![]() ![]() And Restall looks at all of this and draws the link to one of the album’s super-fans, George Michael. They were ignored at the time but Elton has always been a fan of this record, mentioning it where he can, playing an album cut or two in shows. It’s a disastrous and strange period.īut the album in question not only offers clues around John’s unhappiness it also shows more intriguing orchestrations and changes in musical mood. After Blue Moves the Taupin/John songwriting partnership falls to pieces and Elton makes a disco record high on coke and nowhere near a keyboard. And soon the world decides it isn’t listening to Elton John records any longer. At first he tells the world he’s bisexual. So Blue Moves becomes his coming out album. He had tried to come out without ever really truly coming out but the open secret was largely ignored. And in the background of all of this Elton was exhausted – of course. ![]() ![]() The albums coming twice a year, the touring never stopping. It is extraordinary to look back at how ubiquitous his hits were – on every station and all the time. Randy Newman once joked that Elton John made several records while he was still brushing his teeth. And for the next five years he is unstoppable and running at a relentless pace. He has hit after hit after his 1970/71 first payday. It arrives on the back of an unheralded run, Elton John records, at one point, accounting for 2% of all global record sales. It is not his best.”įrom there we learn about Restall’s origin story with the record and then the wider context of the delivery of the record. In fact the book opens in a way that is unique for this series So he spends times with the record despite not being sold initially. II – slightly reluctantly and a bad copy had him taking the counter-clerk’s tip to get the then-new EJ studio album. I fell totally in love with Blue Moves and I was gripped by Restall’s narrative – including his discovery of the record by mistake. I generally enjoy them even if they don’t convince me to do more than a surface skim back through the album in question.īut this volume I sat reading it while listening to the record. Also I’m a card-carrying fan of the 33 1/3 series, it’s been a while since I’ve written about any of them but I’ve covered about 15 of the more recent ones hereand though the series is starting to get away on me I have read over 100 of the now 150 ish titles. So, a book about Elton’s Blue Moves album is right up my alley and I probably don’t need quite the level of convincing as might be the case for others. And it sent me off on a path to look through some of the other lesser known/maligned Elton records (I’d grown up with his 80s catalogue so I was pretty aware of the hit-miss factor that kicked in after that phenomenal run in the 1970s. I bought the double LP and spent some time with it, really digging it. Not many hits at all (really just the one mega hit – Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word) but worth the ride. 91608.Ĭover Painting "The Guardian Readers" by Patrick Procktor.A while back someone told me to check out Elton John’s Blue Moves album – I knew of it but hadn’t spent a lot of time with it the advice was that it was a hidden gem. by MCA Records, Inc., 100 Universal Plaza, Universal City, Calif. Includes inner sleeves printed with lyrics for each disc.Ĭatalog number on gatefold sleeve: MCA/ROCKET 2-11004Ĭatalog number on inner sleeves and labels: MCA2-11004 NotesMCA Pressing Plant, Gloversville denoted by ⧈-G-⧈ stamp in runouts. Producer, Engineer, Engineer – Gus Dudgeon.Engineer – Earle Mankey (tracks: A4, B2, B3, C3 to C5), John Kurlander (tracks: A2, A3, B3, D2), Mark Howlett (tracks: B1, B4, C1, D1, D3, D4).Composed By – Caleb Quaye (tracks: B1, C3, C4), Davey Johnstone (tracks: B1, B2, C3, C4, D2), Elton John & Bernie Taupin (tracks: A2 to C3), James Newton Howard (tracks: A3, C4).Arranged By, Conductor – James Newton Howard (tracks: A2, C1, D5). ![]() Arranged By, Conductor – Paul Buckmaster (tracks: B3, D2).Arranged By – Bruce Johnston (tracks: C3, C5), Curt Becher (tracks: C3, C5), Daryl Dragon (tracks: B3).Recorded At – Brother Studio, Santa Monica.Pressed By – MCA Pressing Plant, Gloversville.Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Sackville Productions Ltd.If There's A God In Heaven (What's He Waiting For?) MCA Records – MCA2-11004, The Rocket Record Company – MCA2-11004, MCA Records – 2-11004, The Rocket Record Company – 2-11004 Discos y portada EX a EX+ gatefold con 2 inners en papel carton Label: ![]()
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