All articles filed in June 2011

Can you believe it’s been one year since the inaugural post?  Oh, it doesn’t seem a year ago to this very day…but it’s certainly been almost 40 years of musical idolatry. Looking back, I’m impressed that I’ve been able to keep up with the blog…I certainly do have fun with it.  I wish I had…

…that gets to us all. Absence does make the heart grow fonder, wouldn’t you say?  It’s just that Bernie says it with a bit more originality than I. Grey London morning, wet London streets Rain on the window, wind in the trees It’s my time to write, it’s your time to call There’s something about…

So, I was getting ready to blog about the song Friends (from the 1971 movie of the same name), and I started thinking about the movies that Elton has either written music for or in which his music or vocals are featured.  I knew about some of those movies, but I figured there were more…

I thought I’d blog about these two songs together – to me, they go hand in hand.  Thematically, they’re very similar; musically, they’re both very mournful, arguably even anguished.   One slight problem:  This may encourage an extra lengthy blog post from moi.  (Ah, I hear that collective, heavy sigh from my readers, all 2…

I’m going way back for this song.  Off of his first album, Skyline Pigeon still reigns as one of my favorites.  Can you believe this song is over 40 years old?  The lyrics are still beautiful to this day, as is the melody. Turn me loose from your hands Let me fly to distant lands…

This song came to mind while I watched the Royal Wedding back in April.  We were all honorary Brits as we followed the festivities, so in some small sense, I guess we all wished we had been “made in England,” if only for that one day. I’ve always felt a connection to this song.  No,…