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| recorded = January 1970 |
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| single1date = 20 March 1970<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hitparade.ch/showitem.asp?interpret=Elton+John&titel=Border+Song&cat=s|title=Elton John - Border Song|first=Steffen|last=Hung|website=hitparade.ch}}</ref> |
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'''''Elton John''''' is the ] second ] by ] ] ], released in ] (see ]). {{RS500|468}} |
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'''''Elton John''''' is the second{{efn|''Elton John'' was John's first album to be released in the United States, as his debut album '']'' (1969) would not be released there until 1975.}} studio album by English singer-songwriter ]. It was released on 10 April 1970 through ]. Including John's breakthrough single "]", the album helped establish his career during the rise of the singer-songwriter era of popular music. |
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all songs by Elton John and ] |
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In the US, ''Elton John'' was certified gold in February 1971 by the ]. In the same year, it was nominated for the ] at the ]. In 2003, the album was ranked number 468 on '']'' magazine's list of ]. On 27 November 2012, it was inducted into the ] as an album cited as exhibiting "qualitative or historical significance".<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110219001619/http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/awards/hall-of-fame#g |date=19 February 2011 }}. ''Grammy.org''. Retrieved 21 December 2012</ref> |
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#"I Need You to Turn To" - 2:33 |
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#"Sixty Years On" - 4:36 |
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#"Border Song" - 3:22 |
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#"The Greatest Discovery" - 4:13 |
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#"The Cage" - 3:31 |
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This was the first of a string of John albums produced by ]. As Dudgeon recalled in a '']'' magazine interview, the album was not actually intended to launch John as an artist, but rather as a collection of polished demos for other artists to consider recording his and co-writer ]'s songs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mixonline.com/recording/gus-dudgeon-1942-2002-364951|title=Gus Dudgeon, 1942–2002|first=Rick|last=Clark|website=Mixonline|date=October 2002 }}</ref> Two songs from the album did find their way into the repertoire of other artists in 1970: "]" was recorded by ] as an album track on their LP '']'', while ] released a cover of "]" as a single that reached number 37 in the US ] and number 5 on the ], later included on her 1972 album '']''. |
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The song "No Shoe Strings on Louise" was intended (as homage or parody) to sound like a ] song.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.resurrectionsongs.com/2015/04/18/wont-you-please-excuse-my-frankness-but-its-not-my-cup-of-tea-elton-john-elton-john-1970/ |author= J |date= 18 April 2015 |title= Won't you please excuse my frankness but it's not my cup of tea: Elton John – ''Elton John'' (1970) |publisher= www.resurrectionsongs.com |access-date= 3 October 2016 |quote= The side is rounded off with the 'Rolling Stones country' tinged 'No Shoe Strings on Louise' (even Elton's phrasing is similar to Jagger's at times – "All those city women want to make us poor men and this land's got the worse for the worrying")... |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161003204206/http://www.resurrectionsongs.com/2015/04/18/wont-you-please-excuse-my-frankness-but-its-not-my-cup-of-tea-elton-john-elton-john-1970/ |archive-date= 3 October 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last= Bernardin |first= Claude |title= Rocket Man: Elton John From A – Z |url= https://archive.org/details/rocketmaneltonjo00bern |url-access= registration |location= Westport, Conn. |publisher= Greenwood/Praeger |year= 1995 |page= |isbn= 0-275-95698-9 |quote= He tried to impersonate Mick Jagger. The song is about loose women.}}</ref> |
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==The Album== |
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Because ] didn't see an American release, Elton John's self-titled second album was what first caused people to take notice of England's newest music sensation. This was probably not a bad idea because after the ambitious-as-hell ], the follow-up gave us the bare essence of what Elton & lyricist Bernie Taupin were all about: insanely-catchy melodies & intelligent lyrics pop music hadn't seen the like of since the arrival of Bob Dylan (a huge influence on the duo, for sure). So if Elton John (1970) must be the beginning of Elton's legacy (although an inaccurate one), so be it. |
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==The Songs== |
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With "Your Song," Elton and Bernie reached another songwriting plateau. Some might argue it never got better than that. Undoubtedly, the lyrics feature a simple sentiment with which almost anyone can identify. A piano and voice demo features this in its barest form, with Elton practically whispering into the microphone and his gentle piano chords clearly providing the framework for the orchestral arrangement to come. |
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] in a contemporary (1970) review for '']'' felt that the album was over-produced and over-orchestrated, comparing it unfavourably with the less mannered and orchestrated '']''; though he felt that John had "so immense a talent" that "he'll delight you senseless despite it all".<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/eltonjohn/albums/album/121562/review/5942220/elton_john| author=]|magazine=]|date=12 Nov 1970|title=Album Reviews Elton John| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071002034152/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/eltonjohn/albums/album/121562/review/5942220/elton_john| archive-date=2 October 2007}}</ref> ] in his weekly "Consumer Guide" column for '']'' also felt the album was overdone ("overweening", "histrionic overload", "semi-classical ponderousness"), but that it had "a surprising complement of memorable tracks", including "Your Song" which, despite its "affected offhandedness", he considered "an instant standard".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=7129|work=robertchristgau.com|author=]|date=November 1970|title=Consumer Guide Album Elton John: Elton John}}</ref> |
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The next song, "I Need You to Turn To," starts with a voice and harpsichord before the strings quietly intercede. It isn't just the harpsichord that gives the song an ancient aura, or the harp played by Skaila Kanga, but also the melody, which could have fit into the "Greensleeves"-filled repertoire of a fourteenth-century troubadour. |
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The third song, "Take Me to the Pilot," starts like the first two, with Elton's voice and piano, but even before the orchestra's jubilant entrance the piece hurtles in a different direction. Elton's vocal here is assertive and strong. The piano seems to herald a raucous, African-American gospel number. By the song's end, the orchestra has completed a rocking, rolling adventure, punctuated by Elton's percussive piano and supplemented by percolating rhythm guitar, Caleb's wailing lead guitar, and spirited backing vocals by six singers, including Roger Cook and singer-songwriter Lesley Duncan. |
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"No Shoe Strings on Louise" is a next, down-home country-and-western slice of life and another Rolling Stones tribute. Elton would later joke that every album of his had to have a Stone tribute song on it (a pledge that did not last long). If the song is Stones-like, it is in Elton's growling faux-Southern vocal, which resembles the one Mick Jagger sometimes adopted. But the brash, ringing piano chords are unmistakably Elton's, conjuring up images of the manipulative "Loo-ays" striding confidently down the dust main street of town, searching for male prey. Caleb's twingy guitar completes the picture of a dry, gray Western scene. |
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| title6 = Sixty Years On |
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The next song, "First Episode at Hienton," was a leftover from 1968. In it, a young man looks wistfully back on his schoolboy romance with "Valerie," who has since grown up and moved away, The "first episode" refers to the adolescent main character's first intimate experience with Valerie ("For your thighs were the cushions/of my love and yours for each other"). Bernie's childhood memories dominate, as he links remembrances of roaming the hills or running through castle ruins with fantasies of a fictional love. Elton's melody style changes shape in response to the lyrics, which meander in a free-form style. |
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| title1 = Your Song |
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| note9 = Piano demo |
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Side two commences with "Sixty Years On," one of Elton John's most brilliant compositions and the first of his and Bernie's songs about the loneliness of old age to be recorded in 1970 (along with "Talking Old Soldiers" on Tumbleweed Connection, recorded later that year). The song depicts a veteran who has gotten little for his role in an unnamed war. His dog is dead, he sees nothing in his future, and he is losing his faith. Elton's touching piano and voice demo of the song is translated on the album into a vehicle for a harp- and cello-dominated orchestra, vividly portraying the veteran's growing isolation. The harp mimics the demo's broken piano chords; the orchestra follows the demo's dark, brooding note clusters. The innocent timbre of Elton's boyish voice lends the story even more poignancy. |
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"Sixty Years On" is followed by an overlooked gem of a ballad, "Border Song." It contains more than a little gospel, witness Aretha Franklin's cover of the song, an American Top 40 hit early the following year (and the first time a star recorded one of their songs).Typically, Bernie claims that "Border Song" wasn't about anything in particular. Elton later posited that the song was about the alienation Bernie felt in and about London at the time ("Brand of people who ain't my kind"), and his desire to visit home as often as he could. For those unfamiliar with Bernie's disaffection with British urban life in the late 1960s, "Border Song" seems to be a homily against bigotry, even before one reaches the last verse, penned by Elton himself. (Bernie acknowledged that "the great thing about Elton's last verse was that he tried to put it all into perspective.") Although Elton's words lack imagination, they not lack in longing for an age of better race relations: "Holy Moses let us live in peace/let us strive to find a way to make all hatred cease/there's a man over there, what's his color I don't care/he's my brother let us live in peace." These words are far from the banality of his early lyrics for "Come Back baby" and "Mr. Frantic." The song's plaintive melody has the aura of a spiritual, like "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot." A choir sings during an instrumental break led by Elton's piano, which is itself accompanied by weeping strings that build to a climax, and contributes to it's otherworldly feeling. |
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The album's imagery shifts to the surreal with "The Cage." Elton later claimed that the lyrics, like those for "Take Me to the Pilot," were inspired by the science fiction Bernie was devouring, but this isn't obvious. Bernie's "cage" represents emotional captivity (I've never loved in a cage/or talked to a friend or just waved") formed by an existence in which dishonest sentiments prevail ("Watched you kiss your old daddy with passion and tell dirty jokes as he died"). Like "Take Me to the Pilot," the music begins with Elton's up-tempo piano, a percussive feast that suggests Aretha Franklin's "Think." Elton snarls his vocals, conveying a dungeon of human nature that is the antithesis of the previous song's family values. The symphonic-sounding piano solo in Elton's demo becomes a moog synthesizer moment in the studio for Diana Lewis, done is French horn style, and furthering the song's surrealism. |
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The piece de resistance of the album is it's closer, "The King Must Die." The surrealism continues with this song, which some have speculated refers to Martian Luther King, an idea Bernie rejected. But even if the song was not inspired by contemporary events, it speaks to assassination plots dating back to Caesar's time: "And sooner or later,/everybody's kingdom must end/and I'm so afraid your courtiers,/cannot be called best friends." This tale of secret plans, trust betrayed, and dead dreams becomes for disturbing as Elton's sparse collection of treble piano notes, accented by an ominous intercession of piano bass, seems to warn the listener, showing how completely alone the threatened monarch is among his assumed friends. By the end of the song, when Elton nearly yells the words "The king is dead" and declares "Long live the King" to a thunderous piano conclusion, the listener's psychic insecurities have been dramatically heightened. |
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==Live recordings== |
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John performed many of these songs live,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Elton John Albums Statistics|url=https://www.setlist.fm/stats/albums/elton-john-63d6be6f.html |website=setlist.fm}}</ref> and included six of these ten songs on his 1987 album '']''. |
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==Personnel== |
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Track numbers refer to CD and digital releases of the album. |
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*Elton John - ], ], ], ] |
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* Elton John – piano, vocals (all tracks), ] (2) |
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*Madeline Bell - vocals, background vocals |
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* Diana Lewis – ] (5, 9) |
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*Paul Buckmaster - ] |
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* ] – organ (6, 7) |
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*Tony Burrows - vocals, background vocals |
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*Frank Clark - ], ], ] |
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* Frank Clark – acoustic guitar (1), double bass (10) |
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* Colin Green – additional guitar (1, 7), Spanish guitar (6) |
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*Roger Cook - vocals, background vocals |
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* Clive Hicks – ] (1), rhythm guitar (4), guitar (7, 8, 10), acoustic guitar (9) |
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*Terry Cox - ] |
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* Roland Harker – guitar (2) |
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*Brian Dee - ], keyboard |
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*Lesley Duncan - vocals, background vocals |
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* ] – lead guitar (3, 4, 5), additional guitar (9) |
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*Kay Garner - vocals, background vocals |
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* ] – bass guitar, double bass (1, 7, 8) |
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*Colin Green - guitar, ] |
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*Roland Harker - guitar |
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* Alan Weighall – bass guitar (3, 4, 9) |
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* Les Hurdle – bass guitar (10) |
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*Tony Hazzard - vocals, background vocals |
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* ] – drums (1, 3, 4, 7, 9) |
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*Clive Hicks - acoustic guitar, guitar, ], ] |
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* ] – drums (8, 10) |
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*Les Hurdie - bass |
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* Dennis Lopez – percussion (3, 4) |
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*Skaila Kanga - ] |
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* Tex Navarra – percussion (9) |
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*David Katz - ] |
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*Diana Lewis - ], ] |
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* ] – cello solo (8), orchestral arrangements and conductor |
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*Dennis Lopez - ] |
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*Barbara Moore - vocals, choir, chorus |
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*Tex Navarra - percussion |
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*Alan Parker - rhythm guitar |
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* Kay Garner – backing vocals (3, 4, 7, 9) |
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*Producer: Gus Dudgeon |
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*Engineer: Robin Geoffrey Cable |
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*Editing: Gus Skinas |
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* Gus Skinas – editing |
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* Alan Harris – original mastering |
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*Remastering: Tony Cousins |
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*Digital transfers: Ricky Graham |
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*Art direction: David Larkham |
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*Liner notes: Gus Dudgeon, John Tobler |
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==Accolades== |
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'''Grammy Awards''' |
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| style="width:35px; text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|] || rowspan="2"| ''Elton John'' || ]<ref name="1970saoty">{{cite web|title=GRAMMYs' Best Albums 1970–1979 |url=http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/news/grammys-best-albums-0 |work=grammy.org |access-date=1 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140304111252/http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/news/grammys-best-albums-0 |archive-date=4 March 2014 }}</ref> || {{nom}} |
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| ]<ref name="Best Pop Vocal Performance - Male">{{cite web|url=http://www.rockonthenet.com/grammy/popsolo.htm|title=Grammy Awards: Best Pop Vocal Performance – Male|publisher=rockonthenet.com|access-date=13 July 2015}}</ref> || {{nom}} |
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! scope="row"| Australian Albums (])<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6}}</ref> |
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{{Certification Table Entry|type=album|relyear=1970|region=Australia|artist=Elton John|title=Elton John|certyear=1974|award=Gold|certref=<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bid.omegaauctions.co.uk/auction/lot/lot-368---elton-john---seld-titled-lp-gold-australian-award/?lot=30933|date=20 February 2023|title=Elton John Self Titled LP. Australian Gold Disc Award}}</ref>}} |
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{{Certification Table Entry|type=album|relyear=1974|region=Canada|artist=Elton John|title=Elton John|certyear=2012|award=Platinum|certref=<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.julienslive.com/lot-details/index/catalog/427/lot/193481|date=27 February 2023|title=Elton John: Self-Titled "Platinum" Record Award}}</ref>}} |
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{{Certification Table Entry|title=Elton John|artist=Elton John|type=album|relyear=1970|certyear=1972|region=United States|award=Platinum|salesamount=1,000,000|salesref=<ref>{{cite web|url= |
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==References== |
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==External links== |
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The song "No Shoe Strings on Louise" was intended (as homage or parody) to sound like a Rolling Stones song.
