WSP Global Inc. announced that it has acquiredElton Consulting Group PtyLtd (“Elton Consulting”), a 115-employee consulting firm based in Sydney in Australia, with additional offices across the country. This transaction was financed using WSP’s available cash and credit facilities. “This acquis...
John surprised the pop world, his friends and himself, no doubt, by marrying Renate Blauel, a recording engineer he met while making an album in London. The wedding took place on Valentine’s Day while John was on tour in Australia. “We just clicked,” he said later that year. “It ...
Born Dec. 26, 1880, in Adelaide, South Australia; died Sept. 7, 1949, in Polsden Lacy, Surrey, Great Britain. American sociologist; professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. One of the founders of American industrial sociology and the originator of the doctrine of ...
... After travelling with her on the Australian leg of his Too Low for Zero tour, Elton John prosed to Blauel. The couple wed on Valentine's Day 1984 in St. Mark's Church the area of Darling Point in Sydney, Australia andwere married for four years. What happened to Elton John's ...
. 1984 ~ British rocker Elton John married Renata Blauel in Sydney, Australia on this day. . 1998 ~Frederick LoeweAmerican composer of musicals, died More information aboutLoewe . 2003 ~Jack Maher, 78, who served more than three decades as publisher of respected jazz magazine Down Beat and ...
Sir Elton Hercules John -Elton John was originally born with the name Reginald Kenneth Dwight. -His name change derived from his first band members’ names: Elton Dean and Long John Baldry. The “Hercules” was taken from a character in a British TV show. -The “Sir” was included in hi...
“Carla/Etude” was arranged by James Newton Howard, at the time a keyboardist in John’s band but later to become an Oscar-nominated film composer. For perhaps the song’s finest realization, seek out the version on 1987’s 'Live in Australia' album; John has also occasionally performed...
John later maintained that he had realized that he was gay before he married. In 1986 he lost his voice while touring Australia and shortly thereafter underwent throat surgery. John continued recording prolifically, but years of cocaine and alcohol abuse, initiated in earnest around the time ofRo...
One of Australia's most successful musical acts of all time, INXS has been eligible for the Rock Hall since 2006, though never nominated. They were, however, inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association Hall of Fame in 2001, just four years after the death of lead singer Michae...
One of Australia's most successful musical acts of all time, INXS has been eligible for the Rock Hall since 2006, though never nominated. They were, however, inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association Hall of Fame in 2001, just four years after the death of lead singer Michae...