Elton John took a trip down memory lane
Sir Elton John attends the screening of"Rocketman" during the 72nd annual Cannes Film Festival on May 16, 2019 in Cannes, France., out now, he stopped by iHeartRadio’s intimate theater in Burbank, Calif., Wednesday night for an interview with on-air personality Jim Kerr to share stories from his life and perform selected songs in his vast catalog.
After their mutual publisher handed a young John an envelope with some of Taupin’s lyrics in the late ‘60s, John took the train home from London, sat at the piano and poured forth melodies to match the words. It was only after the first writing sessions that the two actually met in a cafe. “His words always tell stories,” John said, “So when I look at the title and the lyric, a little movie came into my head…and it’s been the same ever since the first lyric. It’s the same now.
“Whatever Gets You Through the Night,” John told Lennon that he had to come on stage with him if the song reached No. 1, which it did, making it Lennon’s first solo No. 1. In his last major performance before his death six years later, Lennon joined John on stage at Madison Square Garden in November 1974 .
sailing from England to America without ever writing down a note. “You didn’t have tape recorders in those days, so when I wrote a song, I played it over and over until I knew the chords so I’d remember the words and everything,” John said. “I took a voyage from Southampton, England to New York on the SS France and I wanted to write thealbum. I had the lyrics. I had booked the music room for an hour and a half [each day] while the opera singer, who had booked the whole music room, went to lunch.
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