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"Someone Saved My Life Tonight" is a song with music by British musician Elton John and lyrics by Bernie Taupin, from John's 1975 album Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy. It was released as a single on 20 June 1975, [2] the only single released from the album. Like the rest of the album, the song is autobiographical, and addresses an ...
In 1968, Elton John tried to take his own life after relationship problems with a woman, Linda Woodrow. His lyricist Bernie Taupin and Baldry [18] found him, and Baldry talked him out of marrying her. The song "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" from Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy was about the experience. [15] [19]
The lyrics and accompanying photo booklet are infused with a specific sense of place and time that is otherwise rare in his music. The hit single from this album, "Someone Saved My Life Tonight", captured an early turning point in John's life. The album's release signalled the end of the Elton John Band, as an unhappy and overworked John ...
"Someone Saved My Life Tonight" "Little Jeannie" "Philadelphia Freedom" "Tiny Dancer" "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" "Daniel" "Rocket Man" "Club at the End of the Street" "Blue Eyes" "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues" (with Mary J. Blige) "The One" "I Don't Wanna Go on with You Like That" "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word ...
For some reason this lyrical line, 'Sorry seems to be the hardest word' ran through my head, and it fit perfectly with what he was playing. So I said, 'Don't do anything more to that, let me go write something,' so I wrote it out in a few minutes and we had the song."
Simple Life (Elton John song) Sixty Years On; Skyline Pigeon; Sleeping with the Past (song) Slow Rivers; Snookeroo; Someone Saved My Life Tonight; Something About the Way You Look Tonight; Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word; Step into Christmas
Apart from his lyrical contributions, in the Eagle Vision documentary, Classic Albums: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Taupin said that a lot of the power of the song comes from the chords, adding it also features what he called one of the greatest "strident, blistering guitar chords ever created" in rock and roll.
Someone I know who has heard this song numerous times before who heard the lyric: "Someone saved my life tonight, Sugar Bear." For many years, until he found out the real lyric, he thought Elton was singing "Sugar Bear", and after reading the actual lyrics, he really was singing "Sugar Bear".