Diva Canon - ELTON

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

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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Comments

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

John Peel regularly said that Elton was one of the best honky-tonk piano players he'd ever known, and always wanted him to come in and play an instrumental session, but he never did.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, sorry to be Mr Know-it-all-about-Elton on this thread, but in fact he did!

Details on this page (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/sessions/1970s/1973/Dec18eltonjohn/)

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I stand semi-corrected - since there are backing singers on that, it's clearly not the instrumental session he was wanting. I wasn't listening to Peel then (before even my time!) and he kept saying over the later years that he had sent out feelers but never got anywhere. I may have forgotten his mentioning a session early in Elton's stardom.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

The backing singers (Peel, Walters & co.) are only on the drunken demolition of 'Your Song' and 'Daniel'. The pub medley and the WOBS medley are 100% honkytonk joanner and no singing (can't remember what the Dylan medley was like, but more of the same I'll wager).

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

But I'm sure you're correct to say that Peel hoped to have more sessions from Elton in a similar vein that never happened. :)