First listen to Elton John - Someone Saved My Life Tonight (REACTION) 

Loved this album to death when it came out. DAMN Elton John is good

My first tattoo was a butterfly, inspired by this song. I had done it to commemorate my divorce after an abusive marriage.

Probably my favorite Elton John song. Cryptic Bernie Taupin lyrics as usual but Elton and the band just bang it out. Very emotional so perfect.

MASTERPIECE. I'm 59. I Love watching you youngsters enjoying these classics. Thanks and best wishes from North West England.

Might have been the only single, but remember this is from the era of ALBUMS. The entire album is outstanding. This was the first album to debut at #1 on the Billboard album chart, keeping Paul McCartney & Wings' "Venus and Mars" album out of the top spot for weeks.

After what happened today here in the Chicago area, where people lost their lives just trying to enjoy a parade, well here's to those who were saved from the senseless carnage. RIP to the 6 who didn't make it! Amazing song by Elton.

played this in my car on my 8 track stereo all those years ago! im 70 now but this still sounds fantastic!

Thanks for your posting! This album needs to be listened to as a whole. While not exactly a concept album, it is certainly autobiographical and soul baring. Gem, after gem, after gem! The Captain, The Kid, and this amazing collection of musicians are most legendary, and the production on all of EJB albums is essential study for producers and engineers. It could be a whole course! Bernie is such a superb lyricist!

Incredible song. My fav by Elton. Fav line " Thank God my music's still alive. "

Welcome back Daniel. All-time epic, serious subject matter wrapped in an absolutely majestic wall of sound. You'll hear this 50-100 years from now.

It may have generated only one single but this album is INCREDIBLE!

THIS album, IMO, is Elton's BEST album. Autobiographical and brilliant from beginning to glorious end. Check out the title track, "Captain Fantastic..."... or "Curtains." Can't go wrong.

Elton always had great musicians backing him up. Great reaction.

Its true John Baldry talked him out of marriage and Elton ha a suicide attempt, but Bernie wrote the lyrics, and the real problem with Elton in 1968 was if he got married, he would probably have never achieved world success thus the line *"I'm sleeping with myself tonight, thank God my music's still alive"* I think from Bernie's perspective he looked back on their success and realized, wow, if Long John hadn't talked Reggie (Elton) out of getting married we would all probably still be in the poor house. By the way Elton got his last name from vocalist Long John Baldy and saxophonist Elton Dean, both band members with him in the band Bluesology when his name was Reginald Dwight. They were both shocked when he became famous under the name Elton John (LOL). I don't think its a cry out for not wanting to marry a woman like many infer, he was bisexual after all, he later did marry a woman. I am pretty sure its just Bernie's way of saying by not getting married, that saved our careers. I actually think most people trying to break into the music business back in the day had to also be lucky to hit the big time, it was a very rough business ad music execs took advantage of the kids. For ever success there were a 1000 who failed and got jobs. Heck, Steve Perry got lucky, he had quit trying after he failed, and then out of the blue Journey needed a vocalist because something happened with their guy so it was a match made in heaven. Journey changed from a Progressive type band to what they became known fir big ballads.

This is my favorite Elton album, the autobiography written by Bernie of their journey into the music business. I love the entire album, the Deluxe edition includes the whole thing played in concert. The artwork is very good too.

Elton John was huge in the 70's. As big as Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull.

This is such a fantastic song. Elton John is a genius. Thank you for your reaction.

Masterpiece ! His strongest album with this song as its gem….and an awesome artwork

This is a perfect album, great from start to finish!

Burn Down the Mission has always been one of my early favorites of his many great songs.

An absolutely great tune by Elton is Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding. Great song. It'll blow you away.

one of my most favourite elton songs!! i'm one of those oddballs that prefer his more melancholy work. i feel elton really finds his voice in these. other top songs for me: "i guess that's why they call it the blues" "sorry seems to be the hardest word" "candle in the wind" (live from australia - far superior to the studio version, for me)

I always forget that this was an earlier song because it reminds me of later works like "I'm Still Standing" and "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues."

Thanks so much for commenting on one of my favorite singer/songwriters of all time. Have a great 4th!

I grew up with the music of Elton John & had a lot of his records. He was really big in the 70's-80's. He collaborated with Bernie Taupin since 1967 on more than 30 albums. They were one of the best song writing teams. Bernie wrote the lyrics & Elton supplied the melody. They had so many great hits together such as "Your Song", "Levon", "Honky Cat, "Bennie & The Jets", "Crocodile Rock", "Candle In The Wind", "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting", "The Bitch Is Back", "Island Girl", "Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word" etc.

This is one of my favorite EJ songs! Right behind Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Hope you had a nice 4th of July!

The drama in this song is palpable, without devolving into melodrama. One of Elton and Bernie's greatest numbers, from an excellent album. "Captain Fantastic..." was the first record in history to hit #1 on the sales charts, in its very first week of release. This means that the public was so very hungry for Elton's music that folks ran to the record stores immediately to snap up the album. This, despite the fact that the Elton John band was releasing two and sometimes three albums of new material every year -- so there was no scarcity of new Elton music. On the radio, he regularly had two or three different songs vying with each other for airplay, and every hour of the day and night was filled with Elton's songs, two or three times per hour. And we Never. Got. Bored. or. Tired. of. Him. Incidentally, the second album in history to go straight to #1 on the charts was Elton's follow up to this one, "Rock of the Westies", in 1976. It had some good songs on it but it was the beginning of the end for Elton's brilliance. He had fired his drummer and bassist and replaced them with an okay drummer but an awful, unimaginative, boring and stultifyingly simplistic bassist.

Powerful and just love that wall of sound.

one of my favorite Elton John songs. Thanks for the reaction.

I love it when i see a young people loving my music from my time ❤😊

My absolute favorite Elton John song!!!

LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT, GREAT AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM DABNIEL! :) ELTON AND BERNIE AND THIS WAS THE 7TH STRAIGHT MULTI PLATINUM ALBUM DANIEL BETWEEN THAT ( 71-75 ) 5 YEAR WINDOW, HE COULD DO NO WRONG AND HE WAS ON TOP OF THE ROCK WORLD :) NO ROCK BAND EVERRRRR DID SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THAT'S HOW INSANELY CRAZY GOOD HE WAS. HOPE YOU ENJOY IT. AND HAPPYYYY 4TH TO YOU AND YOURS. STAY SAFE

This is my personal favorite Elton John song. Thanks!

Great reaction, Daniel. It's such a powerful song, I'm glad you liked it. I love the piano and backup vocals as well, and the drumming is awesome.

This was my favorite song by Elton and my favorite album of his. Elton also said it was his favorite!

Endless beutifull soulful music he has many more 😊

(Gotta Get) Meal Ticket was the best song on the album IMHO

The man is brilliant as a song writer and singer he is one in a million

Excellent job. This song is sooooon deep and personal. He rarely delved into his personal demons.

Love to see you back. A perfect song. Happy July 4 to y'all. I didn't know that is what the song meant to be. I am sorry for him. But that's what you do best. Showing the music.

My wife had the album. Love Elton. So talented.

Ahhh. I see you've discovered Sir Elton. Jolly good. Carry on mate. 😁

Thank God his music's still alive!

Good to see you back in action, my man. This number reflects something of Elton's absolutely convoluted personal life. When Elton (a gay man) married a woman, his friends were flabbergasted. To say the least, the marriage didn't work out. (This number wasn't about that.)

My fav of all time !!!

So very happy you finally listened to this magnificent song and learned all about it's back story. One of the pinnacles of Elton and Bernie's songwriting achievements. I always think of it as Elton John's Declaration of Independence. So the fact you uploaded it on the Independence Day the 4th of July put a smile on my face. Love you buddy! TRUE FILM FAN 🎵😁🎵

Thank you Daniel, for reacting to and liking the music of the genius Elton John.

great, great record.

As Elton himself has admitted -- "There is no Elton John without Bernie Taupin". Thank God that fate brought them together.

Have missed you man. Great choice. I think I read a long time ago in an interview Elton alluded to a lot of drugs in his past and how they affected him mentally. This is autobiographical. So glad he's still with us.

I love the production of this song..that echoey, deep resonance.

Meaningful song...love the vibe, it feel good after all these years. Great piano Warms the ❤️. 🎶🎤

Slipnoose hanging in my darkest dreams/I’m strangled by your haunted social scene/just a pawn outplayed by a dominating queen…try and unpack THAT one! I love that piano riff too; it grabs you after a verse that just kind of hangs in the air.

He was on a talk show one time and referred to the oven incident as pitiful cry for help

Hello Daniel, Happy 4th of July my friend ! I'm am so glad you got around to listening to this. I have been requesting this for Months. This is my Favorite song by Elton John by far. Elton John is so damn good !! It's a shame that people focus on him being Gay, because they never give his Great music a chance. And miss out on one of the Greatest Singer/Musician of the 20th Century. Thanks for reacting to it ! Have a Blessed Day Daniel and your Family to. We are Legion ⚡

Masterpiece, like so many others of Elton John. I saw him way back in the day in KC. He put on a Royals uniform.

A great album!

This song is more than a clinical review bro... it goes deeper into peoples souls. You wont understand it, until you understand it.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Rocket Man, and Love Lies Bleeding In My Hands. Killer piano jams.

This is one great song that seems to get ignored when you think of the many great songs by Elton. This song gives me chills but also brings back many memories. So happy Daniel that you are featuring this gem and your reaction, kudos dude.

🙂👍 I was 17 years old when this was a hit, and had just graduated from high school. I remember thinking about how once again, Elton John releases a more serious introspective single as a follow up to the light and breezy "Philadelphia Freedom." This was one of a batch of albums that made the late spring and early summer of 1975 memorable, including Paul McCartney's "Venus & Mars," Led Zeppelin's "Physical Graffiti," Steely Dan's "Katy Lied," and The Rolling Stones' "Metamorphosis."

It’s 4 o’clock in the morning. DAMN IT! I know just how he feels.

The last best album from Elton IMO LOVE IT!

Not a lot of singles but IMHO this is Elton’s best Album even ahead of GYBR.

Beautifully majestic...

His original band was INCREDIBLE!

Seems to me that Linda Woodrow gets a raw deal in this analysis. Someone (Elton) failed to be honest with her (and himself?) about his intentions and preferences right from the start. She's as lucky as he to be saved from this doomed arrangement.

One of elton's best!

1975. Elton John ruled the airwaves in the early to mid 1970's, one of those voices when he came on tne radio with a new song you instantly knew it was Elton John. And you knew it would be an instant hit, not matter what the tempo or subject.

This was pure genius!!!

The whole album, where Elton is Captain Fantastic and Bernie is the Brown Dirt Cowboy traces their evolution from struggling collaborators to successful musicians, needs to be heard in its entirety. The closing song "Curtains" is a beautiful expression of platonic love.

I had a drink with Long John Baldry while on a business trip to Ontario in the late '80s. I was at a club and he sat down next to me. I didn't know who he was at the time but he was very friendly and we conversed for a half hour before he excused himself and I discovered that he was the headliner.

"Curtains" off this album is way underrated, excellent drumming in this also

Welcome back! Happy 4th of July!!!! Looking forward to more awesome content!!!!!!

How it changes in the middle.

First record I bought new with my own money. Still love it. Curtains is a real sleeper.

Love this album. Love this song. Thanks Daniel.

My favorite EJ song, by far. Great reaction. I knew you'd like it. I would like to suggest a song I _KNOW_ you'll love, "Turn Me Loose" by Loverboy. Don't be fooled by the goofy band name. This song rocks. If you decide to do it, make sure you do the original long version (5:42), otherwise, you'll get the edited radio/video version, where the guitar🎸solo is cut out, and that's one of the highlights of the song.😀

See you back I was getting scared cannot wait to watch this one! Love you

GREAT to have you back again Daniel! LOOKING FORWARD to MORE of YOUR EJ/ BT Musical Journey.... love your appreciation and INSIGHTS of each EJ song you REACT to... Peace from a LIFELONG EJ fan in Calgary, Alberta, Canada!

Nice reaction and lyric dive Daniel. Good to have you back.

Madman Across The Water - a must listen.

Thank you! ❤️

I'm glad you're back reacting again. Your reactions really stand out because you dive into the lyrics and don't simply give your opinion and end the video. I, for one, appreciate your true interest in the songs my generation grew up with. I was a fifth grader and already an EJ fan when this came out, so immediately, I recognized his voice when it came on the radio and was mesmerized. At 11 years old, I had no idea what the majority of the lyrics meant, but that didn't really matter because the main point was that someone saved his life and a haunting beautiful song was the result. It's been my favorite EJ ever since I heard it that first time.

Elton at his peak, he had cranked out hit after hit after hit over the past 4-5 years, a run that ended less than two years later.

Love your reaction and your analysis of the lyrics.

Speaking of Long John Baldry, yes, you should go there. Go to his album "It Ain't Easy." The first two songs GO TOGETHER. "Conditional Discharge" and "Don't Try to Lay No Boogie Woogie on the King of Rock and Roll." I believe Elton John may have actually produced it but please check that.

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY, DANIEL. 🎉💥🇺🇸

This album is so great. If you’ll notice the drums are the loudest instrument on the song and the whole album.

This song is based on an actual event in Reggies life. The guy that he credits with saving his life was a friend and former band mate long john baldry ie sugar bear.

Elton was the soundtrack of my high school years. Loved this album and this song is just one of my all time favorites. Have always wondered what HP demands were. Thanks

You're back reacting!! Love your music! But your reactions are unique. 🙂

Elton and Bernie are a phenomenal team. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road would be a great listen. There is a reason why Reginald is in the Rock and Roll hall of fame. He is one of my favorite performers. I remember this song at all of our 8th grade dances along with Harmony, Sorry seems to be the hardest word, Levon, Tiny Dancer, Daniel, Elton is fire that’s all I have to say.

The plate reverb on this album was amazing. It made the drums sound next level, especially the ride cymbals for some reason.

Very, very few songs really affect me. I'm 57 years old. This one still 'gets me to the bone' every single time.

This entire album is perfection from start to finish. If you have any sense at all, you will give it a listen. If you haven't already, I would react to Elton John and George Michael performing "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" It is a live performance at a George Michael concert and Elton John joins in - it is Elton's first performance after getting sober. Not knowing if he could still sing sober, he let George take the lead, but no fear Elton was brilliant. This song was recorded by Elton in 1974 and was re-released in this duet George in 1991 and went straight to number 1 everywhere. Check it out.

I think this is my all time favourite album, everything from writing to performance to production to artwork is outstanding and still sounds tremendous nearly 50 years on.

1973-1976 in my opinion is Elton at his peak.

I still have 2 albums with the poster and booklet Great album

Ps yeah I always trap myself into hearing Bernie’s lyrics and appLying them to Elton’s life.