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Bennie & the jets elton john album cover
Bennie & the jets elton john album cover











Q-Tip featuring Demi Lovato – ‘Don’t Go Breaking My Heart’ More famously known as ‘featuring Mary J Blige’, the queen of soul-hop sounds like she’s turned up assuming she’s just featuring on someone else’s cover of Elton’s 1976 big ballad and dutifully adds all the backing trills and filler beats, presumably expecting someone else to be providing the actual song bit. Mary J Blige – ‘Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word’ Do yourself a favour, skip straight to the mildly psychedelic last 45 seconds. In the end it seemed, as usual, they had a listen to what Coldplay were doing on ‘We All Fall In Love Sometimes’ and then did a more farmery version. Stonking hoedown or yokel folk Coldplay, there isn’t a good result here for Elton’s 1975 ballad. Mumford & Sons – ‘Someone Saved My Life Tonight’Ĭhrist on a posh bloke’s tractor, this has got to be the worst idea since Brexit. Bolstered by operatic backing vocals rather than any of Florence’s trademark jugular gymnastics – at least until its predictably over-wrought finale – ‘Tiny Dancer’ lives to twirl another day. Honestly, you go into this track wincing like a nervous dental patient, waiting for the whole thing to be mashed up and warbled into an incoherent mush by Flo’s titanic tonsils. “Um,” stuttered a flustered workie, “Florence Welsh?” said a flustered workie. “Who can we trust to sensitively handle one of Elton’s most delicate melodies with moderation and grace?” someone must have asked. And my, does he bollock it up, turning this fundamentally tragic Marilyn Monroe tribute into a semi-jaunty country folk nonentity that contains about as much pathos as a tub of soggy Pringles. Sitemap Page was generated in 0.Being signed to Elton’s management company, no doubt Sheeran was front of the queue when they were handing out Elton classics, and nabbed the Big One.

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  • 90210 to Buffy to Glee: How Songs Transformed TV.
  • Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting).
  • So, it ended up being a combination of the ideas I'd started with, with some ideas he had on top." Go ahead.' And he just arranged time to come into the studio and sing it.Īnd then, he made some suggestions and changed some stuff and added some brilliant background parts and so on. He plugged in his in-ear monitors into my laptop and I played it to him and he said, 'I love it. So, we sat backstage and listened to it for the first time. I ended up meeting with him backstage at an Alicia Keys concert he was opening, and I said, 'Did you ever get a chance to listen to the demo I sent you?' He said, 'No, I'm sorry, I don't know what happened to it.' In a Songfacts interview with Asher, he explained: "There was a period when I was hardly in touch with Miguel. Getting Miguel in the studio to record it proved challenging though. Elton John had Peter Asher produce the nine cover versions, which also included Ed Sheeran's take on " Candle In The Wind" and Fall Out Boy's " Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)." Asher, who produced the most successful albums by James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt, put the track together based on the sound of Miguel's album Kaleidoscope Dream. Miguel covered this as part of the 40th edition expanded reissue of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road in 2014, with Wale contributing vocals.











    Bennie & the jets elton john album cover