"You're going to do I Guess That's Why They Call It Blues, you're going to do Your Song, and you're going to do Rocket Man," he said. Like many pianists, Tankard "cut his teeth playing in piano bars", which means that, by default, he was going to end up playing Elton John songs. "It's a great vocal performance and the bit at the end where he hits his falsetto, it's just great." "It's quite hypnotic, and that outro is gorgeous," he said. While that detail might not resonate with most listeners, they definitely pick up on the hypnotic back-and-forth of its two-chord verses and outro. Rocket Man immediately jumped out to Johnstone, who asked John to play it again.īernie Taupin and Elton John pose backstage with their Golden Globe in January 2020. New guitarist Davey Johnstone was sceptical that John and Taupin could work so fast, so John played the three songs for him. Taupin's lyrics were inspired by a Ray Bradbury short story titled The Rocket Man, in which an astronaut has to regularly leave his wife and child to make trips into space, with Taupin taking the novel approach of imagining the life of an astronaut as "just job, five days a week", as opposed to the heroes of the time. On the first morning in the chateau, John had turned three sets of Taupin lyrics into songs before the band awoke. I can't explain it and I don't want to explain it."Īt Château d'Hérouville, Taupin would sit at his typewriter in a room by himself, "bash out his lyrics", as John put it, "and leave them for me on the piano" for John to find in the morning and put to music over breakfast. "I've never sat down with one of Bernie's lyrics and nothing has come out. "The muse, God, luck: you can give it a name if you want, but I've no idea what it is.
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