Elton John – “Rocket Man”

When I think of “Rocket Man” from Elton John I think of 1975.

Probably because it reminds me of a guy at (boarding) school I roomed with for part of that year, whose nickname was connected with a slightly adapted version…

The man himself, i.e. Elton John AKA Reginald Dwight, first came to my attention in 1973 with “Crocodile Rock”, and the following year I took in his “Yellow Brick Road” double album quite extensively, I even have the sheet music of the album.

I finally saw Elton John live some time in the Eighties or Nineties in the Festhalle in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, where I was living at the time.

(Just in case you were wondering, this particular Frankfurt, the one everybody knows, is on the banks of the river Main, pronounced “mine”, and this differentiates it from the city of Frankfurt an der Oder near the German-Polish border in what was previously East Germany; there is even a tiny village in northern Bavaria/Franconia most Germans don’t even know, called Frankfurt an der Hecke…).

Anyway, here is a live version of “Rocket Man” at Wembley, London/England, from 1977:

Rock(et) on…

Paul

Tags: Crocodile Rock, Elton John, Honky Chateau, Music of the Seventies, Reginald Dwight, Rocket Man, Yellow Brick Road

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