Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is one of the greatest contemporary music records ever made. Funeral for a Friend introduces the record in no uncertain terms and blasts the ears with an organ like synthesizer tune (performed on an ARP synthesizer…
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Funeral For a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding (1973) – Elton John
Tagged with: Elton John, funeral for a friend love lies bleeding, goodbye yellow brick road
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Daniel (1973) – Elton John
Daniel is traveling tonight on a planeI can see the red tail lights heading for SpainAnd I can see Daniel waving goodbyeOh it looks like Daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes It takes a while to grow up.…
Crystal (1983) – Elton John
This is the 4th song by Elton John to appear in this Music Library Project and the second song to feature from his 1983 record Two Low For Zero which is my favourite John 80’s record. What entails the ‘Music…
Cold as Christmas (1983) – Elton John
I’m a huge fan of Elton John’s Too low for Zero album and Cold as Christmas brings the temperature down, way down as only John can do to open the album and lead us into the title track. This song…
Circle of Life (1994) – Elton John
I was iffing and butting as to whether to include today’s song just because of how commercial – certainly for its time and mainstream it is. So I listened to it again and it pricked my ears as it has…
Blue Eyes (1982) – Elton John
It’s strange this is the first song to appear in the Music Library Project by Elton John considering how many of his songs will feature here in the Music Library Project. I listened to Elton more than any other music…
Rocketman- Elton Hercules John!
As I alluded to in a recent post there is a plethora of music homage movies set for release in 2019, Rocketman is one such feature which centers on the musical-life of Elton John. This review does contain spoilers so…
Tagged with: bernie taupin, Elton John, Rocketman, taron egerton, your song
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
Music Homage Films Abound in 2019 (Beatles, Springsteen, Elton John & Bob Dylan)
After the big box-office smash hit Bohemian Rhapsody, film studios must have been wiping the dust off dozens of musical homage scripts faster than they could sing: ‘We will, we will rock you!’. Yesterday and Blinded By The LightIn similar…
Tagged with: beatles, Blinded By the Light, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Film, IMDB, Martin Scorsese, music, Rocketman, Rolling Thunder Revue, Yesterday
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
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