The Elton John memorial tour, part 2 - Elton John

Whoa there, no messing about with this one. Ask anyone to name an Elton John song & I’d bet that the majority would name ‘Your Song’. And here we are straight in, side 1 track 1. It leaves the rest of the album with something to live up to, although the intervening years have inevitably tainted it with the ‘Our Song’ feeling. Along with 10cc’s ‘I’m Not In Love’ it’s found on many a Valentine’s Day compilation. More prog folk with harpsichords & strings next, before boogying with ‘Take Me To The Pilot’. A couple of moody album fillers (sorry, they’re better than I could write) take us to ‘Sixty years On’, which I have no memory of hearing before but can sing along to. Bizarre. Border Song is another Elton staple, and we spend the remaining four tracks of the album alternating between  boogie &  moody. I’ll talk about the reissue in a later rant.

One hell of a moody album sleeve too.