{"id":118927,"date":"2024-12-10T12:02:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T12:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/12\/10\/the-50-best-elton-john-songs-according-to-rolling-stone\/"},"modified":"2024-12-10T12:02:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T12:02:16","slug":"the-50-best-elton-john-songs-according-to-rolling-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/12\/10\/the-50-best-elton-john-songs-according-to-rolling-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"The 50 best Elton John songs, according to ‘Rolling Stone’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Never Too Late<\/em>, the new documentary that captures Elton John<\/strong>‘s life and career, debuts on Disney+ on Dec. 13. If you want to prepare by taking a spin through his\u00a0more than 30 albums, Rolling Stone<\/em> has thoughtfully narrowed<\/a> down his discography to the “50 Best Elton John Songs.”<\/p>\n

Coming in at #1 is the song that gave Elton one of his nicknames: “Rocket Man.” In his autobiography, Me<\/em>, Elton recalls crafting that song, plus two others from the\u00a0Honky Ch\u00e2teau<\/em> album, one day over breakfast after Bernie Taupin<\/strong> left him the lyrics on the piano.\u00a0Rolling Stone<\/em> points out the song has been covered by everyone from Neil Diamond<\/strong> to Kate Bush<\/strong> to William Shatner<\/strong>. It was also one of the Elton songs interpolated in his Dua Lipa<\/strong> duet, “Cold Heart.”<\/p>\n

Number 2 on the list is “Tiny Dancer” \u2014 Elton credits the film Almost Famous<\/em> for making that song popular. He wrote in his book, “People forget that when it came out as a single in 1971, it flopped.”<\/p>\n

“Levon” is #3, followed by “Daniel” at #4. The latter has been described by Taupin as “the most misinterpreted song that we’ve ever written.” It’s actually about a blind war veteran, written from the point of view of the veteran’s\u00a0little brother, but Elton wrote that many people felt it was “a coded description of a gay relationship”\u00a0\u2014 which it wasn’t.<\/p>\n

#5 is the enduring “Your Song,” which Elton says Bernie “wrote over breakfast one morning,” and for which he wrote the music in “15 minutes flat.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

The rest of the top 10:
6. “Funeral for a Friend”\/”Love Lies Bleeding”
7. “Candle in the Wind” [the original 1973 version]
8. “Someone Saved My Life Tonight”
9. “Madman Across the Water”
10. “The Bitch Is Back”<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Disney+ Never Too Late, the new documentary that captures Elton John‘s life and career, debuts on Disney+ on Dec. 13. If you want to prepare by taking a spin through his\u00a0more than 30 albums, Rolling Stone has thoughtfully narrowed down his discography to the “50 Best Elton John Songs.” ComingRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}