Elton has also had success in musical films and theatre, composing music for The Lion King and its stage adaptation, The Road to El Dorado, Aida and Billy Elliot the Musical. Elton continued his success in the 1980s, having several hit singles including "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues", "I'm Still Standing", "Sad Songs (Say So Much)", "Nikita" and "Sacrifice", and has continued to record new music since then. Elton's most commercially successful period was the 1970s, during which he released several hit albums including Madman Across the Water (1971), Honky Château (1972), Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player (1973), Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) and Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975). Since 1970, he has toured with the Elton John Band as the pianist and lead singer. In 1970, his first hit single, "Your Song", from his second album, Elton John, became his first top ten in both the UK and the US. In 1969, Elton's debut album, Empty Sky, was released. For two years, they wrote songs for other artists, and Elton worked as a session musician for artists. He met his longtime musical partner Bernie Taupin in 1967, after they both answered an advert for songwriters. Raised in the Pinner area of Greater London, Elton learned to play piano at an early age, and by 1962 had formed Bluesology, a blues band with whom he played until 1967.
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