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Anyone who lip-synchs in public on stage when you pay 75 pounds to see them should be shot.

Elton John

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Elton John
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: March 25
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Reg Dwight
Sir Elton Hercules John
Reginald Kenneth Dwight
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