Sir Elton is the first male diva to get the canon treatment! With a whopping 68 UK Top 40 hits he is one of Britain's most successful pop stars, and you get an IMMENSE
22 ticks to let the world know which songs are best!
ELTON FACTS: Elton once auditioned for King Crimson!
He wrote the UK's 1969 Eurovision entry and it came LAST
His middle name is Hercules
When his asked in court about spending £293,000 on flowers in less than two years, John said: "Yes, I like flowers"
Elton really likes playing tennis.
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Date: 2006-09-08 01:10 pm (UTC)Anyway, Step Into Christmas is pretty much my favourite festive song. I could tick it 22 times all on its own.
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Date: 2006-09-08 01:12 pm (UTC)It never! That's brilliant.
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Date: 2006-09-08 01:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-09-08 01:12 pm (UTC)"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" - his best song, really great.
"Nikita" - I thought this was v.deep aged 11 or 12. More ticks please!!
A soul fan friend of mine used to rave about his sessions w/Thom Bell. (or was it Gamble and Huff) - this was his gateway into Elton fandom.
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Date: 2006-09-08 01:22 pm (UTC)More love for Philadelphia Freedom and HONKY CAT pls!
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Date: 2006-09-08 01:24 pm (UTC)Hunting the horny back toad
Great Elton covers
Date: 2006-09-08 01:22 pm (UTC)Biz Markie- Benny and the Jets
Any others?
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Date: 2006-09-08 01:30 pm (UTC)1. Border Song - Eric Clapton
2. Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time) - Kate Bush
3. Come Down In Time - Sting
4. Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting) - The Who
5. Crocodile Rock - Beach Boys
6. Daniel - Wilson Phillips
7. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word - Joe Cocker
8. Levon - Jon Bon Jovi
9. The Bitch Is Back - Tina Turner
10. Philadelphia Freedom - Daryl Hall And John Oates
11. Your Song - Rod Stewart
12. Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me - Oleta Adams
13. Madman Across The Water - Bruce Hornsby
14. Sacrifice - Sinead O'Connor
15. Burn Down The Mission - Phil Collins
16. Tonight - George Michael
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Date: 2006-09-08 01:26 pm (UTC)ah maybe this should be attached to tom's q about B Taupin...
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Date: 2006-09-08 01:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-09-08 01:31 pm (UTC)Re: Enough candles to fill a menorah
Date: 2006-09-08 03:11 pm (UTC)I've even gone off the original 73 version a bit, tho' with time I'm sure I'll learn to love it again.
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Date: 2006-09-08 03:20 pm (UTC)But Kat's "Fact" #2 is wrong. Elton and Bernie wrote one of six songs for Lulu as part of "A Song For Europe" 1969. It came sixth and last in the voting ("Boom Bang A Bang" won and became the UK's Eurovision entry that year, finishing joint first in the latter Contest)
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Date: 2006-09-08 03:20 pm (UTC)I am always very disappointed that 'Still Standing' by Alexis Strum/Kylie is not the Elton song. Assuming the Elton song is the one I am currently thinking of... it's got a panano in it so I assume it is.
I didn't manage 22 ticks but there was a lot more there than I expected. I hate Disney films with a passion but I do like his Lion King songs. Actually, maybe we should do film music/musicals canons? The Disney one would be 400,000,000 sections long of course but there is some ace pop on there.
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Date: 2006-09-09 10:04 am (UTC)Ego
Date: 2006-09-08 03:31 pm (UTC)Good stuff from Marcello on "Ego" and some other Elton songs here (http://cookham.blogspot.com/2003_09_21_cookham_archive.html).
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Date: 2006-09-08 04:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-08 05:05 pm (UTC)Details on this page (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/sessions/1970s/1973/Dec18eltonjohn/)
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Date: 2006-09-08 04:57 pm (UTC)