‘Jump Up!’: The Elton John album Bernie Taupin thought was “awful”
“Terrible.”
Bernie Taupin
‘Daniel’: How Elton John captured an American soldier’s reality of the Vietnam War
“Down home country guys”.
“Quite experimental”: Elton John on the most challenging album to play
Testing the limits of his sound.
“It’s the closest we ever got”: The song Elton John wanted to sound like The Drifters
A contemporary ode to soul.
“Morbidly obsessed”: the devastating story behind Elton John’s ‘Song for Guy’
“Imagining myself dying.”
The one song Elton John never gets tired of: “Something magical about it”
The humble beginnings of the piano legend.
“That enjoyment has never changed”: Why doesn’t Elton John write his own lyrics?
“I’m quite happy not to.”
The horrific recording Bernie Taupin thought fuelled ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’: “It was preordained”
Turning near-tragic to triumph.
The “disposable pop” song that Elton John and Bernie Taupin wanted to disown
“There’s a certain element of our music that is disposable” – Bernie Taupin.
