Bernard John Taupin CBE (born 22 May 1950) is an English musician, songwriter and artist. The long-term songwriting collaboration and collaboration with Elton John is his most noteworthy accomplishment. Taupin composed the lyrics to the majority of John's songs. In the year 1967, Taupin responded to an advertisement in New Musical Express by Liberty Records. John answered the same advertisement and the two have collaborated on numerous albums. Taupin and John were admitted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1992.Taupin was born at Flatters House, a farmhouse located between the town of Anwick and the town of Sleaford located in the southern region of Lincolnshire, England, the son of Robert Taupin and Daphne, daughter of John Leonard Palchett "Poppy" Cort and a University of Cambridge-educated classics teacher who was also the rector of Sale, Greater Manchester (then counted as in Cheshire).
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