{"id":2444539,"date":"2019-05-23T09:08:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T15:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=838709"},"modified":"2019-05-23T09:08:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T15:08:03","slug":"flashback-bernie-taupin-and-elton-john-write-their-first-song-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/flashback-bernie-taupin-and-elton-john-write-their-first-song-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Bernie Taupin and Elton John Write Their First Song Together"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There are many reasons for Elton John<\/a> fans to check out the upcoming movie Rocketman.<\/em> The fantasy musical is a wonderful showcase for the music that John created with Bernie Taupin<\/a> during the past 50 years, and Taron Egerton does a magnificent job singing everything from \u201cYour Song\u201d to \u201cAmoreena\u201d and \u201cCrocodile Rock.\u201d The film tells the story of Elton\u2019s life from his days as a child piano prodigy to his commercial breakthrough in 1970 all the way to his life-changing stint in rehab 20 years later.<\/p>\n

But fans that walk into the theater hoping to see history as it actually happened will be extremely disappointed. As Rocketman<\/em> director Dexter Holland explained to Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>, that wasn\u2019t what he cared about when he created the film. \u201cWhat I care about,\u201d he says, \u201cis capturing the moment cinematically and musically.\u201d<\/p>\n

That means that Elton John performs \u201cCrocodile Rock\u201d at his legendary Troubadour 1970 show even though the song wouldn\u2019t be written for another two years. He also sings a bit of 1983\u2019s \u201cI Guess That\u2019s Why They Call It the Blues\u201d when he auditions for a music publisher in 1967, creates \u201cBorder Song\u201d three years before it actually happened, marries Renate Blauel years before the event took place, and so on and so forth. It would be easy for a fact-checker to dissect nearly every scene in the movie, but that would really be missing the point. There are countless Elton John books and documentaries to consult if you just want to learn history. Rocketman<\/em> is about creating a cinematic experience that captures the emotional arc of Elton\u2019s saga.<\/p>\n

That said, it\u2019s worth looking at what actually happened when Elton and Bernie first met. As the movie shows, they were paired up by music publisher Ray Williams of Liberty Records after they both responded to an ad looking for new talent. But it took them three grueling years before they started producing the sort of songs that made them one of the most successful songwriting duos in music history. The first song they teamed up on was \u201cScarecrow,\u201d which you can hear right here. When Taupin looked back on their early days on the Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy<\/em> song \u201cCurtains,\u201d he began with a reference to the song: \u201cI used to know this old Scarecrow\/He was my song\/My joy and sorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last last year, Taupin parted with many of his original lyric manuscripts as part of a giant auction at Julien\u2019s. He had no trouble giving up \u201cI\u2019m Still Still Standing,\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t Go Breaking My Heart\u201d and \u201cRotten Peaches,\u201d but when he came across his original draft of \u201cScarecrow\u201d he simply couldn\u2019t let it go. \u201cThat was really important to me,\u201d he said<\/a>. \u201cMuch more to me than any of the big hits.\u201d<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are many reasons for Elton John fans to check out the upcoming movie Rocketman. The fantasy musical is a wonderful showcase for the music that John created with Bernie Taupin during the past 50 years, and Taron Egerton does a magnificent job singing everything from \u201cYour Song\u201d to \u201cAmoreena\u201d and \u201cCrocodile Rock.\u201d The film […]<\/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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2444539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 16:30:20","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":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}