Overview
The Rocket Man star said he is moved when he listens to certain songs.
He said: 'Part of me is black, definitely. I feel black sometimes. I've always felt that way.
'I feel an affinity for black music like no other, and I feel sometimes that when I'm playing it that I'm channeling something.
'Like Eric Clapton, or when Mick [Jagger] sings the blues.
'Black music was our gospel.'
He said he first felt it when 1974 single Bennie and the Jets topped the urban - then black music - charts in the States.
Elton, 63, born Reginald Dwight, told Rolling Stone magazine: 'That was the ultimate compliment, a white boy from [London suburb] Pinner has a Number One black record.
'It wasn't 'urban' back then, it was 'black'.'
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