Elton John: New York Concert For 60th Birthday

Sir Elton John is finishing preparations for the New York Madison square Garden concert, which will mark his 60th birthday.

The concert which begins tonight at 20:30 hours, local time, will be broadcast love on MSN Internet web site, and the recording will be available later on as well.

Pop music veteran, who started playing the piano when he was four years old, was born as Reginald Dwight in Pinner, Middlesex, on March 25 1947. He will perform for the 60^th time at Madison Square Garden, and will throw a private party on Manhattan for friends and other celebrities, which he recently did after his London concert.

On of Elton`s most famous Madison Square Garden concerts was held in November 1974 when he was joined on stage by the legendary John Lennon. This turned out to be Lennon`s final live performance.

Sir Elton`s career started in the early 1960s. He was playing the piano in a pub nearby his home, and formed a band called Bluesology.

Not long after, he changed his name to Elton John after a colleague from Bluesology, saxophone player Elton Dean and musician Long John Baldry.

His first 1971 hit, “Your Song”, which climbed to the tope ten straight away in the USA and Great Britain, launched him into a successful music orbit, during which he sold around 200 million albums.

Since 1990 he has exceptionally been engaged with raising funds for the diseased with AIDS. It is known that the singer is gay and since recently happily married to his long-standing partner, Canadian director David Furnish.

One fact must not be forgotten: his version of the song “Candle In The Wind”, at first dedicated to the tragically deceased actress Marilyn Monroe, which he performed at the funeral of a dear friend of his, also tragically deceased British princes Diana of Wales in 1997, will be recorded ad the fastest selling single in Britain of all time.