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This post is for my brothers…I know, I’m being very literal here, but since they both are now subscribers of my blog (thank you very much!), I figured I’d dedicate a song (and a blog post) to them. The Greatest Discovery is one of my all-time favorite Elton John songs.  I’ve always loved it, but…

WHAT? Did she really say that?  Well, if it got you to read my blog, then it worked – even if it isn’t quite true.  Of course, I do like the way his music sounded before, but I also like the way it sounds now, too. Idol is supposedly about Elvis, who was a big…

My daughter requested that I blog about this song – it is her favorite Elton John song.  I’m quite fond of it, too. American Triangle is about the death of Matthew Shephard, a gay college student from Wyoming who was brutally murdered in 1998.  I remember hearing about this when it happened – I was…

Oh, what an amazing line!  Classic Taupin, that’s for sure.  Bernie, you never cease to amaze me. Surprise, surprise – I really like this song! But for a change, it was the arrangement/musicality (AKA Davey’s guitar!!!) that caught my ear when I first heard it.  Blue Avenue is one of those songs that I don’t…

Ok, so there’s a funny story behind this song (at least I think it’s funny).  I was in college when I first heard Elton’s Song, and I must admit that I thought (or more accurately, hoped) that he could very well be singing about me: I love your gypsy hair And dark brown eyes Always…

Ok, so I’ve butchered the lyrics, Bernie – my sincerest apologies!  But as I was listening to Blue Moves recently, I was drawn to recall Elton John instrumentals (there are 3 on that album alone) and how perhaps that’s a side of Elton’s music that many people don’t know about.  I mean, when you have…

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…