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All songs are written by John and Bernie Taupin, with the exception of "Love Song" by Lesley Duncan. In 2012, Tumbleweed Connection was ranked number 458 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The album peaked at number two on the UK Albums Chart and number five on the US Billboard 200 chart.
The song is a rhapsodic ode with a theme of unrequited love. [2] Though lyrically genderless, the video for the song depicts a schoolboy with a crush on an older boy; [3] Elton John told Rolling Stone that it was "the first gay song that I actually recorded as a homosexual song". [4]
Blue Moves is the eleventh studio album by English musician Elton John.It was released on 22 October 1976 through John's own Rocket Record Company (his first for the label), alongside MCA Records in certain countries.
"I Want Love" is a 2001 song by English musician Elton John, co-written with Bernie Taupin, [2] released as the first single from his Songs from the West Coast album. The song reached the top ten in Canada and the United Kingdom. [ 3 ]
"Border Song" is a song by Elton John with music by John and lyrics by Bernie Taupin. [2] The song initially appeared on the 1970 album Elton John, and was released in the spring of 1970 as the LP's first single. After failing to chart in the UK, it was released in North America a few months later.
Elton John has admitted that he doesn't like to listen to the timeless hits that made him a music icon. "I wouldn’t go and put my old music on," John, 77, confessed on BBC Radio 2's The Scott ...
This song went the same way. It was praised by critics, and yielded what producer Gus Dudgeon, who became a fan of the song upon hearing it on the radio, later called "a turntable hit." The song garnered a fair amount of airplay, but sold few copies and failed to chart. It was John's final single on the Philips label.
The music video, directed by Russell Mulcahy, was shot in Cannes and Nice on the Côte d'Azur in France. It also features the colours of the flag of France in graphics. Arlene Phillips, who choreographed the routines performed on location in the video, said her work is one of the proudest moments in her entire career (via the Channel 5 pop-documentary, Britain's Favourite 80s Songs, on 25 ...