Madeline Burke
Madeline Burke
Follow

Someone Saved My Life Tonight

Posted almost 4 years ago
In 1969, Elton John tried to commit suicide after having relationship problems with a woman he was engaged to. Bernie Taupin and Long John Baldry, who was openly gay, found him, and Baldry talked him out of marrying the woman, helping to make John more comfortable with his sexuality. The hit song "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" from Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy was written about the experience.
0

Comments (7)

  1. fairportfan
    fairportfan says The "John" part of Elton's name is in tribute to Long John; bothe Elton and Rod Stewart started out in Long John's bands. In 1970/71, Elton and Rod each produced an album-worth of tracks for Long John, which wound up being released as two LPs (*Everything Stops for Tea* and [i think] *It Ain't Easy*) with one side of each LP being tracks produced by Elton and one side being tracks produced by Rod. Elton played some piano and Rod contributed vocals to one track: ~4XiKB821RN4.mp3~ Consider the irony inherent in the fact that it's 2008, and this album was released thirty-seven years ago in 1971 as Long John talks about how *long* it's been since he and Rod last sang together - way back in 1965, six years earlier...
    Permalink posted 03/31/2008
  2. Madeline Burke
    Madeline Burke says Thanks for that! How cool! Who is the woman on this track? By the way...it's nice to have another female perspective 'round here.
    Permalink posted 03/31/2008
  3. fairportfan
    fairportfan says Ummm ... that's Rod Stewart.
    Permalink posted 03/31/2008
  4. Madeline Burke
    Madeline Burke says Sooorrrryyyy 'bout that... I've got five other things going on over here...Yikes...so, it is!!!
    Permalink posted 03/31/2008
  5. ROCKNROLLPIMP
    ROCKNROLLPIMP says Elton John,Kiss and Aerosmith were 3 of my favs as a 13 year old lotsa taunting about E.J. i had books on him, the posters,lp covers from this album pretty much knew everything about his life as a child up till 1976 Elton jumped the shark with Rock of the Westies/Blue Moves i tell you what Captain Fantastic and Tumbleweed Connection are still listened to quite a bit these days RAWK!
    Permalink posted 03/31/2008
  6. runobodyii
    runobodyii says I didn't know the story of this song. Thanks.
    Permalink posted 03/31/2008
  7. dermahrk
    dermahrk says Well, it didn't work, as Elton at a later date *did* marry a woman, with predictable results.
    Permalink posted 04/01/2008

Comment on this Post

Login using email and password below.

Forgot Password?

OR login using Facebook Connect

Connect

Don't have an account?
Join MOG. It's Free!

 

© 2006-2012 Mog Inc. All Rights Reserved