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With a ship on his head, ostrich feathers on coat, Elton John dazzles Elton John, who put the flam(e) in flamboyant when it comes to clothes, outdid himself for his 50th birthday bash in London last week.

John staggered in wearing a silver brocade coat with a 25-foot-long train of ostrich feathers, and a 31/2-foot-tall silver wig topped with a silver ship.

His $80,000 costume was so elaborate that he had to be transported to the 600-guest party at the Hammersmith Palais in a trailer truck decorated to resemble an 18th-century French drawing room, according to the Times of London. John was lowered from the truck with a pneumatic lift and, upon arriving, sat in a golden throne from which ...

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