Elton John is good as gold.

The music legend, 78, explained how he turned his kneecaps into jewelry pieces after his double knee replacement in World Gold Council’s new documentary short film, “Touched By Gold.”

“When I had my kneecaps removed, the left one first and then the right, I asked my surgeon if I could keep the kneecaps, which he was rather startled about — then I rang you,” John said to jewelry designer Theo Fennell, who had approval from John to “do what you want with them.” 8

“We baked them,” Fennell explained of John’s kneecaps. “We had to bake them to dry them out. Then they get raw like pumice stone, they’re very porous. So we had to paint them with acetate and then just polish them up.”

Fennell then pulled out a sparkling gold-plated necklace made from one of J

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