart record pace exceeded only by The Beatles in the mid-60s. The GREATEST HITS album is one of the best-selling LPs in American history, with certified sales in the United States in excess of thirteen million. Elton even surpassed that total internationally with the soundtrack to the Disney film THE LION KING; the collection of songs he wrote with veteran ly ricist Tim Rice was the number one album in the World for the year 1994. THE LION KING evolved into a Tony Award-winning Broadway smash, and includes five new songs from the John-Rice duo, who have already completed their next Disney project, AIDA. This occasional partnership with Tim Rice is an example of John's willingness to work with any individual whose talent he respects. Elton John is the most sociable of all British chart Artists, suc Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1999-02-24
