![]() Fantastic was an easy thing to market and was selling well. I think a lot of people liked the old band - Nigel and Dee really had their fans - but I don’t regret Westies one instant. Here and There, the live album - a total fuckin’ disaster - was to finish off a contract and it’s done better than it deserved to, oh, about 860,000 copies. ![]() Elton, the marketing man: “ Fantastic did about 2.8 million. There was a decline in sales of his last two albums. I used to be terribly ‘moon’ and ‘June.’ I’ve encouraged Bernie to work with other composers too, why not?” I never had the emotion in me to get it to sound right, but I think it’s beginning to come. It’s very hard anyway.”īernie and Elton wrote the current Number One single under the names “Ann Orson” and “Carte Blanche,” with Elton for the first time doing part of the lyrics. I made a hasty phone call to Barbados and said, ‘Write a duet,’ and Taupin nearly died ’cause he’d never done one. I was messing around in the studio one day on the electric piano and came up with the title line. Have you included disco pop like “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart”? Melodically I attribute it to the Elton John album. I’m at that second one as far as recordings go, and hopefully I can cross it with Blue Moves. Every artist comes to the same crossroads and they either cross it or they don’t, and if they do they’re going to come to another crossroads. I remind him that five years ago he said nobody stays on top more than three years, and that he planned to quit working hard while he was ahead. Paul McCartney, Elton John, and Garth Brooks Will Be In 'This Is Spinal Tap' Sequel And he will be looking after the Watford Hornets Soccer Club of which he is a fan and the proud director. are putting together a fulllength cartoon feature of their autobiographical Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, and there is talk of his playing the title role in a projected film version of Candide, the recent Broadway musical. As he polishes off Blue Moves, a double album for November release, he will produce an album for Kiki Dee. ![]() After a dignified solo piano concert (“possibly in tails”) at the Edinburgh Cultural Festival September 17th, he says, he will resettle his house in Windsor, near London, and get down to a full plate. ![]() But now they’ll all be going off doing their own thing, forming their … I don’t know what they’ll be doing. I can foresee when I come back, we’ll get together again. On the other hand I might, but I don’t want them hanging on, or any restrictions around my neck. It’s silly keeping them under contract for a year, because, ah, I might never work again. I always do things by instinct and I just know it’s time to cool it I mean, who wants to be a 45-year-old entertainer in Las Vegas like Elvis?” Y’know, I feel really strange at this particular point in time. I’m definitely not retiring but I want to put my energies elsewhere for a while. It came to the point where I sang ‘Yellow Brick Road’ and I thought, ‘I don’t have to sing this anymore,’ and it made me quite happy inside.” He sighed and ran a finger along the coffee table edge. “It was a pretty weird night, a very sad occasion, I must say. Rolling Stone‘s #49 Greatest Artist of All Time: Elton John His show in Madison Square Garden the night before (August 17th), with its dancing bananas and flying trousers, was the big finish to a sellout 16-day swing through the East and, by report, marked his farewell to the road for a long time, maybe even for good. ![]() He rarely does interviews and when his eyes, behind blue-tinted glasses, look away, they reveal his discomfort. Elton John walked shyly into the corner room of his sprawling suite on the tenth floor of the Sherry-Nether-land Hotel in New York, delivered a bone-crushing handshake and assumed the middle of a white sofa. ![]()
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