Daniel, in this song, is the older brother of the singer and has returned home from war in Vietnam with severe PTSD and has been blinded. He was unable to settle back down in the U.S., and has left to live in Spain. His little brother misses him greatly, and says that even though Daniel is now blind- “he sees more than I”.
ELTON JOHN, "DANIEL". His music was one of a kind. I think of the many songs. Of those 60's, 7O'S, 80'S into the 90's. I jumble every jaundra into what I call. BABY BOOMERS MUSIC. There were so many different bands, and performers with every type of music that went on too become classic, iconic, music. I back for those years witnessed all of those songs when they were new. Media back then mostly revolved around music. Young people's music. All of it were the best times ever. More Elton John, "MADMAN ACROSS THE WATER", "SOMEONE SAVE MY LIFE TONIGHT",
This is the golden age of Elton. He was on one of the unbelievable runs an artist has ever been on. This song was on of the earlier tracks. This one is soooo unbelievably smooth.
🤣🥰 great reaction! You are a funny people. lol he is a bad man! I'm afraid to recommend something to you. Try My father's gun or Indian sunset. I want to see you cry
Early Elton was the best His popular songs are great but some of the unheard ones are even better: Hercules Mona Lisa's and mad hatters Suzy Levon Little Jeannie And there's many more
You got that right. They got to go to the beginning. 11/17/70. Like a pot of gold from a kid banging out in smokey clubs. He was so good back then.. Nobody knows it seems. Start back then. It's gold.
You want Elton John, I present to you “Madman Across the Water,” “Your Song,” “I’m Still Standing,” and/or “I Guess That’s Why They Call it the Blues.”
Bernie Taupin is Elton’s writing partner. Bernie writes of Daniel - a Vietnam vet. Bernie is the lyricist and Elton wrote/composed the music. The album “Madman Across the Water” is the beginning the this amazing partnership and to me, Madman remains Elton’s best work of art.
Despite the lyrics, Elton doesn’t actually have a brother named Daniel. The song is about a soldier named Daniel returning home, to a small town in Texas, from the Vietnam War. When he came home he was treated like a hero by many, but Daniel just wanted to get back to the life that he'd led before the war. Ultimately, because he couldn't find peace after the war he decided to leave America. I had the pleasure of seeing Elton live, he was phenomenal!!! As requested, some song recommendations: “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”, “Your Song”, “Rocket Man”, “Candle In the Wind”, “I’m Still Standing”, “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down On Me”, “Something About the Way You Look Tonight”, “I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues” Random Trivia: Elton John’s mother introduced him to Elvis Presley, through the single “Heartbreak Hotel”, at the age of 9. Per Elton, that biblical introduction would “change everything” for the singer, as that record is what inspired him to become a musician.
As a kid, I thought "your eyes have died" literally meant Daniel had gone blind. After learning the song's subject matter, I realized that line refers to the dead, vacant look in the eyes of some veterans who suffer from PTSD. May God comfort them all.
In the United States, the song reached No. 2 on the pop charts (only held from number one by "My Love" by Paul McCartney and Wings) and No. 1 on the adult contemporary charts[3] for two weeks in the spring of 1973.
I saw Elton "live" on tour in the Twin Cities...at the St. Paul Civic Center. I was right up front, and what a performance! He's always been a showman, and he proved it that night. Elton certainly was no two bit musician. As a young lad, he attended London's Royal Academy of Music for piano. Asked in an interview, how long would it take to compose the music for lyricist Bernie Taupin, he said ten minutes or so. ( Bernie and Elton collaborated as a team. )
Great song and artist. Always admired him both musically and as a social innovator of style, fashion and sexuality. He was an integral influencer before the term became common. After your previous video comments about drumming, may I suggest Frankenstein by The Edgar Winter Group live. Call and response between the musicians is wonderful and when they sync up on the same tune making the same sound or similar from the guitar and keyboard. Edgar can slip out and play another of the many instruments he plays. He even creates matching feedback from his amp stack. Follow that or make it a twofer with Tobacco Road by him and his brother. Both are albinos. They did not have bleach their hair.
Elton's music translates magically to Symphonic Orchestral music. He has some amazing performances with The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Definitely on video.
EJ is the first rock star of my own life's recollection ---absolutely ruled the world from '72 thru '76, and whenever the maternal unit (a teacher) would have a sitter over, it'd be one of her high school students...which meant an occasion to break out his (first) greatest hits album and wear the thing out for a few hours. He was topping the charts during my own senior year and beyond.
I'd call this music pop rock . but personally, I'd call it comfort music. Also, I can fully see why Elton John and Billy Joel would be confusing IF you weren't born in the early 70s. In fact when you reacted today to a Joel and Elton John song today, next to each other - that was kind of my first thought. Yeah, they're similar. Also because of the time - and style of music people were playing then, and the way records sounded. But I forgive you for saying that - because I can see and hear why you'd say that.
I was twelve when Daniel was released as a single we use to say a 45 . I was the girl into music and was DJ’ing my friends little dance parties from ten . I use to come with my little 45’s in a psychedelic box with a key . And my suitcase turntable . Elton John had been on the scene and guys it was the ultimate unhip thing ever to discussed labels we because bands told us in every interview I am not , we are not happy with labels . All rock flows on the sea of sounds ,beats hit the shore . We add our musical histories our childhoods our romances to the mix . We in rock had two labels . We grew with AM Phil Spector , little stevey wonder on my transistor radio in bed with head phones under the sheets . I was in Montreal my grandmother was in Boston I was eight ,seven , watching Beatles cartoons and the monkeys , getting baggies of singles from Motown from gran at the cash she would think of me , you got five singles in a bag from gran from the USA . Elton John if you mention Elton never forget Bernie wrote the lyrics,they were a team . Elton John was my first love and Daniel was my first tear he held my hand and brought me places AM radio was the beginning it’s where you got baptized , but FM was where you grew up and things got dangerous try steely DAN SONG FM a it was a movie swan song to our time before MTV commercialism we hated MTV it meant AM on steroids clean and bubblegum. They got scared in the music business disco revived it for a minute punk came in swinging with rap and MTV took a dump on it . Yeh we listened to Bowie, supertramp , queen , the stones , and Elton John , the who , Prince , but Michael Jackson was where MTV made there money , I danced and was still DJ’ing we did Cindy Lauper , Madonna, but the dangerous side of music the cool hip going to the show in my patched jeans long hair and knowledge and pedigree of concerts under my belt yeh I was at PINK FLOYD in 77 in Montreal , and by the way the French loved bands with drama !!! Pink Floyd was king , I was at Elton John’s yellow brick road tour 74 I was fourteen and married the boy who stood in line for 18 hours and went through a riot to get the tickets . So Daniel yeh he died in Vietnam his last trip before NAM was going to Spain he’s favourite place his brother brings him to the airport and remembers the happy goodbye . But I think now after the boing airplane tragedies of all those lost in crashes and Daniel waving goodbye . So Elton John try don’t let the sun go down on me ! Mona Lisa and mad hatter’s on Honkey Chateau ,blues for baby and me on don’t shoot me ,burn down the mission on tumbleweed connection .I’ve seen Billy Joel and do love his stuff but he never went as deep lyrically down as many roads as Bernie and Elton did , but you will only get that from listening to the early stuff , and yeh remember Elton was a best friend to John Lennon and was very British even though Bernie loved American history . Elton’s shows were very British in style , Billy was very New York and jersey and came out with Bruce Springsteen making that jersey shore New York sound not at all like Elton live .
Thank you so much for the information. I definitely can hear now that Billy and Elton are different. When I was younger, I use to get them confused a lot. Thanks again for watching!!
From a lifelong fan of Elton John. . .who just happens to be named Daniel. . .who was a 14 year old boy when he heard this song. I knew even then it wasn’t written about me (how could it be?), but it was so nice to hear my hero singing to my name! As to music you can’t classify, check out the legendary Norwegian band Nico and Vinz! Check out the official video of Nico and Vinz’s Am I Wrong. Soul Train Award for 2014 World Category Best New Artists. The song itself went 20 double platinum. You may want to check these guys out!
I hope someday you guys react to the songs All the Girls Love Alice and Dirty Little Girl. So many reactions channela have a rough time listening to those songs in 2023. In the 70's the songs were shocking but so acceptable because those were the times we were living in.
Hi Luv u Guys, Enjoy tha' realness u both bring-to-tha'-table, BUT! Pls can u adjust yr audio settings, Elton was coming thru' wth a lot of ""distortion "" thxs Guys Much Luv frm U.K/London. ❤️ 🇬🇧 Xxx.
This album - THIS particular cover you're displaying is his greatest hits vol 1. These are the earliest songs of my childhood. - this album was the one my mom had and I would pull it out with tiny hands and put the needle to the record and sing these songs. My mother would play this album while cleaning the house, when getting ready before she had friends over.. YES it takes you back instantly. This is EARLY 70s Elton John and later in the 80s and early 90s he would become so big that his fame made his newer stuff kind of tiresome (NOT his fault it, it's more like when someone becomes SO famous they're on the verge of parody ) - but I could never not love these songs because they are part of the fabric of my childhood. Beautiful song, beautiful reaction.
There are so many great Elton songs. I give Daniel a B+ because he has so many greats, the entire Yellow Brick Road double album is iconic. Madman Across the Water, Levon, Tiny Dancer, Rocket Man, you can’t go wrong and you’ll be surprised how great the songs are.
I heard a cool story tho I can't confirm that it's true. I heard years ago that Elton was home in his mansion and some young people came to the door. They lived down the street and were having a private party and their band cancelled. They had a grand piano there. Elton went down there and played and sang for 2 hours. No cost. If it's true that is pretty awesome. I agree Elton's voice is wonderful. He may be the only artist that I love every song he does. His songs are so expressive and his drummer Nigel is so tasteful. If you haven't heard it yet, Please check out the album "Capt'n Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy". Thank you. Here's a link to a track off that album 'Someone Saved My Life Tonight". ruclips.net/video/c8pRN2yLl24/видео.htmlsi=2oAY9bcCwFED8dhi
Elton John was making hits and was huge almost 10 years before Billy Joel hit the big time. One guy is from England, the other from New Jersey so how could they possibly sound alike? Oh, is it because they're two white guys who play the piano? I think that's what you're saying. That's like me saying I get Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles mixed up because they're two blind black guys who play the piano.
SO THE OTHER HUGE HIT OFF OFTHIS EPIC 73 ALBUM ( DON'T SHOOT ME, I'M ONLY THE PIANO PLAYER ) WAS : CROCODILE ROCK 😊, THE DEEP TRACK WOULD BE : HAVE MERCY ON THE CRIMINAL 😊
Opps! Oh yh elton songs. Pls could u try @ do all """Live"" performances, Always so much better live than studio u get to see his genius talent. Right, Rocket Man/ Tiny dancer/ Goodbye yellow brick road/ Your song/candle in tha' Wind/ Lucy in tha' sky wth diamonds/bitch is back/sorry seems to be hardest word/SACRIFICE@ MUST.👋👋
My take is that the main difference between Elton John and Billy Joel..Both were great but, while Billy Joel was a worker, Elton John was a prodigy. Elton was a phonomenal musician and singer but all of the lyircs were written by his writing partner Bernie. Billy Joel wrote his own songs, mostly about being the New York working class hellraiser that he was.
I'm a Elton John fan--atic! His breakthrough album, with Elton's first hit record, Your Song, came out during my impressionable high school years, and I have closely followed his music ever since. Though he's rightly revered for his latter, pop, beautifully produced and recorded records like Daniel, prefer his earlier, ballsy, R & B influenced records: "Elton John" through "Honky Chateau". These have a thicker, more roots--y sound, and many capture 1800s Americana better than many American songwriters. Though they are less well known that Elton's later mega-hits like Daniel, I think they are something special, and I'm heading over to your Patreon channel to request one right now: Burn Down The Mission. Back to Daniel: t's off the album *after* Honky Chateau, and marks Elton's transition from blurd-rock to impeccably produced pop superstardom, though IMO he lost some of the rootsy authenticity of his earlier records. Some more context: It tells the tale of a veteran, blinded in the war who is leaving the US to find personal peace abroad. As Bernie Taupin--who wrote Elton's lyrics--explained on his web site: "I'd seen this article in Time magazine on the Tet Offensive. And there was a sidebar next to it with a story about how many of the soldiers that were coming back from 'Nam were these simple sort of down home country guys who were generally embarrassed by both the adulation and, depending on what part of the country you came from, the animosity that they were greeted by. For the most part, they just wanted to get back to a normal life, but found it hard, what with all the looky loos and the monkeys of war that they carried on their backs. I just took it from there and wrote it from a younger brother's perspective; made him disabled and wanting to get away. I made it Spain, basically, because it rhymes with plane." I particularly like the beautiful way Bernie talks of the man's blindness: "Oh Daniel my brother, you are older than me Do you still feel the pain, of the scars that won't heal Your eyes have died, but you see more than I Daniel you're a star [the tailights] in the face of the sky" I hope that adds something. Thanks for your insights and appreciation. I'm a mega-fan of you guys too. 🙂Peace!
Go way back to "Bad Side of the Moon" I think you'll really dig it. You are right about not being able to classify his songs. Bad Side is another example. You asked for vintage EJ.
Tough to add anything that hasn't already been said... By the way, I think you're over modulated on your audio output to RUclips. I'm getting an awful lot of distortion.
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Laa and Chee. Hard to believe only 7500 views..I loved the song and the reaction. You guys rule.
This song is a decade before your "Hayday"
Elton was one of the few to be a pop star and a rock star in the 70s 🤩
Daniel, in this song, is the older brother of the singer and has returned home from war in Vietnam with severe PTSD and has been blinded. He was unable to settle back down in the U.S., and has left to live in Spain. His little brother misses him greatly, and says that even though Daniel is now blind- “he sees more than I”.
You said it takes you back to your youth in mid 80’s! Well BRO!! It takes me back to my teen years from 1972 to 1975 with Elton!
“Madman Across the Water” and “All the Young Girls Love Alice” are two gritty songs from Elton who is often seen as hits a “pop” artist.
Yes! Elton’s 70’s music is masterpieces. Must hears -
(Live) Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
Madman Across the Water
Indian Sunset
More Elton songs: "Bennie and the Jets", "Goodbye YellowBrick Road", "Someone Saved My Life Tonight", and "Sacrifice".🎶🎹🎤🎶
Benny and the Jets. Yuck.
What about Tiny Dancer , Danial.?
ELTON JOHN, "DANIEL". His music was one of a kind. I think of the many songs. Of those 60's, 7O'S, 80'S into the 90's. I jumble every jaundra into what I call. BABY BOOMERS MUSIC. There were so many different bands, and performers with every type of music that went on too become classic, iconic, music. I back for those years witnessed all of those songs when they were new. Media back then mostly revolved around music. Young people's music. All of it were the best times ever. More Elton John, "MADMAN ACROSS THE WATER", "SOMEONE SAVE MY LIFE TONIGHT",
You have to check out Elton John performing live at princess Dianas funeral (candle in he wind)
This is the golden age of Elton. He was on one of the unbelievable runs an artist has ever been on. This song was on of the earlier tracks. This one is soooo unbelievably smooth.
Don't let the Sun go down on me. Great recommendation.
Pop??? Nope. You gotta dive deeper. This man's been playing music since the 60s. He's a genius. You can't out him in a category.
🤣🥰 great reaction! You are a funny people. lol he is a bad man! I'm afraid to recommend something to you. Try My father's gun or Indian sunset. I want to see you cry
Early Elton was the best
His popular songs are great but some of the unheard ones are even better:
Hercules
Mona Lisa's and mad hatters
Suzy
Levon
Little Jeannie
And there's many more
You got that right. They got to go to the beginning. 11/17/70. Like a pot of gold from a kid banging out in smokey clubs. He was so good back then.. Nobody knows it seems. Start back then. It's gold.
You want Elton John, I present to you “Madman Across the Water,” “Your Song,” “I’m Still Standing,” and/or “I Guess That’s Why They Call it the Blues.”
Bernie Taupin is Elton’s writing partner. Bernie writes of Daniel - a Vietnam vet.
Bernie is the lyricist and Elton wrote/composed the music.
The album “Madman Across the Water” is the beginning the this amazing partnership and to me, Madman remains Elton’s best work of art.
You guys were in 6th grade in the 80’s !!! Damn you both look fantastic for your age I thought you boys were in your late 20’s
I thought so too! 😊
@@suesebree8670 Me too!!!
It's great to see 2 brother's hanging out doing what you love God bless you and your family both 🙏🙏😎
Great song & recording- you guys are great
Ya’ gotta do …Tickin’…. The hair on your arms will stand up !
Despite the lyrics, Elton doesn’t actually have a brother named Daniel. The song is about a soldier named Daniel returning home, to a small town in Texas, from the Vietnam War. When he came home he was treated like a hero by many, but Daniel just wanted to get back to the life that he'd led before the war. Ultimately, because he couldn't find peace after the war he decided to leave America.
I had the pleasure of seeing Elton live, he was phenomenal!!! As requested, some song recommendations:
“Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”, “Your Song”, “Rocket Man”, “Candle In the Wind”, “I’m Still Standing”, “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down On Me”, “Something About the Way You Look Tonight”, “I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues”
Random Trivia: Elton John’s mother introduced him to Elvis Presley, through the single “Heartbreak Hotel”, at the age of 9. Per Elton, that biblical introduction would “change everything” for the singer, as that record is what inspired him to become a musician.
As a kid, I thought "your eyes have died" literally meant Daniel had gone blind. After learning the song's subject matter, I realized that line refers to the dead, vacant look in the eyes of some veterans who suffer from PTSD. May God comfort them all.
In the United States, the song reached No. 2 on the pop charts (only held from number one by "My Love" by Paul McCartney and Wings) and No. 1 on the adult contemporary charts[3] for two weeks in the spring of 1973.
I saw Elton "live" on tour in the Twin Cities...at the St. Paul Civic Center. I was right up front, and what a performance! He's always been a showman, and he proved it that night. Elton certainly was no two bit musician. As a young lad, he attended London's Royal Academy of Music for piano. Asked in an interview, how long would it take to compose the music for lyricist Bernie Taupin, he said ten minutes or so. ( Bernie and Elton collaborated as a team. )
Great song and artist. Always admired him both musically and as a social innovator of style, fashion and sexuality. He was an integral influencer before the term became common. After your previous video comments about drumming, may I suggest Frankenstein by The Edgar Winter Group live. Call and response between the musicians is wonderful and when they sync up on the same tune making the same sound or similar from the guitar and keyboard. Edgar can slip out and play another of the many instruments he plays. He even creates matching feedback from his amp stack. Follow that or make it a twofer with Tobacco Road by him and his brother. Both are albinos. They did not have bleach their hair.
OMG PLEASE DO MORE ELTON!!! LOVE HIM ❤️❤️ Love your reactions.
Elton's music translates magically to Symphonic Orchestral music. He has some amazing performances with The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Definitely on video.
EJ is the first rock star of my own life's recollection ---absolutely ruled the world from '72 thru '76, and whenever the maternal unit (a teacher) would have a sitter over, it'd be one of her high school students...which meant an occasion to break out his (first) greatest hits album and wear the thing out for a few hours. He was topping the charts during my own senior year and beyond.
Try reacting to some of the tunes that show Elton’s piano skills like the song Ticking!
NOSTALGIA IS A GR888888 WORD FOR ELTON & BERNIE'S WORK! 😊 BERNIE WRITE THE LYRICS AND ELTON WRITES THE MUSIC TO THOSE LYRICS! 😊
This song always makes me cry.
I'd call this music pop rock . but personally, I'd call it comfort music.
Also, I can fully see why Elton John and Billy Joel would be confusing IF you weren't born in the early 70s. In fact when you reacted today to a Joel and Elton John song today, next to each other - that was kind of my first thought. Yeah, they're similar. Also because of the time - and style of music people were playing then, and the way records sounded. But I forgive you for saying that - because I can see and hear why you'd say that.
I love that La and Chi thought the camera was in focus. 🥂 😂
Bad connection back then
Check out Ticking by EJ one of his best and is so Relevant it could have been written today!❤
I was twelve when Daniel was released as a single we use to say a 45 . I was the girl into music and was DJ’ing my friends little dance parties from ten . I use to come with my little 45’s in a psychedelic box with a key . And my suitcase turntable . Elton John had been on the scene and guys it was the ultimate unhip thing ever to discussed labels we because bands told us in every interview I am not , we are not happy with labels . All rock flows on the sea of sounds ,beats hit the shore . We add our musical histories our childhoods our romances to the mix . We in rock had two labels . We grew with AM Phil Spector , little stevey wonder on my transistor radio in bed with head phones under the sheets . I was in Montreal my grandmother was in Boston I was eight ,seven , watching Beatles cartoons and the monkeys , getting baggies of singles from Motown from gran at the cash she would think of me , you got five singles in a bag from gran from the USA . Elton John if you mention Elton never forget Bernie wrote the lyrics,they were a team . Elton John was my first love and Daniel was my first tear he held my hand and brought me places AM radio was the beginning it’s where you got baptized , but FM was where you grew up and things got dangerous try steely DAN SONG FM a it was a movie swan song to our time before MTV commercialism we hated MTV it meant AM on steroids clean and bubblegum. They got scared in the music business disco revived it for a minute punk came in swinging with rap and MTV took a dump on it . Yeh we listened to Bowie, supertramp , queen , the stones , and Elton John , the who , Prince , but Michael Jackson was where MTV made there money , I danced and was still DJ’ing we did Cindy Lauper , Madonna, but the dangerous side of music the cool hip going to the show in my patched jeans long hair and knowledge and pedigree of concerts under my belt yeh I was at PINK FLOYD in 77 in Montreal , and by the way the French loved bands with drama !!! Pink Floyd was king , I was at Elton John’s yellow brick road tour 74 I was fourteen and married the boy who stood in line for 18 hours and went through a riot to get the tickets . So Daniel yeh he died in Vietnam his last trip before NAM was going to Spain he’s favourite place his brother brings him to the airport and remembers the happy goodbye . But I think now after the boing airplane tragedies of all those lost in crashes and Daniel waving goodbye . So Elton John try don’t let the sun go down on me ! Mona Lisa and mad hatter’s on Honkey Chateau ,blues for baby and me on don’t shoot me ,burn down the mission on tumbleweed connection .I’ve seen Billy Joel and do love his stuff but he never went as deep lyrically down as many roads as Bernie and Elton did , but you will only get that from listening to the early stuff , and yeh remember Elton was a best friend to John Lennon and was very British even though Bernie loved American history . Elton’s shows were very British in style , Billy was very New York and jersey and came out with Bruce Springsteen making that jersey shore New York sound not at all like Elton live .
Thank you so much for the information. I definitely can hear now that Billy and Elton are different. When I was younger, I use to get them confused a lot. Thanks again for watching!!
SO THAT'S HOW ( DON'T SHOOT ME ) OPENS UP 😊FYYYYRRRR!
Billy Joel and Elton John did a Stadium tour together back in the day. Think they sold out the Silverdome
From a lifelong fan of Elton John. . .who just happens to be named Daniel. . .who was a 14 year old boy when he heard this song. I knew even then it wasn’t written about me (how could it be?), but it was so nice to hear my hero singing to my name!
As to music you can’t classify, check out the legendary Norwegian band Nico and Vinz!
Check out the official video of Nico and Vinz’s Am I Wrong. Soul Train Award for 2014 World Category Best New Artists. The song itself went 20 double platinum. You may want to check these guys out!
We never mixed them up because we bought their albums and knew the music very well.
nice reaction guys
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 1973 👍
I hope someday you guys react to the songs All the Girls Love Alice and Dirty Little Girl.
So many reactions channela have a rough time listening to those songs in 2023. In the 70's the songs were shocking but so acceptable because those were the times we were living in.
Hi Luv u Guys, Enjoy tha' realness u both bring-to-tha'-table, BUT! Pls can u adjust yr audio settings, Elton was coming thru' wth a lot of ""distortion "" thxs Guys Much Luv frm U.K/London. ❤️ 🇬🇧 Xxx.
Thanks for watching. I will definitely upload with better audio next time.
Now you have to react to Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Rocket Man and Sacrifice. Elton has written so many great songs.
This album - THIS particular cover you're displaying is his greatest hits vol 1. These are the earliest songs of my childhood. - this album was the one my mom had and I would pull it out with tiny hands and put the needle to the record and sing these songs. My mother would play this album while cleaning the house, when getting ready before she had friends over.. YES it takes you back instantly. This is EARLY 70s Elton John and later in the 80s and early 90s he would become so big that his fame made his newer stuff kind of tiresome (NOT his fault it, it's more like when someone becomes SO famous they're on the verge of parody ) - but I could never not love these songs because they are part of the fabric of my childhood. Beautiful song, beautiful reaction.
master of art, elton=killer
There are so many great Elton songs. I give Daniel a B+ because he has so many greats, the entire Yellow Brick Road double album is iconic. Madman Across the Water, Levon, Tiny Dancer, Rocket Man, you can’t go wrong and you’ll be surprised how great the songs are.
Elton is a straight A student with honors
❤
Love this song so much
I heard a cool story tho I can't confirm that it's true. I heard years ago that Elton was home in his mansion and some young people came to the door. They lived down the street and were having a private party and their band cancelled. They had a grand piano there. Elton went down there and played and sang for 2 hours. No cost. If it's true that is pretty awesome.
I agree Elton's voice is wonderful. He may be the only artist that I love every song he does. His songs are so expressive and his drummer Nigel is so tasteful. If you haven't heard it yet, Please check out the album "Capt'n Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy". Thank you.
Here's a link to a track off that album 'Someone Saved My Life Tonight".
ruclips.net/video/c8pRN2yLl24/видео.htmlsi=2oAY9bcCwFED8dhi
Elton John was making hits and was huge almost 10 years before Billy Joel hit the big time. One guy is from England, the other from New Jersey so how could they possibly sound alike? Oh, is it because they're two white guys who play the piano? I think that's what you're saying. That's like me saying I get Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles mixed up because they're two blind black guys who play the piano.
SO THE OTHER HUGE HIT OFF OFTHIS EPIC 73 ALBUM ( DON'T SHOOT ME, I'M ONLY THE PIANO PLAYER ) WAS : CROCODILE ROCK 😊, THE DEEP TRACK WOULD BE : HAVE MERCY ON THE CRIMINAL 😊
Love my Elton..
Arriving in a coffin on a plane like so many of our young men during the Vietnam war.
Please check out Elton John's song, "Ticking". The message, unfortunately, is still relevant today.
Thank you. We needed some more Elton requests.
And "Don't let the sun go down on me"...
Opps! Oh yh elton songs. Pls could u try @ do all """Live"" performances, Always so much better live than studio u get to see his genius talent. Right, Rocket Man/ Tiny dancer/ Goodbye yellow brick road/ Your song/candle in tha' Wind/ Lucy in tha' sky wth diamonds/bitch is back/sorry seems to be hardest word/SACRIFICE@ MUST.👋👋
We will definitely be doing some Live Elton performances!!
No labels. Just music.
My take is that the main difference between Elton John and Billy Joel..Both were great but, while Billy Joel was a worker, Elton John was a prodigy. Elton was a phonomenal musician and singer but all of the lyircs were written by his writing partner Bernie. Billy Joel wrote his own songs, mostly about being the New York working class hellraiser that he was.
I can tell your friend ship you have,mine are long gone but ,I miss it
Song makes me cry and I dunno even know why
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I'm a Elton John fan--atic! His breakthrough album, with Elton's first hit record, Your Song, came out during my impressionable high school years, and I have closely followed his music ever since.
Though he's rightly revered for his latter, pop, beautifully produced and recorded records like Daniel, prefer his earlier, ballsy, R & B influenced records: "Elton John" through "Honky Chateau". These have a thicker, more roots--y sound, and many capture 1800s Americana better than many American songwriters. Though they are less well known that Elton's later mega-hits like Daniel, I think they are something special, and I'm heading over to your Patreon channel to request one right now: Burn Down The Mission.
Back to Daniel: t's off the album *after* Honky Chateau, and marks Elton's transition from blurd-rock to impeccably produced pop superstardom, though IMO he lost some of the rootsy authenticity of his earlier records. Some more context: It tells the tale of a veteran, blinded in the war who is leaving the US to find personal peace abroad. As Bernie Taupin--who wrote Elton's lyrics--explained on his web site:
"I'd seen this article in Time magazine on the Tet Offensive. And there was a sidebar next to it with a story about how many of the soldiers that were coming back from 'Nam were these simple sort of down home country guys who were generally embarrassed by both the adulation and, depending on what part of the country you came from, the animosity that they were greeted by. For the most part, they just wanted to get back to a normal life, but found it hard, what with all the looky loos and the monkeys of war that they carried on their backs.
I just took it from there and wrote it from a younger brother's perspective; made him disabled and wanting to get away. I made it Spain, basically, because it rhymes with plane."
I particularly like the beautiful way Bernie talks of the man's blindness:
"Oh Daniel my brother, you are older than me
Do you still feel the pain, of the scars that won't heal
Your eyes have died, but you see more than I
Daniel you're a star [the tailights] in the face of the sky"
I hope that adds something. Thanks for your insights and appreciation. I'm a mega-fan of you guys too. 🙂Peace!
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Sad songs
Guess that's why they call it the blues
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The older I get the simpler I like my music...voice and 1 or 2 instruments is enough to let the music and song breathe. Cut to the essence...
Daniel was his brother
Keep in mind that Elton doesn't write the lyrics. That's Bernie Taupin.
I think,Danial arrived in a coffin on a plane..
Go way back to "Bad Side of the Moon" I think you'll really dig it. You are right about not being able to classify his songs. Bad Side is another example. You asked for vintage EJ.
Two different voices. Can’t misstate those voices. They sound a little alike, but you could always know who’s singing. Sorry guys
They just remind us of each other
Tough to add anything that hasn't already been said...
By the way, I think you're over modulated on your audio output to RUclips.
I'm getting an awful lot of distortion.
Ye but Billy was married to the beautiful Christie Brinkley ! Elton not so much ! 😂
Did Daniel die? Did you even listen to the lyrics?
distorted audio
Heck no
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