The Elton John memorial tour, part 15 - Blue Moves

So, the twelfth studio album which will inevitably be compared to the previous double, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. More orchestral but less coherent it’s certainly not on a par with that. The only single I’m aware of without checking is ‘Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word’, which I think typifies the softer feel of the album after Rock of the Westies. ‘Cage the Songbird’ refers to Edith Piaf so my limited musical references were being broadened but even tracks like ‘Crazy Water’ and ‘One Horse Town’ can’t lift this to the ‘essential Elton’ status of Captain Fantastic. Maybe a harder edit to a single album would have helped? Too late now.