Elton John hit his artistic peak half a century ago with 'Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy,' the first album to debut at No. 1 on the album chart.

The Enigma code was a fiendish cipher that took Alan Turing and his fellow codebreakers a herculean effort to crack. Yet experts say it would have crumbled in the face of modern computing.

In 1975, Elton John released the instant hit album 'Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy' about his partnership with Bernie Taupin.