Rock legend reveals that he had his body parts turned into jewelry

Elton John doesn’t shy away from the strange and unusual. In his new documentary “Touched By Gold,” released Monday, the legendary rocker revealed how he creatively preserved two body parts after undergoing surgery.

“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 during the filming, noting that he gave jewelry designer Theo Fennell a call. “The Rocket Man” singer then gave Fennell his kneecaps and told him to do “what you want with them” after his double knee replacement.

Fennell, who appears in the documentary, said his team then “baked” John’s kneecaps to “dry them out,” which ultimately made the bones raw like pumice stone and porous. The kneecap