Today's kids are into much, much worse. They couldn't care less about Elton John, and for the most part Michael Jackson, either. These days it Marilyn Manson, Insane Clown Posse, Ludicrous (yeah, I know he spells it differently, but dammit, I was taught how to spell correctly!), etc.
The Elton and Michael generation parents were too stupid, too liberal or too unconcerned to keep ICP and Manson out of their homes, and we're paying for it now.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Elton