The underrated guitarist and longtime Elton John cohort isolates the guitar parts from ‘Love Lies Bleeding’, including possibly the greatest riff of any Elton John song.
Video of the Week: Davey Johnstone Demonstrates the Guitar Riffs from ‘Love Lies Bleeding’
06 Aug 2022 Leave a comment
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Did You Ever Realize…
10 Jul 2022 Leave a comment
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Video of the Week: ‘Born to Boogie’–T. Rex in Concert with Ringo Starr and Elton John, 1972
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Video of the Week: How Elton John Uses Inversions
18 Jun 2021 Leave a comment
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Video of the Week: Rowan Atkinson interviewing Elton John
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Flashback: Elton John Sings ‘Your Song’ Across the Decades
14 Aug 2013 Leave a comment
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(Source: Rolling Stone)
by Andy Greene
Elton John has more famous songs than just about any other man on the planet, but somehow his very first hit, “Your Song,” has proved to be his most enduring composition. The song exploded onto radio in 1970 and really hasn’t left. “I wrote it when I was 17, hence the extraordinary virginal sentiments,” Bernie Taupin said. “It’s a gem. It’s like a good dog, always there . . . I’ve heard it sung a million times.”
He’s exaggerating only slightly. Elton has performed “Your Song” at nearly every one of his concerts over the past 43 years. It’s often the final encore, though he opens many of his solo acoustic shows with it. Setlist.FM says he’s played it 1,861 times, but the real number is surely well over 2,000. Assuming it’s only 2,000 times, that means he’s spent five and a half days of his life singing “Your Song.”
Here’s an incredible video montage of Elton performing the song from 1970 through the late 1990s. It’s great fun to watch his hair begin to thin, get covered up by hats, go gray, and then magically come back fuller and browner than ever. The costumes become more and more elaborate, until they disappear completely in the Nineties. His voice also deepens, particular after major throat problems in 1986, but he never half-asses the performance.
Rocket Man, as Interpreted by William Shatner and Parodied by Chris Elliott
22 Apr 2013 Leave a comment
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Above: Hosting the 1978 Saturn Awards (Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror’s Academy Awards equivalent) Star Trek’s Captain Kirk performs Elton John’s “Rocket Man”, introduced by none other than the song’s co-writer Bernie Taupin (doing his best to look “truly proud”).
Below: Chris Elliott, in an appearance on Letterman, parodies not only the performance but Shatner’s perceived status in the 70’s as acting has-been. Elliott’s TV series Get a Life had recently been cancelled.
Elton John/Miss Piggy Duet 1977
07 Jan 2013 Leave a comment
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Some things just seem kinda weird 35 years later–like Miss Piggy saying, “Eat your heart out, Kiki.”