Most artists in the mid seventies played guitar but Elton played piano and I dreamed of being able to play like him. She said, “I remember buying this when it came out as a single…I couldn’t stop playing it – I loved it so much. Kate Bush, who recorded the song for the 1991 Two Rooms tribute album to John and Taupin, said this is her favorite song of all time. The song has also been interpreted as a commentary on “how rock stars are isolated…from the real world.” SF “John’s melody underscores the words with a melancholy, wistful tone, while the production brings in a light element of futuristic sheen, never abandoning that fragile, perfect melody.” UCR Rocket Man Elton John Elton John’s collaborator Bernie Taupin provided the lyrics for this classic hit, inspired by the short story The Rocket Man by Ray Bradburyand possibly space missions occurring in the early 1970s when it was released. Taupin “emphasize the personal over the sci-fi” UCR with lyrics about the astronaut’s wife packing his bags and how Mars isn’t the kind of place to raise your kids. Related: This song features on our list of the best songs about space. SF Taupin shaped a story of “a man who is sent to live in space as part of a scientific experiment.” SF The Mars-bound astronaut is conflicted about leaving home. That song took the perspective of “a child can no longer look at the stars after his astronaut father perishes in space. That story also inspired the 1970 song “Rocket Man” by Pearls Before Swine, which Taupin acknowledged as an influence. The story “is told from the perspective of a child, whose astronaut father has mixed feelings at leaving his family in order to do his job.” SF Instead, he said he was inspired by the short story “The Rocket Man” in the 1951 anthology The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury. Both songs were “about a lonely dude drifting through space,” UCR but Bernie Taupin, who wrote the words to Elton’s song, said it wasn’t an influence. The song traversed similar territory to David Bowie’s “Space Oddity,” released three years earlier. The album was preceded by lead single “Rocket Man,” which became Elton John’s second top-10 hit in both the United States and UK. When I compared notes with my friends at recess Monday morning, there was unanimous agreement that Elton must be talking about the newly introduced Pop-A-Matic. I was six years old when I misheard this lyric on WRKO 680 AM in Boston. Honky Château was Elton John’s fourth top-10 album in the United States and first in a run of six platinum-selling chart-toppers. Original Lyrics: I'm not the man they think I am at home. Atlanta rapper Young Thug’s 2018 song, High, sampled the Elton John classic while adding new rap verses. Peak: 6 US, 11 CB, 6 HR, 39 AC, 1 CL, 2 UK, 8 CN, 13 AU, 1 DF It’s not the first recent song to reimagine Rocket Man. Writer(s): Elton John, Bernie Taupin ( see lyrics here) And I'm gonna be high as a kite by then I miss the Earth so much, I miss my wife It's lonely out in space On such a timeless. Lyrics aside, it’s a lovely song with a high flying (literally) chorus. I send my best wishes to ESA and all the crew, and my thanks for keeping those boyhood dreams alive.Rocket Man (I Think It’s Gonna Be a Long Time) Verse 1 She packed my bags last night, pre-flight Zero hour, 9 a.m. “Now, 40 years later, it’s amazing to hear from the astronauts at the European Space Agency that they like the song and that it has been on the playlist on the International Space Station. It was thrilling to find that real astronauts liked our song, Rocket Man, which was about an imaginary astronaut. “Not long after the Rocket Man single was released, my band and I were invited to the NASA headquarters in Texas and shown around by Al Worden, Apollo 15 command module pilot. ‘Rocket Man’ - and indeed ‘Dan Dare’ on the Rock of the Westies album - came from those boyhood dreams of travelling beyond the stars and looking back on Earth. “Our generation was smitten with the glory and excitement of space travel. Bernie and I did not meet until 1967, and two years after we met, Neil Armstrong became the first man to step on to the moon. I was 14 years old when Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space my songwriting partner Bernie Taupin was just 11. Sir Elton said, “When I was a boy Dan Dare was a comic book hero, and space travel just a romantic idea, not a reality.
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