Daddies cool

FOUR WEEKS after the birth of his first child, Elton John comes bounding into the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills beaming more broadly than a Cheshire cat on ecstasy.

To say the 63-year-old is on top of the world right now would be a gross understatement. The man is practically levitating. Dressed in a tight-fitting blue blazer and matching round blue shades, he is friendly and relaxed and eager to talk.

Forty one years since his first number one hit Your Song and with every major accolade that exists on his many mantelpieces, Elton Hercules John, nee Reginald Kenneth Dwight, is busier and more prolific than ever. With a resume which people half his age would be exhausted at even contemplating, Sir Elton seems more engaged with life than ever thanks in the main to the birth on Christmas day of Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish John via a surrogate mother in California. The father is his partner of 18 years and husband of five years Canadian film maker David Furnish (48).