Elton John tunes that you can't help liking
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dynamicbaddog
run for your life
Pinball Wizard
Johnny Canuck3
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Tiny Dancer
Solar Prestige a Gammon
Honky Cat
Madman Across the Water
The Bitch is Back
Levon
Saturday Night's Alright
Solar Prestige a Gammon
Honky Cat
Madman Across the Water
The Bitch is Back
Levon
Saturday Night's Alright
butterfly child
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I quite like Elton's tunes.
I try not to, but they creep into my brain and I find myself singing along.
I have been singing every bleeding song everyone has mentioned on this thread
I try not to, but they creep into my brain and I find myself singing along.
I have been singing every bleeding song everyone has mentioned on this thread
Louloubelle
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I used to love Elton's tune as a kid, then as I grew up I got into reggae and soul and was dismissive of them. then recently I met a singer/ pianist who idolizes him and who sounds incredibly like a young elton (probably too much like a young elton) but I really enjoyed hearing the songs live and song with such passion.
The one Elton song I can't hear without crying is Rocket Man.
It was the music that accompanied the very moving scene in Nip Tuck where the doctor helps his lover who is dying of cancer to commit suicide.
They go to a hotel where she takes a load of pills, drinks some water and they hold hands and then as she drifts off she says "I'm ready for you to put it on" and he puts a plastic bag over hear head and cries.
As I watched it I allowed myself to become conscious of the fact that someone very close to me was dying. I had known it but was joining him in pretending it wasn't happening.
I watched it and cried all night. It was really the moment that I said goodbye to him, because he wasn't able to accept it so I had to keep on pretending for his sake.
Now I can't hear that song without crying.
Funny how music can do that to you.
The one Elton song I can't hear without crying is Rocket Man.
It was the music that accompanied the very moving scene in Nip Tuck where the doctor helps his lover who is dying of cancer to commit suicide.
They go to a hotel where she takes a load of pills, drinks some water and they hold hands and then as she drifts off she says "I'm ready for you to put it on" and he puts a plastic bag over hear head and cries.
As I watched it I allowed myself to become conscious of the fact that someone very close to me was dying. I had known it but was joining him in pretending it wasn't happening.
I watched it and cried all night. It was really the moment that I said goodbye to him, because he wasn't able to accept it so I had to keep on pretending for his sake.
Now I can't hear that song without crying.
Funny how music can do that to you.
Johnny Canuck3
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marty21 said:
Louloubelle
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dessiato said:
thank you
really thank you, just writing that has transported me into a very sad place, I miss him so much
*sobs and blows nose*
Johnny Canuck3
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That tiny dancer clip put me into a weird place. I have to watch something different. I'll try Madonna: Like a Prayer....
isvicthere?
a.k.a. floppybollocks
Elton John, like Rod stewart, has long since turned into a showbiz tart, to the detriment of the legacy of his early high quality work. I like all the obvious ones, plus the last track on the otherwise disappointing "Caribou" album: "Ticking".
Elton John was the third gig I ever saw (at Southampton Gaumont) in May 1976 - just a couple of weeks after Saints won the F.A. Cup. He kept mentioning it throughout his set, "Come on, let's hear that Wembley roar!"
Elton John was the third gig I ever saw (at Southampton Gaumont) in May 1976 - just a couple of weeks after Saints won the F.A. Cup. He kept mentioning it throughout his set, "Come on, let's hear that Wembley roar!"
Louloubelle
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dessiato said:
Aw thanks
feeling better now
sometimes it's good to have a cry
I hope he's in a better place now
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
He will be if they haven't got Elton John's music*Louloubelle said:I hope he's in a better place now
Glad you're feeling better !
* after 1974
Louloubelle
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London_Calling said:
LOL
mourning is good for the soul
I feel happy and sad because I miss him but I hold the good memories in my heart and the more I mourn and cry the stronger those memories are, so it's like I have an internal version of him living in my heart and always will.
It's just that the feelings of missing him are so painful
so there you go, kind of happy yet kind of sad too
anyway, back to elton....
