{"id":483123,"date":"2019-03-07T13:06:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T20:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=804645"},"modified":"2019-03-07T13:06:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T20:06:04","slug":"flashback-elton-john-plays-an-early-version-of-tiny-dancer-in-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/flashback-elton-john-plays-an-early-version-of-tiny-dancer-in-1970\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Elton John Plays an Early Version of \u2018Tiny Dancer\u2019 in 1970"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Elton John<\/a>\u2019s Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour reached New York city this week with two shows at Madison Square Garden and two shows at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Wednesday\u2019s Garden show was both his 70th time playing MSG and his 70th concert of the tour. The 24-song set hasn\u2019t changed a single time since opening night in Allentown, Pennsylvania,<\/a> back in September, but it\u2019s a great balance of big hits and deeper cuts like \u201cIndian Sunset\u201d and \u201cBelieve, so few fans are complaining.<\/p>\n

The fifth song of the night is \u201cTiny Dancer,\u201d which is always met by roars of glee and an arena-wide singalong. The song stalled out at Number 41 on the Hot 100 in America when it came out in 1971, but thanks to movies like Almost Famous<\/em> and constant play on classic-rock radio, it has become one of his most beloved tunes.<\/p>\n

Check out this amazing archival video from 1970 when a camera crew caught up with Elton right after he wrote the song with his lyricist Bernie Taupin<\/a>. \u201cThese are all lyrics and I just sift through them,\u201d John says from behind a piano. \u201cThere\u2019s one here I did just the other day called \u2018Tiny Dancer,\u2019 which is about Bernie\u2019s girlfriend. I looked through all them and this is the one I fancied doing, mainly because I knew Bernie would like me to do this one.\u201d<\/p>\n

He then explains exactly how he transferred Bernie\u2019s lyrics into a song. \u201cLook at the words,\u201d he says, reading off the first verse of the song straight from the original manuscript. \u201cAs soon as you get to the word \u2018ballerina\u2019 you know it\u2019s not going to be fast. It\u2019s going to be gentle and sort of quite slow.\u201d At that point, he plays an early version of the tune and walks the camera crew through his thought process as he wrote it. It\u2019s absolutely remarkable to watch.<\/p>\n

Elton\u2019s farewell tour is going to stay on the road for at least the next two years since he\u2019s pledged to take it to every market on the planet. Ticket sales have been extremely brisk, and if the upcoming biopic Rocketman<\/em> does anywhere near the business of Bohemian Rhapsody<\/em> last year, they\u2019ll be even harder to come by. There\u2019s no word yet on where the final show will take place, but should he do it at the Troubadour in Los Angeles \u2014 the scene of his American debut in 1970 \u2014 it\u2019ll be the toughest ticket to score since Guns N\u2019 Roses launched their reunion tour there in 2016.<\/p>\n

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Elton John\u2019s Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour reached New York city this week with two shows at Madison Square Garden and two shows at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Wednesday\u2019s Garden show was both his 70th time playing MSG and his 70th concert of the tour. The 24-song set hasn\u2019t changed a single time since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-483123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 02:28:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}