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Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, January 1973
Elton John is a fast worker. He just about has to be because he allows himself only ten days to write and rehearse all the ...
Review by Gene Sculatti, Creem, August 1982
REMEMBER THE 70's? Not much of a decade, you say. Yeah, well. Fella here used to be a mover and a shaker back in the ...
Audio interviews
Interview by Rick McGrath, Mike Quigley, Rock's Backpages Audio, 22 April 1971
Elton chats backstage about doing interviews; the Friends soundtrack and the 17-11-70 live album; on being hyped and the hype machine; doing TV with Andy Williams; on why he likes Canada; on Liberace; on his own style, and his hero worship of Leon Russell.
File format: mp3; file size: 11.7mb, interview length: 27' 56" sound quality: **½
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Interview by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 18 April 1970
PEOPLE ARE too serious in this business is the conclusion presented by Elton John. Elton and Bernie Taupin composed 'Border Song', which is receiving wide ...
Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 25 April 1970
IT'S NICE TO see Cat Stevens and Elton John providing the British answer to Neil Young, and Van Morrison. And make no mistake, Elton is ...
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 26 September 1970
AL KOOPER, talking about Elton John's last album: "That album's really got me screwed up. It's just the perfect album, and I carry it around ...
Elton John, Fotheringay: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Jerry Gilbert, Penny Valentine, Sounds, 10 October 1970
PUTTING ELTON John second billing to Fotheringay at the Royal Albert Hall on Friday night was a taste of mistaken booking if ever there was ...
Elton John: The Great White Hope
Profile and Interview by Penny Valentine, Sounds, 17 October 1970
CALL ELTON John what you will. The most brilliant singer/pianist we have ever produced, one of the best artists on record or on stage you ...
Report and Interview by Robert Greenfield, Rolling Stone, 12 November 1970
LONDON – "If this is the revolution, why are the drinks so fucking expensive," someone has written on the wall in the toilet of London's ...
Review by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, 12 November 1970
GIVEN THAT HIS voice combines the nasal sonority of James Taylor with the rasp of Van Morrison with the slurry intonation of M. Jagger with ...
Interview by Jacoba Atlas, Circus, December 1970
ELTON JOHN played the Troubadour in Los Angeles and overnight became an industry superstar. Public relations people, having no personal or professional claim to the ...
Elton Sings 'Your Song' and Finds Himself New Star of the 70s
Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 19 December 1970
ELTON JOHN is a pianist, singer, songwriter and newfound hero of musicians and music lovers alike. Bob Dylan came to see him one night and ...
Elton John: Tumbleweed Connection
Review by Penny Valentine, Sounds, 1971
IT IS ALL too easy to go overboard with praise about Elton John. I am guilty of doing it – frequently. But then, when faced ...
Elton John: The Record Rise Of A Superstar Called Reg
Essay by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 1971
IN APRIL 1970 an album was released that was to whisk Reg Dwight of Pinner into Elton John. It was, quite simply, titled Elton John, ...
Looney Tunes: The Myth of the Vicious Circle
Essay by Dave Marsh, Creem, March 1971
ROCK AND roll began in a twilight zone, a pure thing swirling in out of a pretty pristine void. That it grew from blues and ...
This Is Your Song: The Elton John Interview
Interview by Rick McGrath, Mike Quigley, The Georgia Straight, 11 April 1971
WE ENTER THE Holiday Inn on Howe Street through its Southern-fried colonnade and up its Harlequin Romance staircase into the Columbia Room with its Christmas ...
Audio transcript of interview by Rick McGrath, Mike Quigley, Rock's Backpages, 22 April 1971
This is a transcription of Mike & Rick's audio interview with Elton, conducted in Vancouver. Listen to the audio of this interview. (Note that due to ...
Elton John: How fat Reg lost lbs, and won dollars
Profile and Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 8 May 1971
ELTON JOHN USED TO BE A FAT GUY CALLED REG WHO FELT INFERIOR. HE COULDN'T WEAR 'NICE CLOTHES'. IN GROUPS HE WASN'T ALLOWED TO SING. ...
Elton John: Carnegie Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 12 June 1971
Solo, or With Group, Elton John Thrills Carnegie Audiences ...
Interview by Dick Meadows, Sounds, 7 August 1971
"I DON'T always want to be known as Elton John's drummer and nothing else. I owe that man so much, but it would be nice ...
Elton John: Madman Across The Water (DJM)
Review by Penny Valentine, Sounds, 30 October 1971
IT'S AN ODD fact that the British tend to malign their own products to the point of insanity. We managed to ignore Joe Cocker, almost ...
Bernie Taupin: The B-Side of Elton John
Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, February 1972
The offices of DJM records in new Oxford Street give the feeling of being a shrine to the glory of Elton John. Button-size stickers are ...
Elton John: Start of a New Era
Interview by Penny Valentine, Sounds, 26 February 1972
MIDNIGHT ON Monday evening and in his luxury ranch-style house in Surrey, where the carpet grows deep and the huge knife-edged plants threaten to eat ...
Step Right Up And Feel The Man’s Muscles: Honky Chateau
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Cream, June 1972
THESE DAYS you have to get fashionable before you get successful or else you get resented, and, if you get too successful without first being ...
Live Review by Dan Nooger, The Village Voice, 19 October 1972
ON THE CUTTING EDGE ...
Elton John: Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Piano Player (DJM)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 27 January 1973
WELL, WHADAYA know – another fine Elton John album. Despite sneers, calumny and general foulness, the former Reg just keeps on writin', playin', singin' and ...
Elton John: They Laughed When He Played The Piano
Retrospective by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 3 February 1973
FOR MANY MOONS it has been ever-so-chic to take pokes at Elton John. To admit to a considerable admiration for the man and his work ...
The Fightin' Side of Elton John
Interview by Danny Holloway, New Musical Express, 17 February 1973
ELTON JOHN SITS cornered on his sumptuous settee, talking about the comic strip character he portrays. And as if to emphasise the image, he's wearing ...
Elton John: Sundown, Edmonton, London
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 31 March 1973
I WAS counting the number of fainting chicks pulled up out of the audience. After the 38th, I gave up. ...
Elton John: Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player
Review by John Pidgeon, Let It Rock, April 1973
THE ONLY SUPERFICIAL sign of the album's French origin is its title, a contrary translation of Truffaut's film Tirez Sur Le Pianiste. Truffaut's pianist was ...
What do Bowie, Elton, and Mantovani have in common?
Interview by Harold Bronson, Music World, 1 June 1973
I DON'T KNOW why so many of the stars take up residence at Hollywood's Chauteau Marmont Hotel on the Sunset Strip. Perhaps it's because of ...
The Rolling Stone Interview: Elton John
Interview by Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 16 August 1973
ELTON JOHN wanted to do The Rolling Stone Interview when we first suggested it to him in February. A grueling British tour kept him occupied ...
Elton John, Sutherland Brothers and Quiver: Oakland Coliseum, Oakland CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 11 September 1973
Magnificent Ham and a Musical Genius ...
Report by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 15 September 1973
THE DAY Starship One landed in Hollywood it effused a trace of the old redolence and affaced just a little of the Hollywood myth. The ...
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 15 September 1973
Elton John: The Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles ...
Elton John: Madison Square Garden, New York
Live Review by Ian Dove, The New York Times, 25 September 1973
Elton John Subdues "Side Issue" Tactics; Fans Provide Extras ...
Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 29 September 1973
AND HELLO Elton John all set to smash a path to the top of the album chart with this superb new collecion of songs. He ...
Elton John at the Hollywood Bowl - July 1973
Live Review by David Rensin, Rolling Stone, 11 October 1973
THE HOUSE LIGHTS dimmed and a lonely spot picked out a single figure onstage. ...
Profile and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Phonograph Record, November 1973
AMERICA IS BEGINNING to recover now. The damage has been assessed, the injured have been treated, and the jangled buzzing has started to fade from ...
Elton John Steps Into Christmas
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 24 November 1973
ELTON JOHN is a happy man as 1973 draws to a close. He has established himself not merely as an elitist's delight and king of ...
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road — Elton John Rockets Over The Rainbow
Interview by Stephen Demorest, Circus, December 1973
Running up against Evil Alice and The Rolling Stones, the good spell-caster fights to be head wizard in the Emerald City of rock. ...
Elton John: The Leaving Of America
Interview by Arthur Levy, Zoo World, 6 December 1973
Beau Brummel Meets Yogi Berra ...
Elton John: Belle Vue, Manchester
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 8 December 1973
FOR THE first time since Bill Haley's motion picture triumph Rock Around The Clock, played at the now-demolished Queen's Cinema, Catford, in 1956, the urge ...
Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, January 1974
REMEMBER WHEN the Stones and Beatles were English bands? If you do then it's just barely, because both ceased being foreign bands years ago, somewhere ...
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 26 January 1974
THERE WAS a curious smell in the Belle Vue Hall, Manchester. ...
Fashion: The Politics of Flash
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 6 April 1974
NICK KENT traces the Rise and Fall of The Satin Jacket...and generally walks it like he talks it into the land of 'Rock Chic.' ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 15 June 1974
Take a holiday, Elton. Take two. ...
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 15 June 1974
IS IT AS GOOD as Yellow Brick Road? That will be the cry, where 'ere Elton John fans congregate and exchange notes. ...
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 6 July 1974
OL' COCONUT Bonce is back. Elton Schmelton himself in the too, too solid flesh, still opening up interview sessions by walking into the room at ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, August 1974
For an artist with distinct limitations – vocal, compositional, and stylistic – Elton John makes awfully good records. One of the reasons is his avowed ...
Elton John: Caribou (MCA-2116)
Review by Tom Nolan, Rolling Stone, 15 August 1974
Maestro of Mediocrity ...
Elton John: Ms. Streisand & The Pants of John
Report and Interview by Richard Cromelin, New Musical Express, 30 November 1974
LOS ANGELES. – It was a busy week for Elton John: a couple of hours in the DJ chair at KMET radio, a tennis game ...
Elton John: Greatest Hits; Randy Newman: Good Old Boys; Pete Atkin: Secret Drinker
Review by Simon Frith, Let It Rock, January 1975
Randy Newman’s album starts:‘Last night I saw Lester Maddox on a TV showwith some smartass New York Jewand the Jew laughed at Lester MaddoxAnd the ...
Elton John: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by John Tobler, ZigZag, January 1975
THE SUBJECT OF this piece is a man who could justly be called one of ZigZag's favourite people, Elton John. ...
Elton's Tour Ends: Tears, Lennon and Whatever Gets You Through the Night
Report by Ed McCormack, Rolling Stone, 2 January 1975
NEW YORK — Elton John's opening words to the audience at Madison Square Garden were: "Hello, New York! Happy Thanksgiving!" ...
Elton John: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 4 January 1975
MAYBE IT WAS the pre-Christmas spirit or the entire packet of chocolate I had just consumed, but a lump rase in my throat during the ...
Elton John: "It's Not All Down To Elton..."
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 11 January 1975
...he's just part of a band'. And that's the way Elton John's always wanted it, drummer Nigel Olsson tells CHRIS WELCH, in a rare behind-the-scenes ...
The Life And Times Of Elton John, part 1
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 22 February 1975
Part one: how the sand kicked in his face turned to gold-dust after all ...
Elton John, part 2: They Laughed When I Stood Up To Play The Piano
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 1 March 1975
NME: Earlier, you said that when you first met Taupin his lyrics were somewhat influenced by the Flower Power fad. It was a period when ...
Elton John: Baileys Club, Watford
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 1 March 1975
THEY DON'T strike medals for rock stars — do they? A pity, because E. John, singer and songwriter of this parish, deserved some kind of ...
Singles from Elton John, David Bowie et al
Review by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 1 March 1975
Elton gets lost ...
Elton John part 3: Maybe It's Because I'm A Socialist…
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 8 March 1975
TELL US, El, what is Rock all about? Having a bloody good time. When I was a kid and went to see those Larry Parnes-Billy ...
Elton John: Elton's Bitter Sweet Album
Report and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 10 May 1975
Chris Charlesworth in New York previews Elton John's new album Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy – and talks to the man himself... ...
Elton John: Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy
Review by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, June 1975
THE TIME HAS come to acknowledge just how big Elton John has become. His preeminence has come to pass so gradually that the present magnitude ...
Elton John: Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (MCA); Wings: Venus And Mars (Capitol)
Review by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 June 1975
Two Instant Hit Packages Full of Extra Goodies ...
Elton John: I Want To Chug, Not Race
Interview by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 21 June 1975
IN AMSTERDAM LAST WEEK, while canals evaporated in the heat wave, eight musicians and three singers were stirring the sluggish air with an electric sound ...
Elton & Company Seduce Wembley
Report by Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 31 July 1975
LONDON — "An English audience is like a good fuck," Glenn Frey of the Eagles explained earnestly in a trailer-cum-dressing room behind Wembley Stadium. "You ...
A Million Dollar Friendship: An Interview with Gus Dudgeon
Interview by Jon Tiven, Circus Raves, August 1975
NARY A POTENTIOMETER breathed a word at the Caribou Ranch high in the Rocky Mountains. And the baffles relaxed as the massive array of equipment ...
Elton John: Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (MCA)
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, August 1975
IT WASN'T UNTIL I watched a black restaurant worker make it through his shift singing ‘Bennie and the Jets’ to himself that I began to ...
Interview by Jon Tiven, International Musician & Recording World, October 1975
Jon Tiven talks to Gus Dudgeon about Elton, Bowie and recording in general. ...
Elton John: Rock Of The Westies
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 25 October 1975
FACT: ELTON JOHN is one of the nicest people ever to touch ground while walking. ...
Elton John: Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy
Review by John Tobler, ZigZag, November 1975
THIS IS PROBABLY the latest review you've read of the record under scrutiny. Having read several other reviews in various weekly and monthly publications, a ...
Elton John: Rock Of The Westies (MCA)
Review by Ben Edmonds, Phonograph Record, November 1975
It might seem ridiculous to contend that an artist was weakened by two albums which sold a higher number of copies than I can count ...
Elton John: Rock Of The Westies
Review by John Tobler, ZigZag, February 1976
IT DOESN'T SEEM long since the last EJ album, and in fact, it isn't, which I suppose is more fuel for the fire that says ...
Review by Mike Jahn, High Fidelity, February 1976
ROCK MUSIC, like basic black in fashion can hide a multitude of sins — such as poor lyrics. In rock that is played at any ...
Elton John: Ol' Four Eyes Is Back
Live Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 8 May 1976
Elton John: Grand Theatre, Leeds ...
Elton John: Here And There (DJM)
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 15 May 1976
DO NOT FEAR a rip-off, for this is a worthy selection of live performances from two major concerts which will long serve as a reminder ...
Elton John, Dave Mason, John Miles: Schaeffer Stadium, Boston
Live Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 17 July 1976
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS: The sheer pageantry of Elton John's Stars and Stripes bicentennial show here on Independence Day had the power alone to earn a standing ...
He Puts Words Into Elton John's Mouth
Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 8 August 1976
WHEN ELTON John takes the stage of Madison Square Garden Tuesday night in the first of an unprecedented seven shows there (long ago sold out), ...
Elton John: He's Got The Whole World In His Hands
Report and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 14 August 1976
THE WHOLE FAMILY was there. Mum, dad and three children all waited patiently by the elevators in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency hotel on ...
Elton John: Blue Moves (Rocket) ****
Review by Mick Brown, Sounds, 23 October 1976
EVEN BEFORE I'd heard one note of Blue Moves I had divined that this album was going to be the Big One. ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, November 1976
THIS ISN'T SO much a review as it is a personally conducted poll. You see, I've been traveling around with Elton (the new album, that ...
Review by John Tobler, ZigZag, December 1976
IN A REVIEW of one of Elton's earlier albums I wrote something to the effect that those who already liked Elton would inevitably enjoy that ...
The Real Elton John Stands Up - ‘Hoorah!’
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 18 December 1976
ELTON JOHN is 29. So am I. We both wear glasses and they make his eyes look pink and mine look piggily smaller than they ...
Elton John: Elton's Blue Moves
Interview by Wesley Strick, Circus, 17 January 1977
In One Era and Out Another ...
Elton John: Blue Moves (Rocket)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, February 1977
Elton Cops Some ZZZ's ...
Britain's Tax Exiles; Keeping a Piece of the Rock
Report by Simon Frith, The Village Voice, 28 March 1977
It's difficult to feel sorry for an exile whose alternative to an impoverished Britain is unfettered hedonism in the south of France. ...
John Reid, Elton John's Manager: "Welder's Son Who Built A Pop Empire"
Profile and Interview by Ed Jones, The Sunday Times, 8 May 1977
WHILE ELTON John was wowing the pearl-strung punters at last Monday's concert in aid of the Queen's Jubilee Appeal at the Rainbow Theatre, London, John ...
Elton John: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 14 May 1977
THE SOCIAL division between rock star and audience is usually more obvious than it was at the Rainbow last Monday night. ...
Motorhead, Mighty Diamonds et al: Singles Reviews
Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 25 June 1977
REVIEWED BY PAUL SIMENON (BASS) AND RODENT (ROADIE) OF THE CLASH. TRANSCRIPTIONS: GIOVANNI DADOMO (AMATEUR) ...
Report and Interview by Mick Brown, Rolling Stone, 30 June 1977
LONDON — "IT WAS so good to play in front of real people," Elton John said in his dressing room, looking tired but exultant after ...
Report by Fred Schruers, Circus, 16 March 1978
CIRCUS Invades Britain for a Classic Punk Clash ...
Interview by Fred Dellar, Sound International, May 1978
The producer's job is possibly one of the least-understood and most under-rated in the entire recording business. One usually thinks of a producer as providing ...
Singles: PiL, Cabaret Voltaire, X-Ray Spex, Chris Bell, The Cars et al
Review by Hugh Jarse, ZigZag, November 1978
PUBLIC IMAGE: 'Public Image' (Virgin) 'ELLO, A LOW-key re-emergence which grows on ya. I know everybody was expecting another anthem but here ya go, this ...
Elton John: Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London
Live Review by David Hancock, Evening News, London, 3 April 1979
Elton is still way ahead of the rest ...
Elton John: Concert in Central Park, September 1980
Live Review by Roy Trakin, Musician, January 1981
SOME PERFORMERS just don't know when to quit — and thank goodness for that. We followed tennis star Jimmy McEnroe into Central Park's Sheep Meadow ...
Elton John: Capital Centre, Landover MD
Live Review by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore Sun, 18 October 1984
Elton John offers finest of throwaway pop-rock ...
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Dwight
Interview by Chris Salewicz, Q, December 1986
Chris Salewicz meets the occupant of the Presidential Suite, Floor 30, Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles. "I’ve had my scrotum removed, and I'm having it ...
Elton John: You've got to laugh…
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, August 1988
There aren't many options when you're alleged to have cancer, be involved in scandalous sexual malpractices and your hotel room has been bugged by the ...
Elton John: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 24 May 1989
Battered and upright ...
Bernie Taupin: Elton's Write Hand Man
Interview by Steven P. Wheeler, Music Connection, August 1989
IT IS THE summer of 1989, six months of phone calls and patience have finally paid off. Bernie Taupin, the man who has been placing ...
Elton John: Great Western Forum, Los Angeles
Live Review by Steven P. Wheeler, Music Connection, September 1989
LIKE THE title of last year's album suggested, Reg is back. ...
Ray Cooper: Who Are Those Blokes Up There With Ray?
Profile and Interview by Robert Sandall, Q, October 1990
Wherever stellar rockular personages gather together he's there at the back, shiny of pate and blurred of hand. But who is this Bongo Basher By ...
Review by Mark Cooper, Q, November 1991
HITHERTO, TRIBUTE ALBUMS have tended to be the preserve of the American college circuit with R.E.M. seemingly ubiquitous as today's aspiring eccentrics queue up to ...
Interview by Philip Norman, Rolling Stone, 19 March 1992
Drugs, fame and alcohol turned him into a monster. Now, after rehab, he's clean, happy and in love. ...
Various Artists: The Freddie Mercury Tribute, Concert For Aids Awareness, Wembley Stadium, London
Live Review by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 2 May 1992
IT'S, UH, KINDA TRAGIC ...
Interview by Robert Sandall, Q, July 1992
The 25-year You-wash-I'll-dry relationship between Elton John and lyric-writing househusband Bernie Taupin has never been happier. ...
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, August 1992
Elton John returns with one great song, a few deft touches and some stodge. ...
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, April 1995
Especially Elton John. Cocaine seizures, Martini marathons, curry 'n' cockle blow-outs, condom-free congress, surprising marriages, violent evacuations, rent boys… he's had a few. But that ...
Elton John: My life with the Rocket man
Memoir by Caroline Boucher, The Observer, 30 June 1996
Katharine Hepburn in the swimming pool and Stevie Wonder locked in the loo. Just two more problems for Elton John's former PR, Caroline Boucher ...
Comment by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 12 September 1997
Elton John aside, pop's tributes to the Princess seem to be rather lacking in sincerity ...
Elton John: Sound Your Funky Horn
Interview by Cliff Jones, MOJO, October 1997
Elton John blows his own horn ...
Interview by Paul Zollo, Musician, January 1998
AS ELTON John's lyricist for three decades, Bernie Taupin is one of the most famous British songwriters of all time. ...
Twentieth Century Blues: The Songs Of Noel Coward
Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, May 1998
PAN-GENERATIONAL tribute to The Other Noel, benefiting International AIDS-prevention projects ...
Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida
Review by Eric Weisbard, The Village Voice, 7 April 1999
THESE SONGS, derived from an as-yet-unfinished musical that pops open the Verdi opera, are only putatively set in Egypt. ...
Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, October 2001
BACK TO basics, and partial return to form, on 28th studio album ...
How Sir Elton Recovered His Cool
Comment by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 2004
WHEN THE VERY first psychedelic rock star, William Blake, declared that the fool who persists in his folly shall become wise, he hit on a ...
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, December 2004
IT HAS BECOME an irritatingly common marketing ploy for any new release by a music veteran to be declared a "return to form". If we ...
All Star's Concert For T Bone Is Well Done
Live Review by Jim Sullivan, Boston Herald, 18 October 2010
I FIRST SAW T Bone Burnett in 1975 when he was 27 and one of the less-known musicians on Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour. ...
Elton John/Leon Russell: The Union
Review by Bud Scoppa, Uncut, November 2010
Elton reconnects with his original mentor, under the watchful eye of T Bone Burnett. And Neil Young guests! ...
Essay by John Lewis, Do Not Disturb, Summer 2011
How do the British address their cities in song? With bathos, pathos and a large helping of silliness, says John Lewis ...
Don't Shoot the Piano Player: Elton's Croc-Rock Reconsidered
Retrospective by Gene Sculatti, Rock's Backpages, 17 June 2013
FOR SOME REASON — most likely the much-reported news of his participation in the new Queens of the Stone Age album — I've lately found ...
Elton John: Rocket Man on a New Mission
Report and Interview by Andy Gill, The Independent, 13 September 2013
After serious illness, the star is back with his best album in years. He tells Andy Gill how he found a new lease of life. ...
Is There a "Gay Aesthetic" to Pop Music?
Comment by Geoffrey Himes, Smithsonian , 12 August 2015
From Elton John to Mika, the "glam piano" genre may be as integral to the Gay American experience as hip-hop and the blues are to ...
Madmen Across the Water: How Elton John (and Bernie Taupin) stormed the USA
Retrospective by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, April 2017
IN NOVEMBER 1970, Elton John performed an intimate concert at A&R Studios in New York, recorded for WABC FM. In front of 125 people, Elton ...
Elton John: Twickenham Stoop Stadium, TW2
Live Review by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 5 June 2017
The singer was back where he feels at most home – on stage, in sparkles, sitting sideways on a stool. ...
Neil Sedaka on Elton John and more
Retrospective and Interview by Graeme Thomson, Mail On Sunday, 10 June 2017
Elton John loved his songs so much that he rescued him from the recording wilderness. So why did Neil Sedaka, creator of 'Oh! Carol' and ...
Rocketman: Melody Maker Memories of Elton
Film/DVD/TV Review by Chris Charlesworth, Just Backdated, June 2019
MONDAYS ON Melody Maker were always a bit stressful for me. It was the day when we had to come up with a front-page lead story ...
see also Bernie Taupin
see also Bluesology
see also John Reid
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