Great Works of Reactions Jamel and very informative. I at age 58 yrs, thank you for learning about the structure of many songs meanings ' l had no idea' but thanks to you buddy i do now. Cheers to you and your great works. It occured to me just now, don't know if you did this before and that is sports theme songs for example in baseball the Mets and the Yankees: Mets have two so do the Yankees : Mets is ' Meet the Mets instrumental and lyrics. The Yankees is Here Come The Yankees and like wise instrumental and lyrics. Now do the rest of the Major Baseball League also have such, would like to hear them. 👍🍻cheers🍔⚾⚾⚾⚾
Wow, thank you for reacting to one of my all time fave EJ songs, this was so beautiful, powerful and emotional, just like when I first heard it all those years ago...🥰🦋💞😭😭😭 Being an avid lover of butterflies, this also resonated with me on so many levels...Like many of you, I have been heavily relying on youtube to help get me thru this pandemic. So much Nostalgia, so many feel good memories, and some not so feel good...such as life....😔 I so appreciate you Jamel, thank you for taking the time to listen to and explore all music genres. I have one itty bitty request, if I may...Can you please PLEASE react to "Wildflower" by New Birth. I love their version of the song, although it was also beautifully recorded by Skylark. God bless you.🙏🥰🦋
Bernie Taupin and Elton John are an incredible team. Bernie's lyrics, and Elton's music. And also very, very underrated is his backing band. It's a riches of talent.
This is my favorite Elton John single. The main chord progression he plays on the piano still gives me chills. The song is equally haunting and beautiful. A masterpiece.
Drums YES! Nigel's contribution to this masterpiece seems to always fly under the radar. I would love to hear his part isolated. He may be my favorite drummer.
we've got a real historian here! relieved after seeing comments that Bernie wrote the songs... Glad someone knows what the hell their talkin about. Thanks Marta
Linda Woodrow Hanlon is the woman Elton was engaged to. Confused and tortured by his sexuality he contemplated suicide. Elton paid for her knee surgery last year as she was broke.
As I recall, this song came out before he was openly gay. It was revealed in a magazine interview, (Rolling Stone, I think?), and then somehow everything about him seemed to make more sense, even if it was rather shocking at the time. (Someone please correct me if the mists of time have muddled the details...)
@@patriciamorgan6545 He married Renate Blauel in Sydney in 1984, some 15 years after the incidents in this song took place, but he came out as bisexual in 1976 (yes, in a 'Rolling Stone' interview). In 1992, in another interview that appeared in 'Rolling Stone', he said he was comfortable with being openly gay.
My sister and I would sit between the speaker and listen to this song over and over. This, in my opinion, is THEE BEST song Elton John ever did!!! (And he did A LOT!)
It’s about his suicide attempt when he didn’t want to get married. Sugar Bear was his band mate. Bernie topen found him with his head in the oven but the window open. One of his greatest songs ever
In the 70's it was well known that John was bi-sexual. Feb 10 1984 he DID MARRY Renate Blauel , lavish wedding on Valentines Day, in a church, Australia.They were married for until 1988.
Not sure if you’re familiar with Elton’s unique song writing process. His collaborator since the late 60s is Bernie Taupin. He writes the lyrics, then sends them to Elton...who composes the music and vocal arrangements to Bernie’s lyrics. They’re a legendary team! Elton is one of the best performers in rock history...one of my very favorites!
One of the best bridges ever written, both musically and vocally--to say nothing of the deeply compelling lyricism: "and I would have walked head-on into the deep end of the river..."
That early stuff from him was amazing, "Sorry Seems to be Hardest Word (my favorite) ", "Your Song", "Benny and the Jets" "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"....my fingers would get worn out if I typed all the great stuff he did
I was lucky enough to see both Elton John and Billy Joel when toured together! Almost 3 1/2 hours of pure gold and to top it off they both played "Piano Man" together! 💖
I also saw Elton John & Billy Joel together back in 2001. Final encore was "Piano Man," just the two of them on their pianos, no band, and the audience singing along. Pure gold is an understatement. Best. Concert. Ever.
@@boxsterman77 And yet these are not his words. Bernie Taupin’s ability to tap into something so personal in someone else’s life is incredible. Now that is talent!
I love Nigel's drumming. There are faster drummers and more technical drummers, but no one makes the drums emotional like Nigel does. He is such a perfectionist and brings out such a moving and dramatic sound to the instrument. This as especially apparent in the closing song to this album, "Curtains".
Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy tells the story of Elton John and Bernie Taupin's early years together as friends and writing partners - the songs are in chronological order.
Captain Fantastic was the first album ever to be released at number 1 on the charts. I remember my older sister playing it all the time when it first came out.
Yes, Elton John and Bernie Taupin are right there at the same caliber with the writing teams of Mick Jagger/Keith Richards and Paul McCartney/John Lennon.
almost all- lesser lyrics Don't Go Breaking my Heart are Elton's, and i believe most of the fine Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word. Some other lyricists too, but mainly Bernie, and for virtually all the best songs. Elton can take the credit for instrumentals of course, including the great Funeral for a Friend. Some critics have been sniffy about Bernie's lyrics, but for me many have been marvellous.
I like it when I know there’s a certain spot in the song where something really special is coming up and I’m waiting to see if Jamal notices, his facial expressions never disappoints me. He hears it too!
Every time I hear this, it takes me back to an early evening in June 1975 when I first heard this on my radio and everything changed in 6 minutes and 45 seconds... and every time I hear it, I'm saved all over again. ❤️
Music you should listen to by Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Your Song, Dont Let the Sun Go Down On Me, Take Me to the Pilot, Philadelphia Freedom, Candle In The Wind, Something About The Way You Look Tonight, Grey Seal, Honky Cat, Sad Songs Say So Much, Island Girl, Nikita, Bitch Is Back, Crocodile Rock, Saturday Nights Alright for Fighting, Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters, Rock and Roll Madonna, Victim of Love, Pinball Wizard, and Amoreena.
The ending has always been phenomenal vocals to me: "Someone saved, someone saved my life tonight/Someone saved, someone saved, someone saved my life tonight." Only Elton can make it sound like that. Ear candy.
Elton John was my first concert ever in 1995 and nothing will ever compare. His voice always makes me sublimely happy. Watching people react to his music is amazing.
This was the very first album I ever bought as a teen. I never had the opportunity to go to ANY live concerts of ANY artists or bands until decades later. And Elton was the first. I sat in the top row of the stadium and his piano was about as big as my thumb, I was SO far away from the stage. But I cried like a baby listening to Elton live, singing all of his anthems from my past. I was blessed after that to hear him 2x more. It was an honour to hear him live and his voice never let him down.
I must have been next to you up there in the rafters. In heard a rumor that he sometimes gets people from the top and puts them in saved seats by the stage. I guess we weren' t that lucky. Sir Elton John is by far the best performer I've ever seen, and I've seen a few. I saw Bowie at 15 and Elton nearly 40 years later. Better late than never I guess
Taupin's lyric refers to a time in 1968, before John was popular as a musician, when John was engaged to be married to girlfriend Linda Woodrow. John and Woodrow were sharing a flat with Taupin in Furlong Road in Highbury, London, hence the opening line "When I think of those East End lights." John did not love his girlfriend, and felt trapped by the relationship. Feeling desperate, John contemplated suicide, and even made a half-hearted attempt at asphyxiating himself with a gas oven in his home.[3] He took refuge in his friends, especially Long John Baldry, who convinced John to abandon his plans to marry in order to salvage and maintain his musical career. His parents arrived the next day, in a van, to take him home.[4] As a sign of respect and gratitude to Baldry, Taupin wrote him into the song as the "someone" in the title, and also as "Sugar Bear".[5][6][7] According to Taupin in the documentary “Two Rooms,” which is about the professional and personal relationship between Bernie Taupin and Elton John, he was the one who found Elton. Elton had turned on the gas oven and lay down on the floor next to it. But, he had also opened the kitchen window, rendering the attempt ineffective.
Hey Jamal, you are listening to one of the best singer, pianist, entertainer and killer lyrics by non other than Bernie Taupin. They collaborated for eons. INCREDIBLE TALENTED MEN!!!
Bernie's words, Elton's music. They were a team like no other. When this came out Elton was at the TOP of his game. He was HUGE. I remember hearing this song for the very first time on the radio. Went out the next day to K-Mart and bought the album and WORE IT OUT. My gosh, music was so amazing then. No internet, no downloading, you went to the store, bought the big album, sat and listened to it through, over and over, staring at the album covers........ it was heaven. Technology is great, we've gotten so far but some things that we've lost,,,, it's sad. Elton was a HUGE part of music history, of my music history, of my life. Great song.
Elton got married to a girl named Rene Blauel and it lasted from 1984-1988. He came out after that. I think this song is inspired by that experience. Love Elton. Saw him three times and it was amazing.
I have only seen Elton John in concert 16 times in my life. Living in the San Francisco Bay Area, he would perform somewhere nearby every year or two. Amazing song writer!
My FAVORITE Elton John song of all time!!! This song is about a friend stopping another friend from marrying the wrong person. The drum sounds in this song are SONIC!!!
This song is one of Elton John's hardest songs to sing as it covers 4 vocal octaves and transitions a lot through them. It is also 6:45 and - at Sir Elton's insistence - it was never cut for the single, thereby creating one of the longest singles of all-time. We had it at home.
Jessie , I own a copy of this album too and I will tell you l bought it when it first came out. I just turned 70 in March. The album is still in my record cabinet
Fun facts: when he released this album in 1975 it was the very first album to ever enter the Billboard charts at #1, and he was the #1 selling artist in the world that year, reportedly accounting for 3% of all record sells worldwide.
This was my gateway song into Elton John. He instantly became my favorite singer. I was 13yrs old. Great reaction. Thank you for all that you do. You are much needed during this time.
They don't call themself Queen Bitch for nothin. Elton can go off when needed. "Good Bye Yellow Brick Road" is another. Side note: When I was a kid, of course, I didn't get this song. I thought Sugarbear was some sort of superhero, and I thought it was the same character on the Sugar Pops cereal boxes.
Jamel, if you haven’t already watch the movie ‘Rocketman’. It’s Elton’s story - the important parts, anyway. He was a huge part of making the movie and it really shows how important Bernie Taupin was/is to him. ❤️
This takes me back to the summer of 1975 and experiencing my first love as a teen. Funny how a song can bring back all those feelings and memories and leave you with a contented smile on your face. Thanks for reacting to this beautiful song.
So glad you're spotlighting Elton. So sorry you missed out on our generation's musical talent. You really had to be there. But then this channel would probably not exist, right ?
I've loved Elton ever since I heard Daniel on the radio as a kid in the 70s. This is one of his best vocals. Jamal, you make these songs come right back to life after all these decades. ✌🏼🎹
This whole album is a masterpiece. Every song is a gem. My favorite is "We All Fall In Love Sometimes", a song about Elton and Bernie's songwriting partnership.
It's an album that walks you thru an amazing journey, each song/chapter is a little gem on its own. The title track is probably my favorite, very clearly a case for Corn Flakes and Classics...
This song inspired me to embroider a butterfly on the back pocket of my jeans when I was 13! That's the power of the combo of Bernie's lyrics and EJs music.
I have loved this song since it came out, and I was very young, early grade school. Just listening with you now, and the things that I have been through in my life, now 55, the tears were streaming down my face. I fully understand, Elton, my friend. I was almost there too. And like you, thank God my music is still alive.
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Can you please react to tangerine by Led Zeppelin and Mona Lisa’s and mad hatters by Elton John.
Yes. he was going to get married but someone saved him.
Great Works of Reactions Jamel and very informative.
I at age 58 yrs, thank you for learning about the structure of many songs meanings ' l had no idea' but thanks to you buddy i do now. Cheers to you and your great works.
It occured to me just now, don't know if you did this before and that is sports theme songs for example in baseball the Mets and the
Yankees: Mets have two so do the Yankees : Mets is ' Meet the Mets instrumental and lyrics. The Yankees is Here Come The Yankees and like wise instrumental and lyrics.
Now do the rest of the Major Baseball League also have such, would like to hear them.
👍🍻cheers🍔⚾⚾⚾⚾
Wow, thank you for reacting to one of my all time fave EJ songs, this was so beautiful, powerful and emotional, just like when I first heard it all those years ago...🥰🦋💞😭😭😭 Being an avid lover of butterflies, this also resonated with me on so many levels...Like many of you, I have been heavily relying on youtube to help get me thru this pandemic. So much Nostalgia, so many feel good memories, and some not so feel good...such as life....😔 I so appreciate you Jamel, thank you for taking the time to listen to and explore all music genres. I have one itty bitty request, if I may...Can you please PLEASE react to "Wildflower" by New Birth. I love their version of the song, although it was also beautifully recorded by Skylark. God bless you.🙏🥰🦋
Sweet freedom from the drug
I am a head-banging rocker and I say Elton has pretty much never made a song I do not like. He is a crazy talented singer, pianist and songwriter-duo.
Bernie Taupin wrote most of his songs, including this one
Bernie Taupin is a genius with his phrasing, and he always brought out the very best in Elton John. Dynamic duo!!
Yes indeed!
Bernie Taupin and Elton John are an incredible team. Bernie's lyrics, and Elton's music. And also very, very underrated is his backing band. It's a riches of talent.
I do not deny any of this. Bernie and Elton had their very own art forms that came together just at the right time to make some amazing music
You're listening to one of the musical G.O.A.T.S. What a team...Bernie and Elton.
L. E. Coleman, you're dead on, sir! What a catalog they have together...
For real. ❤️
A big Amen to that!
Absolutely! Bernie’s words, Elton’s voice/piano. Magic!
AMEN!!!!!
"just a pawn out played by a dominating queen" what a line, what a genius lyric.
Along with "altar-bound, hypnotised"
"A slip noose hanging in my darkest dreams." This entire song is just incredible.
Bernie Taupin
@@mgwilliams1000the image of the noose followed in the next line with a reference to him being "strangled" -- genius.
This is my favorite Elton John single. The main chord progression he plays on the piano still gives me chills. The song is equally haunting and beautiful. A masterpiece.
....and the drums are stellar!
Especially as they (the drums) roll out for the first time...awesome
Drums YES! Nigel's contribution to this masterpiece seems to always fly under the radar. I would love to hear his part isolated. He may be my favorite drummer.
One of my favorite Elton songs as well.
Tricky to play piano accompaniment but worth the effort.
Elton was about to get married. Was very unhappy and was suicidal. It was Long John Baldry that saved his life.
we've got a real historian here! relieved after seeing comments that Bernie wrote the songs... Glad someone knows what the hell their talkin about. Thanks Marta
Linda Woodrow Hanlon is the woman Elton was engaged to. Confused and tortured by his sexuality he contemplated suicide. Elton paid for her knee surgery last year as she was broke.
As I recall, this song came out before he was openly gay. It was revealed in a magazine interview, (Rolling Stone, I think?), and then somehow everything about him seemed to make more sense, even if it was rather shocking at the time. (Someone please correct me if the mists of time have muddled the details...)
@@patriciamorgan6545 He married Renate Blauel in Sydney in 1984, some 15 years after the incidents in this song took place, but he came out as bisexual in 1976 (yes, in a 'Rolling Stone' interview). In 1992, in another interview that appeared in 'Rolling Stone', he said he was comfortable with being openly gay.
Also - Bernie found him in the middle of a very un-succesful suicide attempt... He wrote this about that...
He was literally saved from ending it all. He was saved from suicide, "Thank God my music is still alive". Yes, indeed.
His 70's music is some of the best out there.
Notice you've done a lot of early 70's Elton John, my favourite artist in the 70's....Maybe try "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters"
This is what the word "brilliant" sounds like. ✌🎵❤
This song takes me back to the 70s.... to a wonderful place
My happy place.
Me too. Best summers from 73 to 76.
"I'm sleeping with myself tonight, saved in time, thank God my music's still alive."
My sister and I would sit between the speaker and listen to this song over and over. This, in my opinion, is THEE BEST song Elton John ever did!!! (And he did A LOT!)
It’s about his suicide attempt when he didn’t want to get married. Sugar Bear was his band mate. Bernie topen found him with his head in the oven but the window open. One of his greatest songs ever
Incorrect sir.
Tony is correct. And this was Elton’s first suicide attempt.
@@brettjones4300 You can find this story everywhere online and from Eltons mouth himself
In the 70's it was well known that John was bi-sexual. Feb 10 1984 he DID MARRY Renate Blauel , lavish wedding on Valentines Day, in a church, Australia.They were married for until 1988.
Correct
Not sure if you’re familiar with Elton’s unique song writing process. His collaborator since the late 60s is Bernie Taupin. He writes the lyrics, then sends them to Elton...who composes the music and vocal arrangements to Bernie’s lyrics. They’re a legendary team! Elton is one of the best performers in rock history...one of my very favorites!
I thought I was an Elton John fan, but years ago I realised I was a Bernie Taupin fan.
@@peterr6658 whoa now, remember Elton has to write the music along with those lyrics. Why not be a fan of both?
@@ohwni Have to agree, both super talented.
That's actually a pretty common way songwriters work.
One of the best bridges ever written, both musically and vocally--to say nothing of the deeply compelling lyricism: "and I would have walked head-on into the deep end of the river..."
Elton had a number one hit 17 years in a row... Which is of course a record that will never be broken..
And this was the 1st one..
My wife and I saw Elton when he came to Seattle years ago. $150 a ticket. Best money ever spent. 3 hours. No opening band. Just Elton. Amazing show.
That early stuff from him was amazing, "Sorry Seems to be Hardest Word (my favorite) ", "Your Song", "Benny and the Jets" "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"....my fingers would get worn out if I typed all the great stuff he did
Empty sky through caribou. Not a bad all album in the lot.
I was lucky enough to see both Elton John and Billy Joel when toured together! Almost 3 1/2 hours of pure gold and to top it off they both played "Piano Man" together! 💖
Elton John with Billy Joel!! Holy Canole!
I also saw Elton John & Billy Joel together back in 2001. Final encore was "Piano Man," just the two of them on their pianos, no band, and the audience singing along. Pure gold is an understatement. Best. Concert. Ever.
@@honeypie784 Lord, how I would have loved to have been there!!
I saw that tour also, great show.
Of all Sir Elton's songs this one is his most intense.
In that it depicts him from walking away from suicide--yeah. He has always said this was the most personal of all songs.
Yep
@@boxsterman77 And yet these are not his words. Bernie Taupin’s ability to tap into something so personal in someone else’s life is incredible. Now that is talent!
Never doesn’t give me goosebumps. For nearly 50 years.
"It's 4 o'clock in the morning, Damn it"
THANK GOD MY MUSIC'S STILL ALIVE!!
@@JakeWarwick2410 We're thankful as well...!
IMO this is Elton’s most beautiful song.
I love Nigel's drumming. There are faster drummers and more technical drummers, but no one makes the drums emotional like Nigel does. He is such a perfectionist and brings out such a moving and dramatic sound to the instrument. This as especially apparent in the closing song to this album, "Curtains".
True. He’s a brilliant time keeper to Elton’s melodies. His contributions to the Elton sound is immense.
Elton fired Nigel right after the recording of this album, He would hire him back 8 years later.
Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy tells the story of Elton John and Bernie Taupin's early years together as friends and writing partners - the songs are in chronological order.
Captain Fantastic was the first album ever to be released at number 1 on the charts. I remember my older sister playing it all the time when it first came out.
Yeah i saved that album when my older sister dint want vinyl anymore, such fun to listen too
I have it on vinyl, cassette and mp3!
Came out when I was 15...the cd is in my car now lol. But I still have the vinyl.....
and Elton's Rock of the Westies the 2nd to enter at #1- the last of Elton's 7 consecutive #1 albums in USA from 1972-5
Also, remember with Elton, all the lyrics are Bernie Taupin's genius.
And Elton's genius brings Bernie's words to life. No one would have heard of Bernie without Elton. So they needed each other.
Yes, Elton John and Bernie Taupin are right there at the same caliber with the writing teams of Mick Jagger/Keith Richards and Paul McCartney/John Lennon.
almost all- lesser lyrics Don't Go Breaking my Heart are Elton's, and i believe most of the fine Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word. Some other lyricists too, but mainly Bernie, and for virtually all the best songs. Elton can take the credit for instrumentals of course, including the great Funeral for a Friend. Some critics have been sniffy about Bernie's lyrics, but for me many have been marvellous.
Not just about leaving a bad engagement, but leaving that relationship and soaring as a star. Now, he's married and more settled down.
I had the privilege of seeing Elton John in Seattle in 2019
There's Lennon and McCartney and then there's Elton John and Bernie Taupin!! Awesome Collaboration!!
My favorite Elton John song....EVER!!
My favorite Elton John song. Saved my life.
Probably my favorite Elton John track. One of my favorite ballads...ever.
FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND &
SORRY SEEMS TO BE THE HARDEST WORD
Funeral For a Friend reaction has already been filmed and released
@@karachickering6769 Thanks I must've overlook it
Both great songs anyway Bill!! Maybe Jamel can do Sorry 🤞
@@jacqueline4514 thanks, he most likely will, he's good at requests
Empty Garden is another nice tune by EJ about John Lennon.
Best song of all about John Lennon when he was murdered. #2 was George Harrison's All Those Years Ago.
I disagree. The best was by his jilted elder son Julian in the masterpiece "Valotte."
How he weaves such a beautiful song around Taupins words is magical.
Genius songwriter along with Taupin's lyrics. They wrote hit after hit for a time in the 70's.
I like it when I know there’s a certain spot in the song where something really special is coming up and I’m waiting to see if Jamal notices, his facial expressions never disappoints me. He hears it too!
Every time I hear this, it takes me back to an early evening in June 1975 when I first heard this on my radio and everything changed in 6 minutes and 45 seconds... and every time I hear it, I'm saved all over again. ❤️
Elton had a LOT of great songs
Has
Music you should listen to by Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Your Song, Dont Let the Sun Go Down On Me, Take Me to the Pilot, Philadelphia Freedom, Candle In The Wind, Something About The Way You Look Tonight, Grey Seal, Honky Cat, Sad Songs Say So Much, Island Girl, Nikita, Bitch Is Back, Crocodile Rock, Saturday Nights Alright for Fighting, Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters, Rock and Roll Madonna, Victim of Love, Pinball Wizard, and Amoreena.
Yeah......looove Elton John too! But you forgot LION KING!! And of course, Tiny Dancer. LOL
Yes missing Tiny Dancer!
@@joannepage8894 Hes said hes heard it before
@@pamcoyer9582 Hes said hes heard Tiny Dancer before
Bennie and the Jets?
Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding
Madman Across the Water
Such a great song
The ending has always been phenomenal vocals to me: "Someone saved, someone saved my life tonight/Someone saved, someone saved, someone saved my life tonight." Only Elton can make it sound like that. Ear candy.
Elton was the 70s!!!! So freaking amazing! I saw him in 1976.✌❤
The absolute best of Elton's big hits, in my humble opinion.
Please oh please react to Elton John's "Levon"
I agree! Also, am I the only person alive who wants him to give Whitewash County a spin? Why that wasn't a single, I'll never know.
Levon is off, in my opinion, Elton’s best album, Madman Across the Water,
Which is my favorite Elton John album, and song!!
Elton John was my first concert ever in 1995 and nothing will ever compare. His voice always makes me sublimely happy. Watching people react to his music is amazing.
This was the very first album I ever bought as a teen. I never had the opportunity to go to ANY live concerts of ANY artists or bands until decades later. And Elton was the first. I sat in the top row of the stadium and his piano was about as big as my thumb, I was SO far away from the stage. But I cried like a baby listening to Elton live, singing all of his anthems from my past. I was blessed after that to hear him 2x more. It was an honour to hear him live and his voice never let him down.
My first record, too! ...the production is just superb on this album! ...when I got older, I got into Genesis.
I must have been next to you up there in the rafters. In heard a rumor that he sometimes gets people from the top and puts them in saved seats by the stage. I guess we weren' t that lucky. Sir Elton John is by far the best performer I've ever seen, and I've seen a few. I saw Bowie at 15 and Elton nearly 40 years later. Better late than never I guess
Taupin's lyric refers to a time in 1968, before John was popular as a musician, when John was engaged to be married to girlfriend Linda Woodrow. John and Woodrow were sharing a flat with Taupin in Furlong Road in Highbury, London, hence the opening line "When I think of those East End lights." John did not love his girlfriend, and felt trapped by the relationship. Feeling desperate, John contemplated suicide, and even made a half-hearted attempt at asphyxiating himself with a gas oven in his home.[3] He took refuge in his friends, especially Long John Baldry, who convinced John to abandon his plans to marry in order to salvage and maintain his musical career. His parents arrived the next day, in a van, to take him home.[4] As a sign of respect and gratitude to Baldry, Taupin wrote him into the song as the "someone" in the title, and also as "Sugar Bear".[5][6][7]
According to Taupin in the documentary “Two Rooms,” which is about the professional and personal relationship between Bernie Taupin and Elton John, he was the one who found Elton. Elton had turned on the gas oven and lay down on the floor next to it. But, he had also opened the kitchen window, rendering the attempt ineffective.
Hey Jamal, you are listening to one of the best singer, pianist, entertainer and killer lyrics by non other than Bernie Taupin. They collaborated for eons. INCREDIBLE TALENTED MEN!!!
I've been hearing this song since the 70's and it just keeps getting better and better.
Check out Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me. And Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting.
Bernie's words, Elton's music. They were a team like no other. When this came out Elton was at the TOP of his game. He was HUGE. I remember hearing this song for the very first time on the radio. Went out the next day to K-Mart and bought the album and WORE IT OUT. My gosh, music was so amazing then. No internet, no downloading, you went to the store, bought the big album, sat and listened to it through, over and over, staring at the album covers........ it was heaven. Technology is great, we've gotten so far but some things that we've lost,,,, it's sad. Elton was a HUGE part of music history, of my music history, of my life. Great song.
Very few musical acts can compare to the Beatles but this is one of them. EJ is truly a class above.
Elton pretty much owned the 70s
One of my favorites from Elton; this and Mona Lisas and MadHatters are so good
His best . Period ! The peak of songwriting. It’s a hymn of the 70’s . I’ve yet to hear a song capture the moment of this time like this so perfectly.
I've been a fan since 70s. Elton John has so many great songs.
Your Song was the first EJ song I heard (coming from my big brother’s room) I was 13 and hooked on his music.
Elton got married to a girl named Rene Blauel and it lasted from 1984-1988. He came out after that. I think this song is inspired by that experience. Love Elton. Saw him three times and it was amazing.
Jamel, you need to react to one of the best duets of all time!!!
Elton John and George Michael "Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me"!!!
I have only seen Elton John in concert 16 times in my life. Living in the San Francisco Bay Area, he would perform somewhere nearby every year or two. Amazing song writer!
This album brings back so many memories of my time in the 70's. Really great times and such a sense of freedom!
Absolute Masterpiece!! Vocally Spectacular, Musically Brilliant, Lyrically Beautiful, Imagery, Amazing.
One of my favorite Elton John songs. If you haven't heard "Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters," that should be one of your next songs.
Elton John is a master of melody. He really has the Midas touch when it comes to composing melodies.
This was the height of Elton's Fame in the 1970's! ♥️😊
My FAVORITE Elton John song of all time!!! This song is about a friend stopping another friend from marrying the wrong person. The drum sounds in this song are SONIC!!!
Late 70s 80s music is so refreshing the lyrics melody are a work of art unlike most of today's so called songs
This song is one of Elton John's hardest songs to sing as it covers 4 vocal octaves and transitions a lot through them. It is also 6:45 and - at Sir Elton's insistence - it was never cut for the single, thereby creating one of the longest singles of all-time. We had it at home.
Love Lies Bleeding is so good. That bass line is killer too.
Is that the same as Funeral for a Friend?
@@headbangingmama8907yes it's the second part of that song. So good.
Elton John's harmonies are a crazy, amazing blend of Gospel~Soul and The Beach Boys.
Spot on!
Seen him live several times. What a show....what amazing music. Bernie wrote them perfectly.....Elton breathed magic into it.
You, my friend, have gone down the grand canyon , this is no rabbit hole!
I have loved and owned a copy of this album for more years than I care to admit.
Jessie , I own a copy of this album too and I will tell you l bought it when it first came out. I just turned 70 in March. The album is still in my record cabinet
Yes same here😎
Saw him back in the 90's where he played for almost four hours and encouraged the audience to sing along to every song.
I saw Elton perform this live and I had tears in my eyes.
I remember seeing him with the band T-Rex as a pianist ( only once in 71) with the song Get It On.
Fun facts: when he released this album in 1975 it was the very first album to ever enter the Billboard charts at #1, and he was the #1 selling artist in the world that year, reportedly accounting for 3% of all record sells worldwide.
This was my gateway song into Elton John. He instantly became my favorite singer. I was 13yrs old. Great reaction. Thank you for all that you do. You are much needed during this time.
They don't call themself Queen Bitch for nothin. Elton can go off when needed. "Good Bye Yellow Brick Road" is another.
Side note: When I was a kid, of course, I didn't get this song. I thought Sugarbear was some sort of superhero, and I thought it was the same character on the Sugar Pops cereal boxes.
My favorite Elton song and one of the strongest most melancholic ever!❤
Jamel, if you haven’t already watch the movie ‘Rocketman’. It’s Elton’s story - the important parts, anyway. He was a huge part of making the movie and it really shows how important Bernie Taupin was/is to him. ❤️
Have you seen the footage of Elton in Russia from the 70's? Great stuff with Ray Cooper.
@@Mikey_Sea Ooooh, no I haven’t. I’ll have to look it up - thanks! 👊🏻
Bernie translated this real life episode so well, in so few lines, and then Elton gave it wings to fly...
Elton is an amazing artist his music always has so much feeling and soul in them.
When that first snare hits, this song goes from an A to A+++++ simply masterful!
Like so many Elton John songs, I defy you to just listen and not sing along, loudly! 🤩
"It's 4 o'clock in the morning. Damn it, listen to me good!"
My favorite part! Powerful
This takes me back to the summer of 1975 and experiencing my first love as a teen. Funny how a song can bring back all those feelings and memories and leave you with a contented smile on your face. Thanks for reacting to this beautiful song.
That piano riff: fairly simple, yet so iconic
So glad you're spotlighting Elton.
So sorry you missed out on our generation's musical talent. You really had to be there.
But then this channel would probably not exist, right ?
This song and “Your Song” are my favorite Elton John songs.
I've loved Elton ever since I heard Daniel on the radio as a kid in the 70s. This is one of his best vocals. Jamal, you make these songs come right back to life after all these decades. ✌🏼🎹
This whole album is a masterpiece. Every song is a gem. My favorite is "We All Fall In Love Sometimes", a song about Elton and Bernie's songwriting partnership.
It's an album that walks you thru an amazing journey, each song/chapter is a little gem on its own. The title track is probably my favorite, very clearly a case for Corn Flakes and Classics...
Yes great song😎
@@olddisneylandtickets ..two teas, both with sugar, please..
I love Tower of Babel
@@kellywales4059 And yet Elton has only performed that song ONCE in his entire career.
Elton John had so many brilliant songs - but this one is arguably THE best !!
This song is so beautiful; one of my favorites. "Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word" will break your heart.
This song inspired me to embroider a butterfly on the back pocket of my jeans when I was 13! That's the power of the combo of Bernie's lyrics and EJs music.
The first album I ever bought. The entire album is stellar. At 59 I still have the vynil and still smile when I set the needle.
I have loved this song since it came out, and I was very young, early grade school. Just listening with you now, and the things that I have been through in my life, now 55, the tears were streaming down my face. I fully understand, Elton, my friend. I was almost there too. And like you, thank God my music is still alive.
Saw him a few years ago in Youngstown, OH. He was just as great as ever! Played for hours and very connected with the audience. Best Concert Ever!
This song states a relationship I had when I was very young …the lyrics touch every part of me…this man was an absolute genius
This song never fails to bring tears to my eyes...