🎵 Elton John - Rocket Man REACTION

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@Kari_B61ex 2 года назад

I was raised on Elton John and Bernie Taupin music - my darling dad was a massive fan, I heard their music every day of my life and watched my dad playing 'air piano'. Dad died far too young at 48 (I was in my early twenties) I know that he will be up there in heaven smiling down on me knowing that this still brings a smile to my face. He was my Rocket Man - and I will always be his Tiny Dancer.

@Bee-28 2 года назад

Mehh, you just made me tear up! Bless you & your dad!

@dene39 2 года назад

$@jimfracasso7435$

@jimfracasso7435 2 года назад

Love that music comforts us in grief, along with celebrating our triumphs. My father past when I was 25, and now hearing certain songs it's almost as if I can feel him hug me!

@IshwaraYogaNET 2 года назад

💕

@lewis9702 2 года назад

Sorry to hear about your Dad's early passing.

@frankpentangeli7945 2 года назад

Doesn't matter what genre this is. It's just beautiful music, that's the only important thing. If you get caught up trying to figure out what genre it is or what the song means, you miss the emotional impact of it. Back in the early 70s people couldn't care less about genres anyway. The 60s taught us that in music anything goes. The 70s took that idea and ran with it. Back then on any one FM radio station you could hear all kinds of new and different stuff, from Black Sabbath to Elton John to Yes to Deep Purple to Cat Stevens to Pink Floyd to Bob Dylan and Stevie Wonder. We didn't care ... it was all fantastic and new! Especially if you were high. The DJs themselves were wasted half the time, and sometimes just forgot to change the record so that we heard the repetitive click of the needle on the turntable reaching the end of one album side for 5 minutes at a time while the DJs were out smoking a joint or had simply fallen asleep in their chair. Man, those were the days! There's no genre to describe that experience.

@bellodrade 2 года назад

I hear ya. I like these reactions but I have a big point of contention with them. It's that there is no real time context. These songs were the soundtrack to our lives. You have to be in the moment to fully appreciate their impact and beauty. Your pointed it out cleary- the music was wide and varied. And the times were different. Can't magically transfer those feelings and attitudes to anyone not of that period. All these reactors have is historical perspective. And that is a shame.

@donnawoods8039 2 года назад

That's true... in the 70's we listened to everything. I remember listening to Disco and loving it, Soul and loving it, Rock and loving it. Even Big Band.

@robs715 2 года назад

It’s shit

@crazyfingers19 2 года назад

Yeah baby. I remember wrapping the antennae of my old stereo in aluminum foil so I could barely pick up Starview92 from about 30 miles away. early “Album Oriented Rock (AOR)” stations were so cool. Not only did they spin the most eclectic mix of jams in their full album glory but the stayed on all night and really hit the deeps cuts overnight. Good time to be alive, at least from that perspective.

@525569andrea 2 года назад

That’s so funny ☺️ one of my good friends is 65 (big age difference but we music brings us all together) and he’s been collecting vinyls since he was six (has over 15k) and he was a DJ throughout the entire era, and still is! And he has so many stories from DJ’ing 70s 😊 always brings a smile to my face!

@jamesdignanmusic2765 2 года назад

A timeless classic. You'll probably have noticed that Elton John, David Bowie, and other artists were singing about space at this time... the early 1970s were the time of Apollo space flights to the moon, so it was very much in public consciousness. Also, lots of excuses to mix lyrics about the reality of outer space and being affected by other types of "high". And yes, as far as genre is concerned "Elton John" just about covers it.

@caperboy1169 2 года назад

It was inspired by stories written by Ray Bradbury

@dickhutchinson2010 Год назад

Spaceman by Harry Nilsson

@jamesdignanmusic2765 Год назад

@@caperboy1169 "The Martian Chronicles", presumably?

@larryh.5229 2 года назад

This song was one of two Elton John songs for a classmate's funeral our senior year in 1986. The other was "Daniel". Rest in Peace Rocky, you are still in our thoughts.

@ashleydixon4613 2 года назад

Oh, Daniel-another great song by Elton!

@_MOORE_1986 2 года назад

Daniel is my name and I was born in 1986. Just thought I would share lol

@jessicaelliott827 2 года назад

Daniel is my fav

@kennethgoin628 2 года назад

Please forgive me, but are you talking about Rocky Dennis by chance?

@chrislegner4816 2 года назад

The mark of true musical greatness. A song you've heard a million times that still never gets old.

@jakerazmataz852 Год назад

Pretty much every song I grew up with, born in '62. 😁

@carolynnewcomb2153 2 года назад

I think Lex got the idea right of just moving to the music and enjoying the beautiful melody. Bernie Taupin’s lyrics have always been a little hard for me to understand- but it’s often like poetry.

@Ou81gi812 2 года назад

It IS poetry…set to music!!! Good observation.

@Yotraj 2 года назад

Ya gotta remember... it was 1969 when We put the first man on the moon... and this song was released in 1972. Putting a man on the moon was a really big deal to all earthlings back then. This is kinda an homage song to the astronauts of the day.

@friderckcougher97 2 года назад

Kennedy's most irresponsible public act- putting a deadline on something involving human lives is not something to gamble with- Could have been worded much nobler by saying we are dedicated to landing a man on the moon and putting all resources unto it.

@damiandiaz6727 Год назад

The song is actually a metaphor about addiction

@djl9919 2 года назад

Such a great song, thank you Elton & Bernie. Rock on Brad & Lex

@JohnJohn-qv4mg 2 года назад

Brillant song from a famous depressed musician about how it feels to be a famous depressed musician. Lonely, no one knows how he truly feels, etc etc etc

@jsipler 2 года назад

Well said’ I was looking for the words to say this.... it would have taken me 3 paragraphs and not come close to how easy you said it. Good iob

@glennburch1081 2 года назад

Saw him 5-6 years ago in Virginia Beach. He can't hit the high notes anymore, but he CRUSHED this song. One of the best songs, live, that I have ever heard performed. As usual, great reaction guys,TY.

@blackwolf6082 2 года назад

When Ozzy wrote about a werewolf (Bark at the moon) do you think he was speaking from personal experience? Rocket Man is a journey of what it might be like.

@metetural9140 2 года назад

Hey atleast he didn't say "I think it's about drugs."

@marjolewis9405 2 года назад

I think Ozzy really is a werewolf.

@Katsem 2 года назад

Ozzy didn’t write Bark at then Moon. He is not a songwriter, he contributes to the songs he takes full credit for writing, except possibly where Randy Rhoads was concerned. Ozzy hums a bit, maybe comes up with a line, leaves the lyrics and music to the others. In the case of Bark - Bob Daisley wrote the lyrics, and Jake E Lee the guitar. They both have interview where they talk about never getting credit.

@deltabravo287 2 года назад

The melody of the chorus of this song is just a masterpiece - the whole song is great - but that part is just extra fantastic. Elton John has so many songs that are just incredible.

@bellodrade 2 года назад

Bernie and Elton created a timeless classic with this one.

@bobschenkel7921 2 года назад

Early Elton, like with most artists, is the best Elton. Usually, after some success, the artist starts chasing success, instead of being true to him or her self. Lately, Elton comes and goes, but it is always listenable.

@1234uz 2 года назад

Got to see him in concert in 2012 and his Live Shows are Kick Ass, He does 4 Hours NON STOP no breaks and plays all his own songs . He had the Staple Sisters as his back up Vocals as well .

@JamaisCascio 2 года назад

For Lex: Yep, Mars is *very* cold. At its warmest, it's just about freezing. Most of the time it's well below zero.

@TroyBoyleAtheistAdvocate 2 года назад

Mostly. But at the equator, say around where Cuba would be on Earth, Mars can get up to 70 degrees Fahrenheit. Just a normal Spring temperature in most of the U.S. If our astronauts stayed in the equatorial region, daytime temps would not be bad at all. Still need pressure suits and oxygen, but not so much insulation and padding.

@xlerb_again_to_music7908 2 года назад

annnd... no magnetosphere (= no big planetary magnetic field from the core) which means the Sun's solar wind hits and strips off the atmosphere (Earth's magnetosphere forces solar wind around our planet). Mars used to have decent atmos + flowing water; now lost as no protective magnetic shell abt Mars. Oh, the ground is (? either) acidic or alkali so would eat your boots as you stand on it. No place for kids, indeed.

@Stefan- 2 года назад

Yeah, it can get as cold as -150 degres Celsius so it can definately be cold as hell.

@RhettAnderson 2 года назад

At the time this was considered "rock" and "pop". Rock was a much bigger category than it is today. Rock ballads were very common.

@Filbi 2 года назад

Yeah, I think this fits solidly in the category of "soft rock".

@Day0One 2 года назад

The song can be interpreted as a symbol of how rock stars are isolated from their friends, family, and from the real world by those with power in the music industry. Some lyric analysis as part of the rock star isolation theory...

@doomhunter697 2 года назад

And flat out wrong. Its based on a short story by Ray Bradbury of the same name.

@Nikita-ez4ko 2 года назад

@@doomhunter697 they did say that you can interpret it, not that it's factual. Yes it is inspired from the story of "The Rocketman" but a lot of people like to think of it as a story of loneliness.

@joesmith8725 2 года назад

I'd suggest Echo & the Bunnymen "The Killing Moon" (post-punk, new wave) , The Church " Under the Milky way" (post-punk, new wave/alt rock), Smashing Pumpkins "Rocket" ( Alt rock, grunge, shoegaze/psychedelic rock), HUM "Stars" (alt rock, punk/post punk), Muse "Knights of Cydonia" (alt rock, prog rock/space rock) as well to fit the next Space stream !

@ronparsons8786 2 года назад

Now we're talking :-)

@joesmith8725 2 года назад

Elton John has wonderful music. It's considered soft rock, piano rock.

@OronOfMontreal 2 года назад

I disagree, having grown up during Elton's early career. He is a legitimate, bone fide rocker, when he wants to be.

@matttrone6408 2 года назад

Billy Joel in the same category as well I believe. Great, amazing music!

@joesmith8725 2 года назад

@@matttrone6408 You are correct. Agreed, good music.

@danalyntuthill1538 2 года назад

This was pure pop. Rock is harder. And as time went on people started blending genres and creating new sounds. Don't worry about the genres but do you like it. Back in the' 70s radio was not segregated. You would hear different styles of music on one radio station. It hasn't been that way for a long time.

@historianswag8517 2 года назад

He is talking about his vicious drug use and living like a rock "star" out in space. He really did miss elements of the life that he had to leave behind to be a star. He also recognized that you cannot raise kids on Mars (ie - you cannot have a normal life when you are in a new city every night and on tons of drugs)

@willpina 2 года назад

@@krisfox3537 lmao! nah, it's about being famous and living the fast life.

@eatonbeaver6972 2 года назад

According to wiki its about a Mars bound Astronaut's mixed feelings of leaving home to work in space. I like the idea historian points out more however LOL Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics by the way so with that in mind it's easier to see how it actually is about space than stardoms effects.

@davidvsr 2 года назад

well said...

@OutOnTheTiles Год назад

Elton wasn’t using drugs in 72. Where you come up with this shit?!? Talking out of your ass.

@OutOnTheTiles Год назад

@@willpina no it’s not 😂😂😂😂. Educate yourself. It’s about an astronaut and that’s it.

@craigteller5933 2 года назад

Always thought of it was about addiction. Choosing getting high over your family and the depression, loneliness and guilt coming down.

@mizofan Год назад

It was influenced by a Ray Bradbury book on space. Elton wasn't yet into drugs or addicted at that time. He soon became a cocaine addict though, cleaned up round 1990 (and alcohol too).

@adgato75 2 года назад

Elton is an amazing entertainer. Always in the conversation for one of the best ever.

@sourgir-wh6xd 2 года назад

Anything by Elton John is going to be amazing😍🎤🎧

@MySherry10 2 года назад

This is just beautiful , just enjoy the music this is what its about, its a easy listening wonderful song love the inflections in his voice

@scottcahoon1669 2 года назад

Seen this song in concert 🔥! Elton John was 61 yrs old an still rocking!!!!

@doomhunter697 2 года назад

The lyrics were written by Bernie Taupin, who wrote most of Elton's lyrics. He was the 'invisible' half of the team. The song is based upon a short story of the same name by Ray Bradbury. Written in the 1950's, he was envisioning a time when ''Rocket Men" (the term astronaut was not being used yet) would become mundane, and the long trips were a lot like those sailors went on- extended time away. Bernie had read the story, and it inspired him to write the song.

@treyphan420 2 года назад

Cocaine is a helluva drug😊

@LynnThompsonAuthor 2 года назад

This is a classic! Came out when I was in junior high school (now called "middle school") and was on the radio all the time. Everybody knew every word to it and could sing along. Early Elton John music was amazing! Less mainstream and predictable than his later stuff. Bowie had just come out with the song "Space Oddity" a few years before this song came out (same year as the first moon landing), and we were all still pretty obsessed with space in the early '70s. There were still moon missions going on then. This song tapped into all of that with a catchy chorus and a sense of ennui that may have been the experience of some who worked in the space business.

@clownzzz4837 2 года назад

I was in 8th or 9th grade. So many great songs.

@michaelbriefs9764 2 года назад

The genre is Rock/Pop, but it's more specifically the "Singer/Song Writer" genre. He's in the company of other S/SW artists like Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Joni MItchell, Paul Simon and others.

@seanlynch1185 2 года назад

Can you really say EJ was a singer song-writer when he didn't write the lyrics?

@michaelbriefs9764 2 года назад

@@seanlynch1185 yes. In Elton’s case, he was part of a team/collaboration with the lyric writer. Elton wrote the music and sang the songs and Bernie penned the words.

@mredible475 2 года назад

His early songs are soo good.

@jamesrobertson2361 2 года назад

When William Shatner went to space it gave him the feeling of endless time and a vision of death. It emphasized the uniqueness of earth and its life. All space science fiction seems to incorporate this element and Elton and Bernie's song does it in music.

@ignatzmuskrat3000 2 года назад

Bill covered Rocket Man and its a hoot. SO campy.

@stevemariman8769 2 года назад

Elton John definitely has a sound of his own. "Philadelphia Freedom" or "The Bitch Is Back" were from around that time too, and very catchy.

@simpleiowan3123 2 года назад

It’s an allegory for the loneliness and desperation which is born from addiction. Heavy stuff. Another great reaction 👍

@lindazee 2 года назад

Of all the explanations on meaning, this one seems the most plausible.

@thepunadude 2 года назад

ONE OF HIS LAST GREAT MUSICAL PIECES, AFTER THAT WAS FLUFF! BEST: 11/17/70, TUMBLEWEED CONNECTION, MADMAN ACROSS THE WATER AND HONKEY CHATEAU, LYRICS: BERNIE TAUPIN!

@dsomerville5293 2 года назад

What about Caribou from 74? The Bitch is Back. Not a fluff LP at all

@Itelkner 2 года назад

Now you need to react to William Shatner's version of Rocket Man. Then Chris Elliott's version!

@1BEAST1775 2 года назад

Elton did alot of great songs but one of my all time favorite songs period was " I guess that's why they call it the blues" always reminds me of cruising around my hometown at night while it was raining 🌧

@DaveThomson 2 года назад

was my moms favorite Elton song. Definitely the one that gets to me the most.

@gizzy2403 2 года назад

My favorite too, but doesn't get much recognition. He has soooo many awesome songs

@markharris1125 2 года назад

It's nice to look back at the 80s but of course he stopped recording in 1975. Well, according to reaction channels, anyway.

@HLG1962 2 года назад

This is metaphorical. It's not about being an astronaut. The song is about fame, living in the limelight, and enduring the excess that comes with it. Money, drugs, sex, loneliness, ect...

@proud2bamerican 2 года назад

From my experience it went from Rock and Roll, to Rock, to Soft Rock and Hard Rock, then metal. Hall and Oates would be Soft Rock and Aerosmith would be Hard Rock. Chuck Berry would be Rock and Roll. Fleetwood Mac would be Rock. IMO

@s.mcpherson6354 2 года назад

I think she means it felt *expansive*. It was like the final repeated lines in the song where a quasi-Doppler effect, getting quieter as his rocket ship got further and further away, hence the sense of size and scale it gave Lex.

@Yotraj 2 года назад

I just watched another's reaction to watching "The Kennedy Center Honors: Led Zeppelin Tribute 2012". You guys would make a great reaction to this one.

@steveyoung2317 2 года назад

His best song. Next is 'The One'. Always epic don't let sun go down me

@markharris1125 2 года назад

I'd go for 'This Train Don't Stop There Anymore' and then 'the One' but thanks for the shout out for the 90s. However, as far as reaction channels go, Elton stopped recording in 1975.

@pauljansen1137 2 года назад

Wow...would you believe I am watching the movie "Rocket Man" at this very moment...😀!

@sourisvoleur4854 2 года назад

The other space song that was a huge hit at that time was "Space Oddity" by David Bowie. I don't know if you guys have done that one yet, but it's a great pairing with this one. They're so VERY different, even though they are both about an astronaut.

@alrivers2297 2 года назад

They have done it

@llschnitz 2 года назад

The lyricist Bernie Taupin has explained the thoughts behind this song. In 1972 every school boy wanted to be an astronaut - the most exciting job one could ever dream of - an adventurer of the best kind. In the future, Taupin guessed, being an astronaut will be just a mundane every day job. This astronaut in the song is bored with his job, isolated, and alienated from his family. He hates his job. And he doesn't feel like a hero, but just a guy doing a frustrating lonely job. The music, with the synthesizers and the slide guitar technique, are supposed to mimic the sound of a rocket being launched into space and flying around. Its the Wonderful Ambient sound that really gets you on this one. This was only Elton's Second top ten hit, before he became a superstar.

@steveturuba8077 2 года назад

oh girl if u don't realize mars is cold...duh

@sharpmo99ify Год назад

Do reaction of Rocket Man by Sara James ❤

@swiftslick 2 года назад

I would label Elton John under the genre of Rock. However, his style is eclectic and often different from anything labeled in that category. His music catalog is one of very few rabbit holes you can fall into and rarely find a bad song. If you take the journey and delve deeper into his catalog, you won’t be disappointed.

@bianchiveloce1 2 года назад

Well, growing up as a kid in the '70s, I imagined this song was about the lead character Astronaut Tony Nelson in the television show I Dream of Jeannie. Now, that I'm much, much, much older, when I hear this song today, I think of North Korean Leader Kim "Rocket Man" Jong-un. I tell ya, it sucks to get old and lose your innocence

@albertmassingo4249 2 года назад

Elton John did not write his own lyrics a man and friend of his name Bernie Tupin did

@tvgator1 2 года назад

Lex is killing it; ALOT of Elton John music is metaphorical. Almost all of it. It’s also some of the most melodically satisfying music ever created. His catalog is gigantic; you two have barely scratched the surface. Try FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND or MADMAN ACROSS THE WATER. He’s got complex songs and lighthearted songs as well. Try CROCODILE ROCK or PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM. There’s so much. And it’s all good stuff. You guys will be blown away.

@mizofan Год назад

I slightly prefer the Tumbleweed Connection extra track version of Madman across the Water to the one on MATW album itself. Crocodile Rock is not one I, Elton or Bernie like much, though it was his first #1 single in USA!

@tvgator1 Год назад

@@mizofan Oh I like that one; it’s more scaled back with more electric guitar, but overall I pick the original by a hair because of all the symphonic elements. But the Tumbleweed version definitely kicks ass.

@thefatman2780 2 года назад

LIFE ON THE ROAD AS A ROCKSTAR. AT HOME HE IS JUST HIM. ON TOUR HE IS A ROCKET MAN.

@GSD-hd1yh Год назад

Mariner 4, which flew by Mars on July 14, 1965, found that Mars has an atmospheric pressure of only 1 to 2 percent of the Earth's. Temperatures on Mars average about -81 degrees F. However, temperatures range from around -220 degrees F. in the wintertime at the poles, to +70 degrees F.

@lantzkeefer6 2 года назад

This song is so good,Elton had such a huge catalog of incredible music,love this definitely one of my favorites,love Philadelphia Freedom also, great choice.Hey what is going on today is this Space song day,is this on purpose.🙈

@brianfranklinlee8490 2 года назад

The Apollo 1 was set for launch in 1967. But before it launched there was a fire that killed the 3 Astronauts on board. It killed Gus Grissum, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee. So Elton in 1972 released Rocket Man. As an Homage I guess. I was 11 when it happened. I like living close to the cape. You guy's can see take offs from where you live. Especially at night. 🐊🌞😎🌴😜🤔😁

@megarn7201 2 года назад

love your videos and seeing you guys discover so many song I’ve grown up with or found a long the way. If you are checking out Elton John please listen to I’m Still Standing, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Benny and the Jets, Saturday Nights Alright, Crocodile rock, Honky cat, Something About the Way You Look Tonight, I Want Love, Don’t Go Breaking My Heart, Candle in the Wind a million more. Between Elton and Queen songs, I have a hard time deciding my favorites.

@LauraBunny 2 года назад

Elton doesn't write most of his lyrics, so you would have to ask his long-time songwriting (lyric writing) partner, Bernie Taupin, what HE'S thinking when he writes the lyrics 😉. I grew up listening to this music, and it takes me back to when my mom, dad, and brother were still here, I was about six years old, and all was right with the world. Another great song of theirs that hits me like that is SOMEONE SAVED MY LIFE TONIGHT. If you're ever looking for more Elton to react to, please consider that one. A great runner-up to that is one from the 90s called THE ONE. ✌

@VIDSTORAGE 2 года назад

For a long time many like myself many thought it was about an astronaut in an imaginary way, and if you never heard it much it gives you that vibe without thinking about it too much because of that spaced out texture it has ...It is basically about being on the road and traveling too much as in being a like a rocket man and having to propel himself to point a to point b as fast as possible every day...Mars is the metaphor of being in places you really don't know at all and you cannot raise you child in a proper way like that..

@sattymike0155 2 года назад

Interesting, I had always kind of thought it was about being a secret addict as a family man but the lyrics don’t all line up with that now that I look at them.

@lennycook206 2 года назад

All that and of course the undercurrent of coca cola abuse...

@VIDSTORAGE 2 года назад

@@sattymike0155 Yea,very funny ,I can understand that,and I have heard some other one too....More people have wondered about what it meant than any other well known song probably ..I heard what Bernie Taupin actually meant by the song on some video a while back and it is a very basic message about his concerns of living fast and traveling too much..

@VIDSTORAGE 2 года назад

@@lennycook206 Maybe getting Coked could be code for the rocket shooting to mars

@belovedabstract3568 Год назад

Bernie said he wrote this song after hearing another song by the same name ROCKET MAN , by PEARLS BEFORE SWINE , written by Tom Rapp the band leader and singer . it would be great if you could react to that one also . its not the same song , bernie just got the idea from it , sort of a song about a song , a tribute to it

@prettyboyfloydms 2 года назад

It's a metaphors for a person that's hooked on drugs!!! His wife kicks him out at "zero hour-9 am"!!!! (My personal opinion only)

@cindyjensen2185 2 года назад

Welcome to the Rabbit hole of Sir Elton John, its deep...... Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is my all time favorite.

@quarkwrok 2 года назад

I'd call Elton John's more poppy early 70's stuff glam rock. Supersonic Rocket Ship by the Kinks is another space rocket song you gotta do!

@michaelkearney2186 2 года назад

You guys are on a sci-fi theme today apparently Lol That’s cool, you’re picking awesome songs

@ThoughtPolice1984 2 года назад

Maynard does a good cover of this. Coming from a "psychonaut" it hits different. William Shatner does a great cover too. 🤣

@slaughery Год назад

Y’all are doing a really good job with your reviews and your entertaining. You make me happy. Thank you.

@alboystewart2212 2 года назад

Goodbye yellow brick road Benny and the jets Song for guy Sorry seems to be the hardest word Pinball wizard ( from tommy) Someone saved my life tonight The bitch is back

@1bigrowdy 2 года назад

First Bernie Taupin wrote this .Reality doesn't need to be attached to everything. Don't get caught up in genres a Rock station would play this or Grand Funk or Steppenwolf and all would have something like this in their catalog. Sweet music all.

@gregj1295 2 года назад

If you have to have a genre for it , I would call it Soft Rock or Space Rock but I just call it good music. Love your channel!

@gilamonster2020 2 года назад

I love Elton John! Saw him in concert twice in Tucson back in the 70s. This song pre-dated his “coming out“ as gay. When he says “I’m not the man they think I am at all, I’m a rocket man” you just got a wonder if he wasn’t sending out a hint of what he would later disclose. Lex is right, it was a metaphor.

@MRoyClark 2 года назад

The lyrics (like most classic Elton John songs) were by Bernie Taupin, who isn't gay. Cool coincidence in the lyrics. I don't think he was trying to out Elton, though.

@styleyriley 2 года назад

Bernie Taupin is the man behind the songs, Elton just interprets them....pretty damn well!

@willblood7082 2 года назад

FYI, Elton never wrote any of his songs. Bernie Taupin was his business partner and songwriter.

@DanielTaylorOCMD 2 года назад

When I was around 3 years old (1973) my fathers best friend gave me a 45 (vinyl) and side A was the song Daniel, the reason it was given to me. I hate that song! Side B, however, was this song and I credit it to some extent to giving me an appreciation at an early age for music and the emotions it can convey. I must have played side B thousands of times!

@joesmith8725 2 года назад

Yes, Lex. Parts of outer space is very cold. lol Depending where.

@colinbrannon2051 2 года назад

I always thought of this song as being about drug addiction and "Space" being a euphamism for being alone and relapsing

@MRoyClark 2 года назад

Genre-wise, Elton John Falls under a few different headings. Rock, Pop, Pop/Rock, and Singer Songwriter are the main ones, but when "Rocket Man" was released, early in his career, he was part of the UK Glam Rock (1971-75) movement, alongside David Bowie, T. Rex, Roxy Music, early Queen, Sparks, The Sweet, Slade, and lots of others. "Rocket Man" itself was directly influenced by David Bowie's only pre-Glam hit, 1969's "Space Oddity" but was a hit around the same time as David Bowie's similarly titled UK Glam hit "Starman" which you reacted to today, as well. Several early Elton John songs were major Glam Rock hits, including "Honky Cat", "Crocodile Rock", "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", "The Bitch Is Back", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (cover, The Beatles), "Bennie and The Jets", and "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting". Elton moved on from UK Glam around 1975-76, when everyone else in the genre moved on. While some acts leaned more toward Rock, much like Bowie and Roxy Music, he started leaning more toward R&B, Soul, Funk, and Disco in the late 70s, and adopted a more synth and drum machine based oriented in the mid-1980s. But at his core, there are always his piano ballads. Some of his best stuff was still coming out in the 1980s, but by the 1990s, it all kinda became Disney-by-numbers soundalike mush (even if he was still cranking out sizeable hits), but for a couple of decades there, he was one of the best and biggest performers around.

@EdMan57 2 года назад

I heard in an interview that Bernis wrote the lyrics to Rockett Man as a metaphor for cocaine addiction. Even Elton didn't know until later the interviewer told him what Bernie had told him. Maybe I dreamed it up,so....

@gcollinbyrne 2 года назад

Save yourself while you still have a soul. He is truly thoughtless and worse. I wish you luck, you're clever and thoughtful

@axiomist4488 Год назад

The average temperature on Mars is 80 below zero, but in winter it ranges from 220 below to 70 above !

@bobdelp2023 2 года назад

ELTON AND BERNIE WERE SO INSPIRED BY DAVID BOWIE'S ( SPACE ODDITY ) THAT THEY WOUND CREATING THEIR OWN MASTERPIECE GOLDMINE! :)

@mjweber0313 Год назад

Most people don't know it was originally written by William Shatner

@luckyenuff72 2 года назад

Brad you’re “over reacting” on rhe lyrics. I love y’all but please do some research before you react.

@gotrhythm1 2 года назад

I would classify this as "soft rock", or "easy listening"

@joshualaird5303 2 года назад

The average temp on mars is -81F.... Yes, that is cold

@jackgilchrist 2 года назад

I don't think I've ever met anyone who doesn't like Elton John, especially his early stuff. Doesn't matter if you're 80 or 18. Elton John was a major influence on Jerry Cantrell, the guitarist of Alice in Chains. And on many, many other musicians of various styles. Elton and Bernie Taupin were the songwriting team that produced these great songs and albums.

@Yotraj 2 года назад

BTW... if you do do the The Kennedy Center Honors: Led Zeppelin show... PLEASE... do the whole show! Lot's of good stuff in there.

@Paulinha.2016 Год назад

This song reminds me of Billie Jean King and Marilyn Barnett in the elevator ❤❤

@judgildea 2 года назад

Old school music was waaay more about how you interpret it listening to it then just a literal meaning..lol

@toot0913 2 года назад

It’s ALL Rock and Roll. Seriously.

@supertrexandroidx 2 года назад

Role-playing and metaphors are good descriptors. Although you can interpret it as saying the man in the song is a real astronaut, if you want, I think this is mainly about a man who in his mind, in his dreams, is a lot more than his family thinks he is at home, but being the man in his dreams - being an astronaut living on Mars, for example - isn't exactly conducive to having a family and raising your kids. And he keeps coming back around to those opposing polarities. You get the drift!