"cover shows John in a Jaguar XK140 FHC. The album was released on 16 October 1978 by MCA in America, and by Rocket in the UK. Singles from the album were ""Part-Time Love"", October 1978; ""Song for Guy"", November 1978; and ""Return to Paradise"", 1979. ""Song for Guy"" was a near-global success, charting high everywhere except the US and Canada, where John's label, MCA Records, did not feel that it had hit potential, in spite of the recent success of the instrumental ""Music Box Dancer"". ""A Single Man"" was John's first album ever to be officially released in the former"
"by many to be a classic example of album-filler. I Don't Care (Elton John song) ""I Don't Care"" is the third track off the 1978 Elton John album ""A Single Man. The lyrics were written by Gary Osborne. I Don't Care is notable for being one of the fastest paced songs of the album. It starts with a bluesy piano pattern, with the rhythm section kicking off after the first line is played. The chorus is backed by female vocalists, singing it in style with one of John's most loved genres, gospel. The electric guitar features a heavily used phaser-effect"
"A Single Man (album) A Single Man, released in 1978, is the twelfth studio album release for Elton John. It is the first album where Gary Osborne replaced Bernie Taupin as lyricist. It is also the only Elton John album to not have any tracks co-written by Bernie Taupin on the original cut. ""A Single Man"" is the first of John's albums to not include lyricist Bernie Taupin, and the first since his debut ""Empty Sky"" without producer Gus Dudgeon. The returning members of his band are percussionist Ray Cooper and guitarist Davey Johnstone; the latter played on only one"
"I Don't Care (Elton John song) ""I Don't Care"" is the third track off the 1978 Elton John album ""A Single Man. The lyrics were written by Gary Osborne. I Don't Care is notable for being one of the fastest paced songs of the album. It starts with a bluesy piano pattern, with the rhythm section kicking off after the first line is played. The chorus is backed by female vocalists, singing it in style with one of John's most loved genres, gospel. The electric guitar features a heavily used phaser-effect that gives the song a spacy feel. After the"
"keys of A minor and D major, the song starts with an evocative harp introduction augmented by natural guitar harmonics. Conductor and orchestral arranger Paul Buckmaster's use of strings, harp, oboe, and horn set a plaintive and haunting mood. Though originally using harp as the primary instrumental accompaniment, Elton in his live sets primarily replaced it with the piano. Despite not being a hit, the song was performed live in 1970, 1971, 1989, 1995, and subsequent solo tours, the last performances of the song included Ray Cooper on percussion in 2009. It was also performed as a duet by John"
"Madness (Elton John song) ""Madness"" is a song by Elton John with lyrics by Gary Osborne. It is the ninth track off his 1978 album, ""A Single Man"". The song fades in from the previous track on the album ""Shooting Star"". The rhythm section is driven by a disco-esque 4/4 beat, and in the middle of the song, a string section is featured giving it a more modern feel. John also sings in a high falsetto range in the choruses. Towards the end of the song, the song gets more and more chaotic, fitting with the lyrics. The song fades"
"doomed relationships, unrequited love, and hurt also suited Elton's own fragile state."" The song "","" by Elton John with lyrics by Bernie Taupin, appears as a bonus track — the 15th track — on Elton John's 1978 album ""A Single Man"". Despite the liveliness of the melody, the unhappy lyrics by Bernie Taupin were written near Taupin's divorce from Feibelman during the sessions for the album Blue Moves, and along with songs on that album it reflects the Taupin's moods in full marital crisis. "","" a song by Elton John with lyrics by Bernie Taupin, is the 14th track (a"
"""A Single Man"", because it was recorded during those sessions. When the album was released as a CD in the 1980s, the track breaks were incorrect. The first 45 seconds of ""Spotlight"" was part of the previous track, and similar errors occurred in other tracks. In 2003, the album was reissued in a digitally remastered format, with those problems corrected. In ranking all of John's studio albums, Matt Springer of Ultimate Classic Rock placed the album at the bottom of the list. Victim of Love (album) Victim of Love, released in 1979, is the thirteenth studio album release for Elton"
"Man"", which had first appeared as the B-side to ""All You Need Is Love"", in June 1967; ""Only a Northern Song"", a Harrison composition originally recorded during sessions for ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band""; and ""Hey Bulldog"". Written by Lennon, this last track was cut from the film before it opened in the US. ""Hey Bulldog"" was restored for the US theatrical and home video reissue in 1999. The four new songs used on the soundtrack album were not considered of high enough quality for appearance on a ""regular"" Beatles album. The film's instrumental music was an orchestral score"
"bonus track) on the remastered edition of Elton John's 1978 album ""A Single Man"", and was released as B-side to ""Part-time Love."" This song was written and recording during sessions for the ""Blue Moves"" album, when Taupin was struggling with the breakdown of his marriage to Feibelman. A noted biographer says that at that time ""[e]veryone was coming unglued. Taupin, his wife ... it's there, all the pain in every line. I mean check out even the words to 'I Cry at Night.'"" Elton John credited Feibelman, as his band's seamstress, with starting him on the road toward his distinct"
"song topped the ""RPM"" Top Singles chart, giving John his 12th chart-topper in that country. The song describes someone ending a relationship due to not feeling exclusive and important to their partner. The song was regularly played by John in concert during the 1990s, before he retired it in 2000. There is also a 12"" extended remix single of the song by Shep Pettibone released on vinyl during the song's initial release period. This remix appears on the CD box set compilation, ""To Be Continued..."", released in 1990. The ""Just-Elton-and-His-piano"" mix of the song is also available (on the reissued"
"John's 1978 LP, ""A Single Man"". Though not noted on the CD, the mixes of ""Are You Ready for Love,"" ""Mama Can't Buy You Love"" and ""Three Way Love Affair"" are not the Elton and Clive Frank remixes from 1979, but the original 1977 Thom Bell mixes. ""Are You Ready for Love,"" for example, now includes Bobby Smith and John Edwards of The Spinners singing the second verse instead of Elton, among other more subtle differences. The original EP remixes of the songs would later re-surface on the 'CD2' edition of Elton's 1992 single for ""The Last Song""; an edited"
"a double A-side with ""Healing Hands"". The double A-side record topped the UK chart for five weeks starting 23 June 1990, becoming the first solo #1 UK hit of Elton John's career. Musically, the song is complex, with the intro and verses in the key of B flat, and the chorus in the key of D. An instrumental solo, in the related minor key of g (minor), serves as a bridge. Rob Stevens also sang the song on his debut album, ""Little Heart for Love"". Healing Hands (Elton John song) ""Healing Hands"" was the final Billboard Hot 100 hit single"
"Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding ""Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding"" is the opening track on the double album ""Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"" by Elton John. The first part, ""Funeral for a Friend"", is an instrumental created by John while thinking of what kind of music he would like at his funeral. This first half segues into ""Love Lies Bleeding"". In the Eagle Vision documentary, ""Classic Albums: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"", John said the two songs were not written as one piece, but fit together since ""Funeral for a Friend"" ends in the key of A, and ""Love Lies"
"out as John screams the lyrics. This song deals with problems of the world, and there are many references to fires and catastrophes. The chaotic orchestration and melody illustrates that very well. There are also poverty and war issues mentioned, and a world that just doesn't understand peace. It has also been stated that the song was about the conflict in Northern Ireland. Madness (Elton John song) ""Madness"" is a song by Elton John with lyrics by Gary Osborne. It is the ninth track off his 1978 album, ""A Single Man"". The song fades in from the previous track on"
"All Quiet on the Western Front (song) ""All Quiet on the Western Front"" is a song by Elton John with lyrics by Bernie Taupin. It is the closing track of his 1982 album, ""Jump Up!"". It was also released as a single in the UK without charting. It is an anti-war song about World War I, and could easily have been influenced by the book of the same name. The song also ends in a big orchestral finale including a church organ chord sequence played by James Newton-Howard on a synthesizer, which could be reminiscent of his earlier album closers"
"Rain"". Avenged Sevenfold's M. Shadows lists the song among the ten songs that helped shape how he relates to music. Jean Grand-Maître choreographed a ballet for the Alberta Ballet called ""Love Lies Bleeding"". Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding ""Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding"" is the opening track on the double album ""Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"" by Elton John. The first part, ""Funeral for a Friend"", is an instrumental created by John while thinking of what kind of music he would like at his funeral. This first half segues into ""Love Lies Bleeding"". In the Eagle Vision documentary, ""Classic"
"others. Until 1970, he played acoustic piano exclusively. The final album on which he played acoustic piano in the regular sequence was ""The Awakening"". In the 1970s, he played electric piano as well; one such recording was an instrumental recording of ""Suicide is Painless,"" the theme song from the 1970 film ""MASH"", which was released on a 1973 reissue of the film's soundtrack album, replacing the original vocal version of the song by The Mash. It was rumored that the Rhodes piano was a gift from someone in Switzerland. He continued to play throughout the 1970s and 1980s, mostly in"
"Part-Time Love ""Part-Time Love"" is a song written by Elton John with lyrics by Gary Osborne. It is the sixth track off his 1978 album, ""A Single Man"". It is also the opening track of side two. It proved to be one of the most popular singles the pair wrote, along with 1982's ""Blue Eyes"" and the 1980 US million seller ""Little Jeannie"". It was banned in the Soviet release of the album along with another song, ""Big Dipper"". The single reached #15 in the UK and peaked just outside the Top 20 in the U.S. at #21. In the"
"""Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"". Harmony (Elton John song) ""Harmony"" is a song written by Bernie Taupin and Elton John that was originally released by Elton John on his 1973 album ""Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"". In the U.S. it was released as the B-side of the ""Bennie and the Jets"" single in 1974, and in the U.K. it was recorded in May 1973, at Château d'Hérouville, France.it was released as a single in 1980 with ""Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters"" on the B-side. It has also been covered by many artists, including Diana Ross, Zac Brown Band and Jesse Malin. On"
"""A Single Man"") without lyricist Bernie Taupin. Apart from an appearance on the Australian television series ""Countdown"" (he was also a comedy regular on the show during the 1980s), John did little marketing for ""Victim of Love"". He did not tour to promote the album, and has never played any of its songs live. It is also the only studio album in John's discography from which none of the songs has been performed on stage. ""Strangers"", the B-side of the single of the album's title track, appeared as a bonus track on the 1998 Mercury reissue of John's previous album,"
"vocal songs which also featured instrumental passages (""Third Line"", ""Last Detail"" and ""Black Pearl""). ""A Song for You"" is the shortest song on the album, and is a more conventional pop song. This was released as a single in Europe, with an edited version of ""Chappaqua"" as the B-side. ""Chappaqua"" was issued as an A-side in its own right in some territories (backed by ""Whirligig""), and was a B-side again to ""Give Some More"" in 1977/78. Produced by Elton John's producer Gus Dudgeon, the album had a crisper sound than ""Solution"" and ""Divergence"". This trend was continued on the following"
"with a similar subject matter). These sound effects merge into ""Disconnected,"" a rather alienating piece dealing with the American consumerist society. It features Tate on sax again. The subsequent ""Lady Jane"" deals with the similar theme of the influence of commercials. It is a heavy ballad featuring DeGarmo on piano and another twin solo. ""My Global Mind"" is another more straightforward rock song dealing with globalization. After that, ""One More Time"" is an acoustic rocker, with lyrics much in the vein of the title track. The album's final track, ""Someone Else?"", features just Tate on vocals and DeGarmo on piano."
"The Last Song (Elton John song) ""The Last Song"" is the second single from Elton John's 1992 album, ""The One"". It was composed by John, with lyrics provided by Bernie Taupin. ""The Last Song"" marked the first of John's American singles to benefit his AIDS foundation. Taupin faxed the lyrics to him in Paris, shortly after Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury died the previous year. ""I was crying all the time as I wrote the music"", John told ""The Advocate"", ""and it was very hard for me to sing it"". The song tells of an estranged father coming to terms"
"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (song) ""Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"" is a ballad performed by musician Elton John. Lyrics for the song were written by Bernie Taupin and the music composed by John for his album ""Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"". Its musical style and production was heavily influenced by 1970s soft rock. It was widely praised by critics, and some critics have named it John's best song. The song was released in 1973 as the album's second single and entered the Top Ten in both the United Kingdom and the United States. It was one of John's biggest hits, and surpassed"
"character to the individual pieces on ""Sun Ship"". ""Love"" and ""Serenity"" are both free-form pieces with no fixed tempo or chord progression in the traditional jazz sense. ""Consequences"" is a high-intensity, up tempo piece that closely resembles the title track from ""Sun Ship"", with a theme consisting only of a brief, repetitive staccato phrase, and with an ""extreme"" solo from Coltrane featuring altissimo-register playing and multiphonics. In addition to the five movements of the suite, the album also includes an alternate version of ""Joy"" which was recorded on September 22, 1965. This track is the last known recording of the"
"Original Sin (Elton John song) ""Original Sin"" is a song composed and interpreted by Elton John, the text is the work of Bernie Taupin. It is the third and last single extracted from the album ""Songs from the West Coast"" (a return to the origins of the musical career of Elton and the period of the seventies). This is a slow song with a sweet and melancholy melody, focused on Elton's piano playing and featuring Rusty Anderson on guitars and producer Patrick Leonard on keyboards. Carrying the rhythm is Paul Bushnell, and Matt Chamberlain playing the drums with Jay Bellerose"
"The album also features a sole instrumental track, ""Saturday Night and Sunday Morning"", which recalls the jazz-influenced instrumentals featured on his first two albums, ""Face Value"" and ""Hello, I Must Be Going"". As the title suggests, the album is a change of pace from the lighter tone of Collins's previous work. Collins expanded his focus to the exploration of socio-economic and political themes. There is emotional turmoil underneath the polished studio production and many of the songs are unambiguous and unveiled in their melancholy. While incorporating political themes, ""...But Seriously"" does not abandon the theme of relationships. But unlike some"
"the Roland RD-1000 digital piano. Eric Clapton sings a duet with John for this track. Clapton takes the main singing part and improvised a couple guitar solos while recording. The song is in the key of G minor. For the studio recordings, Clapton used a capo on the third guitar fret, but never used it for live performances when John and Clapton went on tour in 1992. The song was released in July 1992 as the third single of Elton John's studio album ""The One"" and from the ""Lethal Weapon 3"" soundtrack. Then, it was available for several European countries."
"on Duke Ellington and Paul Francis Webster's ""I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)"" are ""barely audible"" as she sings ""... I... can't... live without him."" ""I Got It Bad"" is followed by a cover of John Frederick Coots and Haven Gillespie's 1933 popular song ""You Go to My Head"". Mike Finnigan performs the Hammond organ solo on ""A Sunday Kind of Love"" and throughout the album, filling the gap between blues and jazz music. Closing the album are Sammy Cahn and Saul Chaplin's ""If It's the Last Thing I Do"", and Alice Cooper's ""Only Women Bleed"". James had"
"recording of the harmonies has been adjusted. John has admitted that it was, in fact, Bernie's idea to have the song solely piano and voice. This was the first song since ""Breaking Hearts (Ain't What It Used to Be)"" to use Elton's piano only. The Bridge (Elton John song) ""The Bridge"" is a song from Elton John's 2006 album ""The Captain & the Kid"". It is a simple, stripped-down production focused on John and his piano, with sparse further accompaniment. This is the first song since the title track of ""Breaking Hearts"" with this arrangement. The song, which was only"
"It gives me a certain amount of satisfaction."" The album concludes with ""King Kong"", a piece in 3/8, although the instrumental's prelude, a free jazz improvisation over a rhythm section playing in a 5/8 time signature, occurs much earlier in the album. Six variations of the melody appear as the album's finale, with the first establishing its simple melody, the second being a Fender Rhodes Electric Piano solo by Preston, the third showcasing a saxophone solo by Motorhead Sherwood, and the fourth featuring Bunk Gardner playing a soprano saxophone through various electronic effects that emulate the sound of a contrabassoon"
"tribute album """". Someone Saved My Life Tonight ""Someone Saved My Life Tonight"" is an Elton John song from his album ""Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy."" The song concludes side one of the album's narrative, chronicling the early history of John and lyricist, Bernie Taupin, and their struggles to find their place within the music industry. When released as the album's only single in 1975, it was the first to ever enter at the highest position in the history of music on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and entered the top 25 on the UK Singles Chart. In the"