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Laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder, under the covers, and I guess that's why they call it the blues.

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Elton John
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: March 25
Composer
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Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
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Sir Elton Hercules John
Reginald Kenneth Dwight
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