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Article: Celebrities
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- April 13, 1997
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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 ...