They married in 2014, when same-sex marriage became legal in England and Wales. In 2005, he entered a civil partnership with his long-term partner, the Canadian filmmaker David Furnish. From the late 1970s to the late 1980s, John developed a severe addiction problem to drugs and alcohol, but has been sober since 1990. from 1976 to 1987, and again from 1997 to 2002, and is an honorary life president of the club. John was the chairman and director of Watford F.C. He established the Elton John AIDS Foundation in 1992, which has raised over £300 million since its inception, and a year later he began hosting his annual AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Party, which has since become one of the biggest high-profile Oscar parties in the Hollywood film industry. Outside of music, John is an HIV/AIDS charity fundraiser and has been involved in the fight against AIDS since the late 1980s. His life and career were dramatised in the 2019 biopic Rocketman. John's farewell tour Farewell Yellow Brick Road (2018–2023) became the highest-grossing tour of all-time. He has also had success in musical films and theatre, composing music for The Lion King, Aida, and Billy Elliot the Musical. John continued his success in the 1980s and 1990s, having several hit singles and albums in both decades, and has continued to record new music since then. John's critical success was at its peak in the 1970s, when he released a streak of chart-topping albums in the US and UK, which began with Honky Château (1972) and culminated with Rock of the Westies (1975). John released his debut album Empty Sky in 1969, and a year later formed the Elton John Band and released his first hit single, " Your Song". For two years, they wrote songs for other artists, and John worked as a session musician. John met Taupin after they both answered an advert for songwriters. He formed the blues band Bluesology in 1962, but left it in 1967 to embark on a solo career. John was raised in the Pinner suburb of London and learned to play piano at an early age, winning a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied for five years. His songwriting partnership with lyricist Bernie Taupin is one of the most successful in history. Acclaimed by critics and musicians, particularly for his work during the 1970s and for his lasting impact on the music industry, his music and showmanship have had a significant impact on popular music. I’m actually deadening out the high E also and then resolve take the pinky off.Sir Elton Hercules John CH CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight 25 March 1947) is a British singer, pianist and composer. I’m hitting the base note and the rest of the chord. Now we’re gonna reach the thumb over and play the base note there on the 7th fret and I like to deaden out the 5th string partly again why it sounds differently on the bar chord. Then to make it suspended, I put the pinky down on the 9th fret that’s on the third string, that’s suspended, pinky off is regular B chord. I’m using the 9th fret from the third, the 8th fret you can see that probably, second finger and first finger is on the 7th fret second string. We’re gonna play it this way – third finger on the 4th string, second finger on the third string and first finger on the second string. It actually has a 7th in it that’s why it sounds slightly different and then when I resolved, I take my pinky off and that makes the actual B chord. I’m just (1:54) on the 7th fret, put my pinky over there on the 9th fret on the 4th string and that’s a BSus4. As a matter of fact, there’s nothing wrong with playing like this (strumming) or suspended (strumming) resolution. It looks like this with the pinky right there as the 4th when you take it off it’s a third but the (1:42) is just slightly different than Pete Townshend. By the way, we’re making a B suspended 4 and this is a bar chord. We’re gonna put the third finger on the fourth string that’s the 9th fret. In this case it sounds more like The Who so look at the chord. I prefer not to develop the habit of always have to make a bar chord this way cause it limits me but its fine when I can play a regular bar chord like this and I can reach over just for more variety. Now it’s a good point that there is no absolute wrong or right. Now I taught in videos in the past I don’t like to reach my thumb over the neck but in this case if you wanna sound like Pete Townshend you’ll gonna have to do that. The real way Pete Townshend plays it in The Who is by sticking his thumb over the neck and playing the base note with his thumb. In the past I’ve shown you the D suspended 4, A suspended 4, E suspended 4 these were all open chords. 1:42 Edit Okay so this is a little more complex suspended 4th chord.
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