Love, Bernie." Toni is Toni Russo, model, sister of Get Shorty's own Rene Russo, and Taupin's second wife. The 1983 album Too Low for Zero is credited to Elton John, but he let his loyal lyricist Bernie Taupin have the dedication: "Hey Toni, this one's from me to you. My immediate thing should have been 'Oh my god, he's tried to kill himself.' But I started laughing because he'd got the gas oven open, he was lying on a pillow and he'd opened all the windows." "And there's Elton lying on the floor with the gas oven open. Taupin added in Two Rooms that John's suicide attempt while they were flatmates also inspired "Someone Saved My Life Tonight." Taupin "smelt gas" one day, and went into the kitchen.
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I knew he was right," Elton explained, alluding to how he's now openly homosexual, "but I didn't know how to get out of it, so I just got drunk and went home and said I'm not getting married." In the notes for the John/Taupin tribute Two Rooms (via SongFacts), John explained, "I went out and got drunk with Long John Baldry and Bernie, and John said I shouldn't get married. Planning to marry, they moved into an apartment in North London and took in Taupin as a roommate. Michael Stipe told me it was the first film that really captured the spirit of what it feels like to perform live in front of an audience.In the late '60s, John was playing in musician Long John Baldry's band when he met a woman named Linda Woodrow at a club. Pete Townsend and Joni Mitchell attended our special outdoor orchestral screening at The Greek Theatre and were so moved by the film. So many of my fellow musicians and performing artists have been touched by ‘Rocketman’s’ authenticity and have reached out to tell me how much they related to it. “I’m thrilled the way the film has been received. “It was eerie seeing Taron play ‘Elton John.’ I felt like I was watching myself. “Even though it was a musical fantasy, ‘Rocketman’ perfectly captures the true spirit of the first half of my life,” he said. It really felt like a celebration.”Īs did “Rocketman,” which coincided last year with John’s ongoing “Farewell Yellow Brick Road” tour and the publication of his memoir, “Me” (Henry Holt). We all laughed a lot and loved the way our voices melded together.
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It’s like we had gone full circle from my founding days as a jobbing musician, to recording ‘(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again’ with Giles and Taron after having shot ‘Rocketman.’ Taron and I both recorded our vocals in the same session. “In my early jobbing musician days in the 1960s, I used to get regular session work (and luncheon vouchers!) from George Martin’s assistants Shirley Burns and Carol Weston at Air London. “It was very emotional and nostalgic for me as Giles Martin’s father, George, founded Air Studios. “We all met up at Air Studios in Hampstead in North London,” he said. It needed to be joyous! I then checked out the tempo of ‘Come See About Me’ by The Supremes for inspiration and built the melody from there.”Įlton John Andrew MacColl/REX/ShutterstockĪlthough John has done duets before (beginning with “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” with Kiki Dee in ’76), the experience with Egerton and producer Giles Martin (son of legendary Beatles producer George Martin) was a transcendent one. The melody just pours out of me when I’m enlightened by his poetic words. I immediately saw the lyrics as a Motown-style song. “Bernie’s lyrics are always like a bolt of lightning for me, full of cinematic and thematic inspiration. “Like most songs I have written, the melody came to me right away,” John said. The audience witnesses this during the “Your Song” scene from “Rocketman.” John absorbs the lyrics into his musical consciousness and out comes a melody within 15 minutes or so. And yet the way it evolved musically took Taupin by surprise: “Funnily enough, when I originally wrote it, I was writing it as a very simple Tom Waits kind of slow waltz shuffle, but Elton, as is his penchant, took it in a totally opposite direction,” he said.įor John, their collaboration has always been a mysterious alchemy - the attraction of opposites and a synergistic melding of the personal with the universal. “ is a telling line and getting Kryptonite into a song about redemption is somewhat fun!” Taupin said.
Praise the Saints that hung up on my wall “ The peaceful days that followed hollow nightsĪ kiss or touch could feel like Kryptonite His favorite lyric, though, invoked Superman:
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