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Elton john rocket man year8/8/2023 ![]() I had the whole opening bit: ‘She packed my bags last night, pre-flight/zero hour, 9am, and I’m gonna be high as a kite by then.’ That all came to me at once.” I drove like crazy down these backroads trying to get there in time so I’d remember it, and rushed in the door to write it down. In 1998, Taupin told Musician magazine: “The first verse of ‘Rocket Man’…was in my head as I was driving to my parents’ house in England many years ago. If that single had come out now I would be ‘part of the scene’.” Zero hour, 9am “It would be nice to eradicate ‘Space Oddity,’” he said, “but I’m flattered in the nicest way, that Elton John took so much out of it for ‘Rocket Man.’ I think perhaps it was premature. ![]() The story described the life of an astronaut who goes on three-month sojourns into space.Īs Elton’s “Rocket Man” first climbed into the chart stratosphere, the still-emerging Bowie described the influence of his earlier hit on the new one - even as he admitted to Disc magazine that he already thought of his song as an unwelcome novelty. The book reached a new generation when it was turned into the 1969 feature film starring Rod Steiger and Claire Bloom. Taupin’s lyric for “Rocket Man” drew inspiration from one of 18 short stories in 1951’s The Illustrated Man, by the revered science fiction writer Ray Bradbury. ![]() By 1972, the “space age” as we then knew it was coming to an end, with the final moon launch in the program, Apollo 17, making its landing that December. As public fascination in space flight reached fever pitch, that Bowie single came out a matter of days before the launch of Apollo 11, which dramatically achieved the first manned lunar landing. ![]()
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