The pair would go on to collaborate on over thirty albums beginning in the early 70's and ending to date. The pair split up and stopped collaborating with one another between 1977 and 1979. During their time apart, Taupin would work with other songwriters including Alice Cooper while John worked with other greats such as Gary Osborne and Tom Robinson. Despite taking some time apart, Taupin and John did release a single in 1978 titled "Ego" which was their only collaboration of note during that period. The pair soon resumed writing together on an occasional basis at first in 1980. During this time, Taupin would contribute lyrics to only three or four songs on each of John's albums, "The Fox", "21 at 33", and "Jump Up!"
A 1991 documentary called "Two Rooms" described the writing style the pair developed which involved Taupin writing the lyrics and then John putting them to music. The duo still works together in fundamentally the same way to this day with Taupin coming up with words and John putting them to music but today the two interact far more on songs after Taupin joining John in the studio as the songs were written. He would also be present occasionally during recording sessions. Elton John is far from the only big name that Taupin wrote lyrics for. He also wrote lyrics for Starship, Heart, Alice Cooper, David Ackles, and French American musician, Josquin Des Pres, to name a few. Taupin also released three solo albums of his own titled "Taupin," "He Who Rides The Tiger", and "Tribe".
Personal Life:
Bernie Taupin stands 5 feet 6 inches tall with blue eyes and dark brown hair and follows the Roman Catholic religion. Aside from his career as a songwriter, Taupin enjoys writing books but it was his career as a songwriter that took him to Southern California in the mid-1970's. He even published a successful novel called "The Devil at High Noon". Taupin also enjoys painting and owns a restaurant in downtown Los Angeles called "Cicada". While Taupin achieved great success with his passions, his relationships did not fare nearly as good.
The songwriter and author would go on to marry four times and get divorced three times. His first wife was Maxine Feibelman who he married in 1971. Taupin and Feibelman divorced a short time after he would go on to marry his second wife, Toni Lynn Russo in 1979. Again, the relationship would be doomed to failure and he and Russo divorced in 1991. For a third time Taupin married, this time to a woman named Stephanie Haymes on August 21, 1993, but this marriage would not last either and the pair divorced in 1998.
Taupin is currently living with his fourth wife named Heather Lynn Hodgins Kidd whom he wed on March 27, 2004. Taupin and Kidd went on to have two daughters, Charley Indiana and Georgey Devon. Ever since the 1980's, Taupin and Kidd have been living on their ranch north of Los Angeles near Santa Ynez, California. Taupin has established himself as a respected songwriter and author and has earned a high degree of success in his lifetime. He has a net worth of $70 million and he is quite active on both Twitter and Facebook where he enjoys interacting with fans.
Return to the previous page| Birth Date: | 22 May, 1950 |
| Age: | 69 yrs |
| Citizenship: | United Kingdom |
| Birth Place: | Sleaford |
| Gender: | Male |
| Description: | British songwriter |
| Spouse: | Maxine Feibelman[1971-1976] |
| Net Worth 2021: | 150 million |
