(Top 50 Countdown!!!) 28. Elton John - "Someone Saved My Life Tonight"

There’s something about the “Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy” album which makes it stand apart from the other classic-period Elton stuff: earlier records seemed to be forward-looking with, if nothing else, a clear idea of some kinda career trajectory. By the time him and Bernie got here it was like ‘… and? Is that all there is?’, which is all best-there in “Someone Saved My Life Tonight”, with its self-obsessed rock-star-suicide romance sprawl. In movie terms, it’s the…

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… OD-scene in David Essex’s ‘Stardust’. It’s ‘Ziggy Stardust’. It’s every archetype rock’n’roll star. As well as “Your Song” (“I sat on the roof…”) I know this one helped quite a bit with our “Up On The Roof” on “Optimistic Fool”.

"Think Bubble" is an album (LP only) of 1995 demos for an unreleased Pooh Sticks album.
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