He’s had a staggering number of good friends suffer premature ends, including two - truly unthinkable - who were assassinated. He’s had hits paying tribute in some way or another to real-life figures who had passed (“Song For Guy,” “The Last Song,” the multiple versions of “Candle in the Wind”) and deeper cuts imagining the deaths of fictional ones (“Ticking,” “The King Must Die,” “Son of Your Father”). It’s not an exaggeration to say that death has hung over most of Elton John’s career.
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