Two In The Think Tank - 167 - Elton John

Episode Date: January 2, 2019

We bloody love a music legend biography here at Do Go On, so this week Jess tackles the HUGE career of one of the greats - ELTON JOHN! Find out how The Rocket Man got his big break!Tickets to our first ever ADELAIDE podcast on March 10 are available, use the code "adelaide" for a discount when booking early. Book here: https://www.trybooking.com/BABRY 2019 Melbourne Comedy Festival tickets now on sale. Tickets: https://www.trybooking.com/ZYYPSupport the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: www.patreon.com/DoGoOnPod Submit a topic idea directly to the hat: dogoonpod.com/Submit-a-Topic Twitter: @DoGoOnPod Instagram: @DoGoOnPod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/ Email us: [e-mail] Book tickets to Matt's stand up show (in Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne) with the early bird discount code: dogoon via mattstewartcomedy.com/gigs  Check out our other podcasts: Book Cheat: https://omny.fm/shows/bookcheatPrime Mates: https://omny.fm/shows/prime-matesREFERENCES AND FURTHER READING: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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I loved it. Which part of 2019 is this? A few days in. A few days in. Oh, the first few days would be days in. A few days in. The first few days would be my holiday. A wrecking. Where's your papa?

I went to the beach. I went to music festival. I went, I had an icy poll. That's three, four, had nap. And five, pizza. Hell yeah. Yeah, been a big year so far. That's a big year so far.

That's a big year. Already proud of everything that I've achieved. And no further questions. You're on a... Dave, I don't care what you've been up to. Now what do you've had a probably been, what, horse polo, that sort of stuff? A lot of skiing. Yep.

On poor people. Yep. Did you buy another yacht? Oh yeah. I mean, we're three days in. How many? He's 2019 yacht. Yeah. Yeah. Ivory backscratches coming out the wazoo. Yeah. The wazoo of the yacht. Yeah. A wazoo is a part of a yacht. Oh yes, that's where the term comes from. Yeah, made of oak. Yeah. Like a rare kind of oak. But then it's also coated in gold. Yeah. But like a rare kind of oak. But then it's also coated in gold. But like a rare kind of gold. It's got endangered kind of gold.

Yes. Royal oak in gold. Mm-hmm. It costs lives. Yeah. Yeah, you can't buy it with currency. You have to spare lives. I've reached for the other people's lives.

Don't worry about it. But no, 2019, it's going to be a good one. We are looking forward to doing more podcasts in more places this year. So exciting. And we're excited to announce right here, right now, for the first ever time, we are coming to a city we've never been to. Yep. And Matt, that city is.

Can I list the cities we haven't been to? No. No. Oh, yeah, right. I mean, actually, Jessus doesn't know that many cities have you find that's true I can't think of that many I'm not very bright Sure you are Chicago Haven't we been there? I don't know not yet

It's on the list. It's on the list people but one we're happy to announce speaking about posh and Rich we are going to a very posh city and churches Yes, it's probably the nicest sort of city square in Australia, I reckon Rich, we are going to a very posh city. And churches. Yes. It's probably the nicest sort of city square in Australia, or I can, it's all very pretty. And the city, of course, is Adelaide. Adelaide. Adelaide.

Ooh. Use it in a sentence. We're going to Adelaide. Yeah, very good. When are we going to Adelaide? We are coming to perform there on March the 10th. My favorite day in March. A beautiful day. Which will be you. Which will be you. Which will be you. Which will be you. Which will be you. Which will be you. Which will be you. Which will be you. Which will be you. Which will be you. Which will be you. Which will be you. Which will be you. Which will be you. Which will be you. Which will be you. Which will be you. Which will be you. Which will be you. Which will be you. Which will be you. Which will be you. Which will be you. Which will be you. Which will be you.

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We will always go there as long as they sell out this show. Yeah, that's what we've always said. From the beginning, when we definitely knew live shows was going to be a thing we would do. It's at a beautiful new venue, the Adelaide Wine Centre run by the... The National Wine Centre. The National Wine Centre, bloody hell. It's not just Adelaide, it's National, baby.

It's National just ugly. It's national baby. And then it's much like Salva Australia's Football competitions called the Salva Australian national football league even though there's only Salva Australian Teams in the comp But yeah, there's so many great acts playing there. Matt Stewart a good friend of mine. I know, sorry, me. I'm there for two weeks.

You can be your own friend. Well, I'm not a hate myself. I like you. Show called Bone Dry. I'd be great to see there. There's a discount for Dugorn. Listen, that discount's Dugorn. But there's also people like Ben Knight,

another man with a red beard. I think maybe they exclusively have shows of people with red beard. That's not true. Amy Heatherington is also performing there. And our good pal, Sarenjay Mane. Neither of those have red beads. Sarenh has a bead.

He has a bead, yes, that's correct. It's our day, buddy. Hey, we just not have a bead. No, that's true. Yeah. So lots and lots going on at the National Wine Center, which is the corner of Hackney in Botanic Road in Adelaide. A beautiful spot.

Just looked on the map, Matt and Euron, bloody good spot. So all those shows are part Road in Adelaide. A beautiful spot, just looked on the map, Matt and you're in bloody good spot. So all those shows are part of the Adelaide Fringe. We are outside of the Fringe, but we're going to be there during that time of year. So it's always an absolute cracker. And those other shows are on sale at AdelaideFringe.com.au. But our show is on sale right now. There's a link in the description of this episode. Or you can go to dogoonpod.com, find a, click on live shows there and you'll be able to find

the tickets on sale. And let's just say, if you book in the next couple of weeks and use the code, Adelaide. Oh, that's clever. Love it. We'll give you a little bit of time. Because that's where we're going. Yes. We're in weird words if the code was Darwin.

Can you make the code Darwin? All right. Adelaide and Darwin are both codes. Yes. Amy's from Darwin. So in a way, it's an homage. Yes, fantastic. My friend Amy.

So wait, I'm confused now. Do you think the list that I was going to be? What's happening? Well, no, they probably didn't zone out just then. Just go to dogoonpod.com. If you're an Adelaide during that time of year, please come along and use the code word Adelaide and all Darwin. It's just then. Okay. Just go to dogoonpod.com. If you're an Adelaide during that time of year, please come along and use the code word Adelaide and or Darwin. It's just or is there only one discount and book the next couple of weeks and we'd

love to see that much. Yeah, you can do the double see me that night after seeing the podcast. Oh, man, yes. Can you get too much match to it? The answer will shock you. It's no. And other places in Australia, stay tuned. We're going to announce some more interstate shows over the coming weeks. That's right. I, and I'm also touring around Australia with that solid show.

If you want to check out my dates, they're at matschewacomedy.com slash gigs. And the discount code of Dugorn is an early bird. I forget when it last till, but it's still on apparently. I get you a real sweet discount for shows and Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne. Now, should we get cracking with the show? The way the show works is we rotate between the three of us

and tell a story about a report that we've researched. We do a report on a report that we've researched. We do a report on a story that we've researched and it could be anything from history or current events or people or pornography or pornography. We've never done a pornography but we should. You have not. Oh it's true. We've done a pornography. Yeah. And this week's report is going to be done by Jess and to get us on the topic, Jess is going to ask a question, David and I don't know what the topic is, we're going to find out with this question.

Jess, what is your question? I hope you don't know this, because I didn't know it. So here is my question. Is it geography back then? No, but I wouldn't know it. Equatorial guinea. What is the stage name of Reginald Kenneth Dwight?

Oh, I know this. Do you know? Matt, do you know? Do you know? Do you know? Is it...oh, there's a few... Can I have a guess? Elton John?

Yes! Elton John! We're talking about Elton John. We're talking about Elton John. Oh, the piano man himself. The bitch is back. And other songs. It has... It has so many songs though. What would you say? The man himself, the bitch is back. And other songs. Pen and man is not one of his, not one of his.

So many songs though. What would you say? Piano man. It's a little joke there, but. That's, I was so keen to say the bitch is back. I just ignored whatever you said. I'm not. That's what I yell every time I go home at night.

Piano man. What piano man. Yeah, no. That's some good stuff there. That is some absolute quality. The first time I'm listening, it's about this good for the next hour. So get comfy. It's perfect.

This is an episode to send to my dad, Hugh Jelton John fan growing up. I've always played in the car, and I'd always be like, oh, I hate this, I hate this. I had the same attitude to Fleetwood Mac, now a big fan of both. Yeah, and I think this, I hate this. I had the same attitude to Fleetwood Mac, now a big fan of both, sorry. Yeah. And I think like, or I really enjoyed researching Freddie Mercury

and then listening to all of Queen's music all over again and then watching Behemue Reps do the film. All right, the bitch is back. The bitch is back. Freddie Mercury, the piano man. So I was keen to do another sort of music legend by, because I didn't know a lot about his early life or how it where he kind of got started.

Right. And so, and with, I just wanna put this out, up the top, is that this is a mammoth topic in terms of like his life is ridiculous. I'm looking forward to this mammoth topic. Thanks for getting us excited for it. Yeah, I can't wait. In depth, sounds like his life is ridiculous. I'm looking forward to this man with the topic. Thanks for getting us excited for it. Yeah, I can't wait. It had in-depth.

Sounds like what I like to hear. You turn over every stone and research. I'm still in depth. But red dozens of books, I imagine. I imagine there'll be 20 minutes on the duet with Kiki-D. Oh, don't go breaking my heart by not researching that period of his life. No, I did.

I'm not saying I didn't do any research. Oh, thank God, because I was going to be pissed off and the bitch would be bad. What I was trying to get through, a sentence, was that I focused mostly on his early life and how he kind of got started. And then I just kind of do like some key moments. All right, Jess, sing me a song. I'm the piano man. Jess, I'm excited. I think the early life is the bit that I know the least about. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, it's pretty interesting. This has been suggested by a couple of people. It's been suggested by Ross and Ashmitta. Neither of them giving their last name, so... Oh, okay. Or possibly they filled out the form separately. But they first name first, last name second. Is it Ross Ashossash meter?

Or? No. They could be superstars in their own right, like Beyonce or Adele. Adele? Nobody knows your last name. I wish science would come far enough for us to figure it out.

I wish journalism would dig a little deeper and just like find a birth certificate or something. I need to know, we're last names. She was born in Kenya. You know that? That's what I've heard. Prove it. It's all right.

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. She's better at the evidence. Who is she? Kenya, probably. Is she even from this earth? Adale. Adale, I'm a dale.

It doesn't sound like a human. She's a bit like a Elton John, a bit of a star man. That's a rocket human. She's a bit like a Elton John, a bit of a star man. That's a rocket man joke, guys. So thanks so much. Thank you so much. Thanks so much. All right, so, Reginald Kenneth Dwight,

which is a fantastic name. Why would you change that? Regid Dwight, not quite the rock star name. Regid D. Regid D, oh, there we go. Sorry, the last time I'm interrupting, but the older he gets, the more he looks like. I'm sorry, the older he gets, the more original Kenneth Dwight, I think he looks like.

I could not agree more yet. He, now he looks like a Reggie. No, a Reginald. He looks like a Reginald. And in many ways, he is. So, you know? Yeah. Like, I would argue sometimes I don't look like a Jess. I reckon I could pass for a Kate.

Oh, yeah. 100%. Thank you. I say thank you. I really like the name Kate. Kate. Hello. I'm Kate.

See? That sounds like me. Yeah, that's it. What's this Jess? Jessica. Oh, God. Jessica Bla. Jessica Bla Bla. Jessica Bla Bla. Jessica. Oh, God. Anyway. Jessica Bla.

Jessica Bla. Bla. That's how I hear my name. Every time someone says it. Who won? Anyway, Reginald Dwight was born on the 25th of March in 1947 in Pinnah, middle six. Pinnah and middle six.

That's a hot name. It's hot, right? His parents were Stanley, who's in the Air Force and she... Damn, Lee! All right. What was his mum's name? Sheela. Did you say Sheela? Because that is much better than Stanley.

Sheela. Sheela, not Sheelalc. Is that what Sheela is short for? No. Oh my god, I think it is. It's just a woman's name. And I'm Sheelalc. No! Whoa think it is. Just a woman's name. And I'm Lee and she. No. Whoa. What was she Hulk's name again? Babs. Dr. Babs. Dr. Babs.

Marvin Monroe. Dr. Babs Monroe. Um, both of both of his parents were musically inclined. His father played the trumpet with the Bob Miller band, which was a semi professional big band that played at military dances. And both of his parents were keen music lovers, and they had, they amassed quite the record collection. And he remembers being immediately hooked on rock and roll when his mother brought home records by Elvis Presley and Bill Haley in his comments in 1956.

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And when he was seven, his parents got him proper piano lessons. And by the age of 11, he was awarded a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music. Oh, God, he was a good prodigy. Yeah, he joined the junior exhibitionist scheme, which was for state school children who showed an exceptional gift for music. There's only 11.

That's a business. They're doing it in the nude. Yeah. Playing piano in the nude. Oh, which honestly I find is the best way. You can only truly play music when you are completely vulnerable. Yeah, jazz is about the clothes you don't wear. Buh-buh-buh, I got no shirt on. really vulnerable. Yeah, jazz is about the clothes you don't wear. Boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo,

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boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, he learned to read music, how to compose music, to understand it, and how different composers would construct their music in different ways. For the next five years, he attended Saturday classes at the Academy in Central London. What day? Saturday. Saturday. Saturday. Saturday.

Saturday. Saturday. Saturday night? No. Oh, all right. It's, he's a child. He'd go during the day. Saturday.

Yeah, he liked playing a buck and singing in the choir during his Saturday classes. But he also says, I kind of resented going to the Academy. I was one of those children who could just, who could just about get away without practicing and still pass scrape through the grades. God, what a, what a skill. I had to practice. I'll be right. He's claimed that he would sometimes skip class to ride around on the London underground. Skip, let's go, try and... That's different. Would you, took you still play as a ear in the corner?

Uh-uh, uh-uh. Ma-uh, ma-uh, ma-uh. Right. Yeah. I think, um, I think, you know, entertainment's come a long way. Now when kids wag school, they don't just sit on a train going around a loop. Yeah, at least they'd go smoke. Yeah.

You know, they'd not smoke. They'd not smoke. They'd not smoke. Yeah. You know, they'd at least go and smoke the very least. You'd know. If I find out my kids of wags school, just to ride a train, I'll be shoving cigarettes in their mouths so fast. Yeah, I'll be grabbing them by the year trumpet and dragging them up to the supermarket and buying them some cigarettes. You smoke every last one in this packet till you stop riding that train. You nerd. As you publishment for everything. You buy my expensive car. You drive this car until you've got it out of your system, young man. Our family do not ride trains. We're rocket men.

His parents divorced when Redress 14 and his mother remarried a local painter. Fred Fairbrother. Why is that funny? Oh, the emphasis on Fairbrother. Fairbrother. The year was. Fairbrother. Fred was a caring and supportive stepfather who Redg affectionately referred to as Diff, which was his first name in reverse.

Oh. It's like us calling you Tam. That's nice. Or Evad. Which I enjoy. Sedge. Very nice names. Thank you so much.

But it was quite a contrast to his absent and uninterested father. They moved into a new flat in an eight-unapartment building called Frome Court, not far from his childhood home. And it was there that he wrote the songs that launched his career as a rock star. Right, so how old is he when he's writing these songs? He's teens. He lived there for a while into his early 20s,

but I am jumping here a little bit. He was merely a rocket boy. In 1962 at the age of 15, two big things happened for Edge. Firstly, with the help of his mum and stepdad, he got a gig as a weekend pianist at the local pub. He'd play Thursday to Sundays. He'd play Jim Reeves and Ray Charles, as well as a few originals under a very cool stage name. He played a few...oh what was it? Reggie.

Yeah, it's good. Is it a stage name? Just Reggie. Yeah. It's their last name. Who is it? Hello, I'm Reggie. Exactly.

That is. Reggie. And that would have been before all the other, most of the people that had known about one name, Mononims. So, he should have stuck with that. He could have been the first. Everyone would have just known him as Reggie. or all the other, most of the people that I've known, but one name, mononims. So, I reckon he should have stuck with that. He could have been the first. Everyone would have just known him as Reggie. Reggie.

But like, when he's dancing around in like feathers and big glass, you're gonna be like, well, that's Reggie, you know? Yeah, no, I definitely think that's Elton. I think he should change it back now. He should be regional now. He's back to original. You know, this is one of the weirdest things I think I've I've ever found out. I watched a Christmas episode of the

nanny a couple weeks ago. Ray Charles is in that show. That bizarre. That's very odd. Like a guest appearance. He's like he's like a recurring guest as what's the Nana's name Yoda's partner. What? Do not remember that at all. Yelda, what's her name? Anyway, it doesn't matter, but the man is Yeta. Yeta's boyfriend is Ray Charles. Not wild. But is he just like a regular person or is he Ray Charles in the show? I think I Didn't look I wasn't Contrary to that hard but he played the piano and sang like Ray Charles. So he's Ray Charles

He's like some version of Ray Charles. That's wild. So weird. How did I not remember that? It feels like that's one of the weirdest things that's ever happened in TV. I think you're right At least one of the way like an all-time musical legend. Yeah. How do you... Are you recurring role on the Nanny? As yet as boyfriend. So... Yeah, that's... That's fun.

Why? Was he out of money? Yeah, I can't figure it out. Did he... was he just a fan of the show, maybe? Maybe, as a big fan. No, no, no, blame him. He just wanted to get close to Mr. Sheffield. Miss... Fine! The Nanny! Is that Ray Charles? Maybe as a big fan. No, no, blaming. But he just wanted to get close to Mr. Sheffield. Miss Fawn.

The Nannu. Is that Ray Charles? Yeah. He composed a theme song. Yeah. Is that what I'm saying? Surely you recognize his voice. Who would have thought that the girl we described? Ray Charles.

This is the only way I could describe. So yeah, he's playing at the local pub. There's a bit of Sunday nights. He's Reg G, Reggie's playing, just Reggie. Also in 1962, same year, so he's 15 years old. He and some of his friends formed a band called Blue's Oligi. This gave me a minute. Blue's Oligi. Have a good saying it.

Blue'sology. It's fun, isn't it? I like adding oligione to the end of things. Yeah, me too. Me too, oligione. What about bartender? Oh no, I'm a mixologist. Yeah.

Oh God. You're jazzing it up a little bit. Don't remind me. You can be a mixologist in the Sims, and I played the Sims for four hours last night instead of writing this report. And now I just want to kind of get this done so I can go home and play some scenes. I'm a simologist. Yeah, I'm a simologist.

I'm a gamer. Gamologists. I'm a Gamologist. Thank you so much. Are we podologists? Yeah, let's get back to this pod-cold-cology. Oh, that sounds good. Directing?

Yeah. Next time I'm in a dinner party, which happens often, I'm gonna, when someone says, and what do you do? I'm gonna say I'm a pod-co, which happens often I'm gonna when someone says and what do you do? I'm gonna say I'm a podcologist and then when they say oh what I'll just excuse myself and go get a drink Yeah, yeah, okay podcologist excuse me. I think that's my phone. I think that's my pager. Excuse me. That's my child yelling from my hand from my handbag. And just come back and sit back down and never mention it again.

Oh, this is why I got invited to somebody, did a party. So he's in bluesology now. Bluesology as Reggie. As Reggie. By the mid 60s, bluesology was backing the touring American soul and our own B musicians like Major Lance and Paddy Lebel on the blue bells, like they're backing up pretty big acts of coming over and performing. Blue bells performing with bluesology.

Paddy Lebel on the blue bells and bluesology. Blue blow with the blue beer. Honestly Paddy Lebel is the outlier there. That's a big name on a poster. Yeah, it's too much. And you know what color the poster was? Orange. Thank goodness that compliments Blue so well.

By the time he was 17, he was set on his dream of being a musician. And school was getting in the way. Despite being terrified of his headmaster, he told the headmaster that he wanted it to leave school. And surprisingly, the headmaster said, well, I know how much music means to you. I give you my blessing, but make sure you work hard at everything you do.

Really? Yeah. You're not your parents, you're actual headmaster. Yeah, and this isn't like, this isn't the 60s. It's just like, well, fair enough. He must have shown a lot to promise that. He, I mean, yeah, I mean, obviously,

he was exceptionally talented. He was supporting Patula Bell and the Blue Bells with Blue Tall and the Mate, so. When he's like 16, 17. When his hand at his principal, the flyer to that show, and he went, get out of here, kid. You're gonna be a star! That principal was also a talent agent.

Yeah, no. Yeah, no. Well, you got a side hustle. These days, less people are working a nine to five and more people are doing a couple of things. A couple of part-time gigs. So that thing was a bit of a pioneer. Oh, yeah. I think so.

That crusty old Dean. Dustedly Dean. I'll get you Dean. In 1967, Ridge answered an ad in the British magazine at New Musical Express, which was placed, the ad was placed by Ray Williams, who was then the A&R manager for Liberty Records. Reg met up with Ray and Ray gave Reg an envelope with lyrics written by someone else who'd also answered the ad. And Reg went away, wrote music for the lyrics, and posted them to the lyricist who was a man

named Bernie Torpin. Oh, bloody hell, that's how it started. That's wild. Yeah, isn't it? The initial ad was that we need songwriters for our label. I think so. So it doesn't, I didn't really get much of exactly what the ad was, but yeah. It must be someone that, which is so wild, like one of the world's biggest record companies, just puts an ad in newspaper saying,

Hey, write songs for us. Yeah. Sounds what you got. And gives him, like, he hadn't opened the envelope. He didn't know if the lyrics were any good. He just handed it like, here, go write some music for this. That is cool. Yeah.

And the lyrics, it's like, Rocket Man, Rocket Man, I'm a Rocket Man, Rocket Man, Rocket Man, Rocket Man, Rocket Man. And look what he tried to do. Rocket Man, Rocket Man, Saturday nights a Rocket man, Rocket man, Rocket man, and a Rocket man. Rocket man, Rocket man, Saturday nights, all right. Bernie Mee tell. And he's like, oh, right, can we could do some of this, maybe? I reckon this is good enough for two songs.

Ha ha. So yeah, that's how they met shortly after at this initial kind of correspondence and a writing partnership grew from there. Towards the end of that year, 1967, Reg was going by the name Elton John and this was an homage to two of his fellow members of Blue'sology, Elton Dean and John Bouldery. So he's just taken two names and a march slash.

It's like, Hey, we're not dead. We're still trying to make a music career. Yeah. I'll use your name. Would you be honored? Or would you be weirded out? Are they still playing like are they backing him up? So now it's Elton and John supporting Elton and John. That's all right guys, I'm starting your podcast. But I'm going to now call myself Jess David. Is that cool?

I love it. Cause and I, you couldn't have said that at better timing cause I'm also starting a new podcast, but I'm gonna refer to myself as Dave Matthews. That's right. Ben. Wow. Why you've been banned?

Yeah, my podcast is all about naughty things. Oh, Dave Matthews banned up late. Are you gonna be catching a few trains in the daytime? A naughty person? Couldn't say it. I'm bad. We're the daytime, a naughty person couldn't say it. I'm bad. You're going to call me a naughty girl and you swapped yourself? Yeah, that was probably a real wrong.

Real wrong. Yeah, that's probably the right connection. That's not even your bit. What's your bit? You don't sound like a good girl. You don't sound like a good guy. You sound like a good girl. It's a genuine conversation I had.

That was good fun. But's a genuine conversation I had. That was good fun. But the best comedy comes from truth. And tragedy. That's also true. So yeah, it's true. I guess it is a little bit weird that he's taken their names as an homage. But you would be like to much more famous people from the past often. You know, that's homage. Not Not two, these are my two mates, can steal their names. Obviously they meant a lot to him. Or he just liked their names.

That's really only something Elton John could tell us. Your names meant a lot. And he joins us right now. Hello, any questions? Why did you choose Elton John? I'm a rocket man, I'm a rocket man, a cockadole rocket man, rocket man. Thank you so much, Elton John.

I imagine you're a very busy seam, I suppose. That appearance cost us $85,000. Money will spend, I reckon. I just wanted to add a little something to my podcast. $5,000. Money will spend, I reckon. I just wanted to add a little something to my podcast report, you know? A little, how you say, how you say, how you say, how you say, how you say, I did not know who was foot in French and I did. Or a gangster.

I did not get any of that in my research. So that's something that we can only get from the source. That's funny because I've never heard him talk before now. That has surprised me that that's what he sounds like. Yeah. I'd have no idea if he talked in a different way, I would not have been surprised as well. But that is how he talks. It's much like Adele, you know, sings like an angel. Talks like Adele! It's very confusing. But, uh... Talks like a doubt! It's very confusing. But... Thought like a butterfly, a sting like a bee, a sting like an angel. Talk like a doubt.

Someone contacted me recently and said they were listening to me on Triple J and I sounded very different to how I sound on here. Really? Honestly, my first thought was like different equipment, maybe. Just Triple J. They don't make you talk like triple j, do you triple j voice? It's this.

This is my triple j voice. Yeah. See? Triple j. Yeah, that was through a filter. I mean, there's a radio voice, but I don't do that because triple j's. It's probably just because you're talking different words.

Yeah, and I'm not telling people to get fucked. Yeah, they don't recognize your voice without the swear words. Hmm. I like to keep it interesting. And that was the latest one from Ario Speedwagon. Some fuckhead. All right. Got him. I don't, I don't do that. I'm a professional. Do you just play Ario Speedwagon? Yeah. I haven't trained into the J's in a while.

Yeah, well you're too old for the J's now. Yeah. Our target demographics 18 to 25 and you're 106. I listen to single J. As you get older you lose your J's. You're in negative three J's. Yeah, you're just about to be double J now Dave working. Well apparently it's 18 to 25. Yeah.

So you're too old for your own stations. Shut up. Shut up. Don't tell management. The bosses don't know how old I am. Isn't one of your bosses about 7 to 7? Shut up. Shut up. Everybody shut up. I'm imagining this bit's getting edited out. I need this job. Shut up. Anyway, okay. So, yeah, so this is the end of 1967, he's going by Elton John, but it wasn't until 1972 that he legally changed his name. Oh, right.

Do you know his middle name that he chose? No, don't. Danger. Elton Hercules. Oh, that is incredible. Yeah, danger would have been good though. Elton danger John. Did you hear that McColley Col can put out a poll to let people choose his middle name?

No, that's fun. So he put it out, the people gave him suggestions, he picked five that he liked and then he put that to a vote. And by an absolute landslide, his middle name is now McColley Colken. So his McColley McColley Colken Colken. Correct. That's fun. And so now he's really looking forward to anybody being like, are you McColley McColley Culkin. Correct. That's fun. And so now he's really looking forward to anybody being like,

are you McColley Culkin? He goes, please McColley Culkin is my middleman. That is wild. So that was one of the five that he chose to put up. Yeah. Isn't that great? One was publicity stunt and nobody voted for that. So his name is McColley McColley Culkin Culkin and he

legally changed it. You'd be up for letting the podcast listeners vote on your new middle name. We let them decide I got a tattoo. It's only fed that they can legally change your middle name. Maybe the Patreon subscribers? Well, I think we know what it's going to be. McColley Culkin. Diane. How's he going to, yeah McColley Culkin? Matthew James McColley Culoch. Gary would be Gary Indiana Gary Gary is the best Greg's pastries 2G Greg's 3G

Anyway, so Elton John and Bernie Torpen joined Dick James's DJM records as staff songwriters in 1968 Right, so just to convert Bernie. I don't know much about him. Is he also English? Yes. Okay, great. Cool, didn't know. Over the next two years, they wrote songs together

for a variety of artists. The way they would work is and still work is pretty insane. Bernie would write out a bunch of lyrics within about an hour, give them to Elton, Elton would write the music to go with it in about half an hour. They just like smashing out, that's not, the timeline isn't the same as how they work now,

but back then, because they're just trying to, they're just trying to churn out music and churn out songs to then like pitch to artists. They're just going through it so fast. For two years, they wrote easy listening tunes for Dick James to pedal to singers. And their early output included a contender for the UK entry for Eurovision in 1969, nice. It was for Lulu and it was called, I can't go on living without you.

Right. So contenders, I mean, it was short this time. Yeah, it was like, they narrow it down to six. And it was like six out of those six. Six. Top six. Top six. It's a cam blouse.

Yep. Hey. Top six. Top six, please. You would have hated that, six. Yeah, that doesn't annoy me a bit. Third, it's a top six. But then if you had them in like,

like I'm imagining them as cubes, and then you got three and three, I don't mind that. Okay. Yeah, my brain doesn't make sense, okay? I don't quite get how that's a cube, but I... A song is a cube, obviously. Everyone knows. A song is a cube.

That is a good name for a song. Why do I have to explain this to you? Sorry, you don't. A song is a cube and people are complicated, okay? Matt, you're not a demographic. Yeah, you don't get it. You don't get it. Sorry.

People at your age don't understand that songs are cubes. Frankly, neither do I. Songs are stackable cubes. I, yep,'t get it. You don't get it. Sorry. People your age don't understand that songs are cubes. Franklin is a doggie. Songs are stackable cubes. Oh, yeah. Yep. That was the latest cube from Mario Speedwagon. So they are churning out music, which is pretty insane. But yeah, even so they wrote together for like 40, 50 years.

That's how, always how they worked. Bernie, they never sat in the room and wrote a song together. Never. Yeah, that is interesting. Bernie would write the lyrics, give them to Elton, Elton would write the music. Send a telegram.

Well, they used to mail it to each other. I'm hoping, you know, as the times progressed, they would email. I'd hope. Because they could be any, because Elton could be touring, who'd be anywhere in the world. Bernie wasn't touring with him. amazing. So Bernie at some point Bernie

This is one of the weirdest lyrics or I there's something about this lyric that means I can't like the song word Bernie top and wrote Living like lovers rolling like thunder under the covers Is that And I guess that's why they call it the blues laughing like children. Why what's happening here, Bernie? Living like love, friends. Wait, children and what? Obviously, when you hear the song you go, you just go along with it. But imagine if you'd never heard the music before, all you got is a piece of paper that says those words. Rolling like thunder. He's done it again.

Rolling like thunder under the covers. Yeah, I'm imagining out in... I like it. ...out in Gatson he goes, oh, fuck and hell. All right. Got a bit of work to do to make this sound, okay? Yeah, imagine how good the songs could have been if someone wrote great lyrics.

What's the thing too? I was watching a docker about it and Bernie was talking about when he wrote your song, your song. My song. Your song. Yeah. Which is called clickety-clack. The boys are back. Shiggered a shack and here we go.

Wackety-dack. Ding-a-dong-dong. Yeah, it's a long time. It's a matte song. We've been meaning to talk about it. Oh boy. Look, I hear that. He for a good time, not a long time.

Let's get her done. Sonny-son. boy. Look, I hear that. Hey, for a good time or a long time. Let's get her done. Sonny Son. Bracket. I hear that and I think he's done it again. That is amazing. Wow, he's got a way. So what was he saying in the talk?

He was talking about when he wrote your song and he's like, it's this song that's all about love but I was like 17. You know, he had no experience. That's how. No idea what I was like 17, you know, had no experience. That's all. No idea what I was talking about. When you originally wrote it, yeah. Wow.

Wasn't released into a little bit later, but. Cause that, yeah, that's one, that's like, maybe his most iconic almost. One of them, yeah, I'd say so. And it's really interesting too, because a lot of the, and I'll get to it, it does this all, a lot of the most iconic songs that his early work.

Yeah. Which is pretty impressive. Like a lot of artists, you kind of hear the early stuff and you're like, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, but they get really good. Whereas for example, Pantera. Yeah, that's true. I reckon we're in pop it. It feels like these days it's if you don't have a big hit album early, you rarely to bands get discovered mid-career or have a big breakthrough. It feels like a lot of first singles are big singles and it's weird how as musicians would probably be getting better by learning to be better musicians.

That's when their popularity starts to drop usually. That must be frustrating, I imagine. But that's sort of like pop music and rock and stuff is a, it's kind of a, you know, most big hits ever were written by people under 30, I would think. Most big hits ever. I'd say, I'd say the majority. You know, like, there's a lot of artists who died before they even hit 30. So what you're saying is Dave and I are in our prime. As songwriters.

I've just sang the clock stick in. Right. You've got a year and a half before you are done so. Okay. In the rock are done so. Okay. In the rock world. Jess, yep. I'll write some words down and you can make a tune to it. Okay, every tune is going to be.

Ha, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na. What do you think? Great, I'll try and put this to it. Big feather down. One, one, nine. Have a go. What does that mean, Jess? I'm sorry, just just just try it this. This is why no, we can't do this in the same room. Is it how Berni? Can you just email these to me?

Fun, I'll email you big further down 119. Dave doesn't make art. He lits art flow through it. Yeah, I'm just a vessel. You're not asked question. Just a vessel. In decades that will be absolutely classic. Dave is just an empty vessel. You're an empty vessel. Fantastic example of one of my earlier songs. You're an empty vessel, one, one, nine. Hahaha. It's like a robot's writing music. Hahaha.

Hahaha. Yeah, I'm trying to, you know, stay relevant when the computer's take over. I like that. It's my thing. I would have thought you'd go ones and zeros, not nine. No, no, no. They're going gonna develop. Also, I'm speaking to my My German ancestors

Nine got it Also in the late 60s, Anton was engaged to be married to his first lover. What a weird sentence there, sorry about that. Are they rolling like thunder? No. Under the cover. That's good. That's good stuff. It was Linda Woodrow, who's mentioned in the song, Someone Saved My Life Tonight.

Elton and Lisa were sharing a flat with Bernie in Fair Long Road in Highbury in London. Hence the opening line, When I Think of Those East End Lights. Bernie really wrote from what he knew. Mm. And so he's living with a couple and then writing about the couple. Yeah, it's crazy. And then giving the words. Here. The way. I looked in that blouse tonight. Yeah, I wrote a song for you to dedicate to your girlfriend who's just sitting over there. I mean, the girlfriend's like, oh, you're right a song

about me. Bernie. Yeah, thank you. Bernie. I love it, Creepy. I prefer Elton, how to crack. No. Oh my God, now I want to have a friend to move in with me. I just want a friend. I realize how sad and desperate that sounded.

Anyway. Just imagine how good Elon's lyrics are. If he, when he's getting Bernie's lyrics goes, this is the good stuff. Yeah. Rolling like thunder into the covers, I could never think of that. God, he's good.

Eldon was having serious doubts about the impending marriage to Linda. And he, having a lot of issues at the time. He was having doubts about the marriage. He was contemplating suicide. It was quite a dark time for him. And he took refuge in his friends, especially John Baldry, who is the John of Elton John. And he convinced Elton to abandon his plans to marry in order to salvage and maintain his musical career. So he was like, what my friend Christy says,

if it isn't a hell, yes, it's a no. I like that. That's a good motto. Yeah, I've used that a lot since he said it. So he was like, look, if it's not right, call it off and focus on you and your music. Can I get you a drink? Yeah, yeah. No, that's a no.

Sorry. Sorry. But imagine if you were someone who answered hell yes to something like that, can I get you a drink? Oh hell yes. Hell yeah, I'm an alcoholic. Yeah, I just meant water. It's 10 in the morning, I'm getting coffee.

Hell yeah! Hell yeah, I'm also a slave to the bean. So yeah, okay, bad example. Anyway. So it wasn't until 1969. Nice. Matt. I wrote nice. You know what I'm missing, I'm a tune. I want to miss that. That is. This is why you did the report I imagined. 1969, some of that. That is. This is why you did the report I imagined. Now it's CC9, some of love. That's when... Summer of the moon.

Woodstock. And also... It's summer of the moon, that's good stuff. Summer of the moon. Summer of the moon. Man, it's summer of the moon. Get your butts out. How many is it?

Yeah, that's what I meant. So, 1969 that Elton released his first solo album. It was titled Empty Sky. Oh, did there anything about? I love it. Brooding. And it attracted little attention and wasn't really all that well received. So for their follow up album. See that, Matt. He doesn't always have to be hit first first go. Any future hits on there? I don't think so. I think it's changed. I think you may be in the past you had more of a chance. I know Bruce Springsteen had a pretty slow build up before he got huge. I think that used to be more common for artists to build.

Yeah, because you build a fan base in your city. Yeah, I think it's changed now and it's more like your first album, you know, there's pressure on for you to make a big bang early, I believe. Well, Elton was a little bit different, I think, because, well, I'll talk about it here. So he's the follow up album was called Elton John. Love it. And Elton and Benny. Elton John love it? Because that is a great title. Elton John. End title. Oh, sorry.

I was waiting for the title. It's weird. Is that in brackets? I hate that. I hate that. Elton John. End title. I hate both of you. Please stop writing this down.

Gary. Stop. It's just called Elton John. Oh my god. He's still fucking right. Gary, you're fired. Yeah, you're fired. What do you think about a non-day boo album with a self title? That happens a bit, people.

I always find that an interesting choice into your career and you go, this is my self title album. Yeah, I find it a bit strange. It's kind of like... I'm going to call my fifth solo show, Jes strange. It's kind of like, um, I'm gonna call my fifth solo show, Jesper. It's kind of like, you could define, you could think of something more more interesting early on, but now you've run out of good titles. That's what that says to me. Right. Now, but I still wouldn't default to my name. I'd go for things like spaghetti, you know? There's options. Banana. Yeah, right. Etc. Yeah. I'm so sweaty.

Yeah. It's really hot. And I know we can play about it constantly, but I'm hot and I'm dying. And about in a few weeks, this studio is going to be cooler. Yep. Right, just in time for winter. Can I wait? Yeah, just in time.

Will it also work as a heater? Yes. Fuck. Yes. That's good news. Woo! Anyway, so they're now they're working on Elton John. Yes. Fuck, yes. That's good news. Anyway, so they're now they're working on Elton John. An Elton and Bernie enlisted a Gus Dungeon as their producer and Paul Buckmaster.

I didn't have, they couldn't afford producers fond, but don't treat us like idiots and make up. These weird day&D game, dungeon and Paul Buckmaster. That's why I thought of dungeons and dragons because it sounds like dungeon. Damn it. I assumed I was reading it wrong. I'm like, no, it's a dungeon. I'll limit experience with dungeons and dragons. I think every character is either called dungeon or dragon. So right. Oh, gas. It's two families. Yeah, I assume that's that's how it

goes. Paul Buckmaster was the musical engineer. And they'd kind of gone to Dick James. I'm Dick James Bitch. I wanted to say that before, but I missed my chance. Yeah, you did it. Hey. Good stuff. They went to him for money to finance this, and he was kind of like, look, it's expensive for what

they're wanting to do because they were using like full orchestras and stuff like that to put together this album, but they're like, we'll take a gamble. So it's quite a second album. They've been investing big in the second one. That's pretty impressive. Second album, Big Budget. Elton John was released in April of 1970. Where was the end of the film? I knew that was going. The album. This is confusing. That's why you know it's self-tile albums.

Right. The album was released recently. He renamed himself by Deed Paul, the album. Yeah. Which is weird. No, it'll name Hercules. The Hercules album. And desperate to get some attention for the album, Dick James sent copies to his contacts

in the US, and one landed in the lap of Russ Regan. He was so desperate for attention for this album that he sent it to people. Mate, back off. Oh, mate, all right. Mate, just play us a bit over the phone. Just be cool. Gross, mate. All right. Matt, just play us a bit over the phone. Just be cool. Gross, mate, back off. Yeah, no.

Go on the cops. Oh, post. Yuck. So, I landed on the lap of Russ Reagan, who was a president of UNI records, and he was so impressed. And he remembers thanking God and thinking it was one of the greatest albums you've ever heard.

What? But this isn't a more modern interview with Russ and I reckon you would be like, Oh, I knew you were straight away. Yeah. It was the best. If he was like, now I'll give it a go. He wouldn't say that would he. He'd be like, I can, I smell talent.

I've heard albums that I've really enjoyed first up, but I've never gone, this is gonna change every year. Yeah, I never thanked God. Usually takes our three or four full guys before you can get a proper opinion. Maybe he did give it three or four, proper goes. And he thanked God, three or four, proper times. But anyway, he was like, we have to bring this guy to America. So Dick James had already taken a gamble on Elton the proving a large budget, like I mentioned.

But with the enthusiasm from Ross and the American Music World, he decided to take one last gamble and fund a trip for Elton in the band to go to America. I like the idea that so funding this album he thought was the big gamble and he's like all right I haven't released it hasn't paid off. Let's chuck it in. Oh what you want more money to promote the album now, you want people to hear it. All right here's more money. Chase, throwing good money after bed. But it was simple swim. It was like, if this doesn't work, then you don't. Yeah, if this doesn't work, I will throw you in the river.

You're done, Zoes. Yeah, which river Dave? Other Hudson. Oh, okay. You're going down. I'm not going to fly you home to Grant. You am I? I'm going to just get someone there to.

Yeah. It was the original miracle on the Hudson when Elton John was thrown into the river and not a single life was lost. Someone saved his life that night. Yeah. He landed on a mustacheoed pilot named... What was his name, burger? What's up with Sully? Sully burger. Burger. We've remembered each remembered half of his name. We've remembered each remembered half of his name really. All right, so he's gone to America. He's in LA and the record company in the US,

we're keen to present out there's someone who's already a star in the UK to kind of help build buzz. Like, oh, he's huge. We're lucky to have him, but really like he wasn't getting much attention at home. Hell yeah, we did that on our UK tour as well. No one cares about the two. Way huge. I love that idea that there was a time not that long ago where you could pretend something

like that. Now you just be like, do a quick Google search like, no you're not. Yeah. Well, a guy in England recently went viral because he organized an American tour in light. Did you read about that? The metal guy. Yeah, I read about that while we're in England.

That was wild. Pooked in a whole trip by basically creating all these Facebook accounts and making his band look like they're popular and faking all these streams and stats. And then when he got, and I said faking ticket sales. So he said that there were pre-sales. Yeah, investing all these money, hiring like session musicians to back him up who were really excited to go over them when they get there. There's zero people at the gigs.

So what would, what would, what would, what would, what is plan was? Yeah. really excited to go over them when they get there. There's zero people at the kicks. And then what would, what would, what would, what would, what is plan was? Yeah, I don't know at what point did you think that it was, yeah, but and then the interview that I read with him, he was a bit like, I controlled all of this. I even tipped off the media that this was fake. It's like, you are a douche. I go, I mean, that is one way of getting some sort of attention,

I suppose, but yeah, it feels like that's a... Kind of backfired. Maybe just make good music, Eric. I mean, that's the thing you did. He wrote an album called Elton John. And it goes a little sub-lifte. Sounds like he was just piped to the post. Anyway, so yeah, they're trying to make him seem like he's already quite famous,

but Elton and Bernie were quite the opposite. Their reality was sharing a bedroom in a little flat in the London suburbs. Like they're not big stars, but they're being treated like they are. So Elton had a week-long run of shows at the Troubadour Club in LA. And the record label ensured that the who's who in the music industry was there to see him. Including the who. The who were there. The first show was a massive success.

Oh. He smashed out of the park, word quickly spread about him. There was a, I forgot his name now. There's a reporter who was talking about seeing the show. And it was at it. Richard Wilkins. Thank you. Yes.

I see big things for him. He was talking about how this venue, the Trubador isn't like the rock and roll or the pop kind of venue, it was like a singer songwriter, you'd go there and Joni Mitchell played there all the time. But they've brought... One of the greatest songwriters of all time. Yeah, totally. But it was more of a mellow club and they brought him in and he just sort of like rocked it out. club and they brought him in and he just sort of like rocked it out. He rocked it out. He rocked it out.

The album's first single, Border Song, peaked at 92 on the Billboard Hot 100. The second single, Your Song, reached number 7 in the UK and number 8 in the US, becoming his first hit single as a singer. And the album soon became his first hit album, reaching number four on the US Billboard 200 and number five on the UK album chart. So he's his second single, well true, second album was your song. That's early days though for a deck for a career that spanned decades. And with this new found success, Elton's stage presence and confidence grew quite suddenly.

They remember somebody, I think it was one of the guys from Blue's Oligi talking about seeing him on TV and though he's interviewed, he's introduced as Elton John and he looked at and he's like, that's not Elton John, that's Reggie Dwight. But he's just like, that's my fucking name. He kind of became this Elton John kind of character, I guess. And over the following years, he became known for his, you know, large-in-the-life shows and his extravagant costumes from feathers to Donald Duck. He dresses in Donald Duck costume, one day.

From feathers to another feathered outfit. He wanted his shows to be unlike anything people had seen before. And he had the confidence to do what he wanted, not care, what other people said. And even quite recently, this is a quote from him. He said, I want people to be astounded when I come on stage. And I want people to be astounded when I leave the stage. Oh my God, he's gone! What the hell just happened?

I am astounded. Okay, so this is just like a summary of the next, I guess a few years, summary of the next few albums. So next they did a concept album called Tumble Lead Connection. I haven't heard that, but that is a great concept. It was a country-western Americana thing. Wow, okay. I mean, you've just started to make it.

Yeah, you've only been to LA, but you're like, no, I know all about this list of land. Americana. That is, yeah, your belief in yourself is high. Yeah. I am a genius. It was released in 1970 and it reached number two in the UK, number five in the US. Okay, well it was very popular. I'm a fool. Yes you are, but that's unrelated. Matt high five me. Matt high five. Thank you. Two good high fives. Let's go.

But at least I felt part of that. The next one was madman across the water. Manman or madman? Madman, manman. Madman across the water is pretty good. Madman. I'll name it man. Maximus sent to the last time. Man.

What do you mean, tumbleweed connection? tumbleweed connection. That's great. There's a chemit, chemit rings. The tumbleweed connection. Connection great. There's a camera. Yeah, camera rings, the tumbleweed connection, the labors rolling like thunder under the covers. One and nine. One one nine.

So Mad Man across the water came out in 1971. It was his next album. It reached number eight in the US and produced one of his most successful songs. The album's opening track, Tiny Dancer. Oh, great song. Blue Jean, baby. L.A. Lady. Seemstress.

For the band. Thank you. I mean, Danny, you've done it again. Oh God, he's good. There must have been other songwriters on the side going, maybe I could get in there and have a go. I could throw some words out.

No, no, no, I've earned his my good luck, John. Blue, Jean, baby. L-A, L-A-D. It's just writing dead things he sees. I said, don't. Oh, on the get-ness. He's like, he'll never use this, but I'll dump my pages for the day. He just had a word can every day.

Pirate small, is it pirate small? Yeah. Good. That is a great tune. Yeah, it's amazing. Love a builder. Love a big build. Oh, my clothes are tiny, tiny dance, sir.

How'd I feeling this episode would result in a fair bit of singing from a moire? The next one was released in 1972. It was called Honky Shatter. Love it. Became his first US number one album. Spent five weeks at the top of the Billboard 200. That's big, baby. And began a streak of seven consecutive US number one albums.

Holy shit. Isn't that massive? Yeah, that's wild. Crazy. Seven in a row. Reach number two in the UK and it spawned a hit like Honkycat and Rocketman. You familiar with Rocketman? I've never heard that one, but I've heard it Honkycat.

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I reckon we've just penned our first number one album. Benny, you've done it again! Now, the next album was a pop album called Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the piano player. That's good. That's probably his best titles. Don't shoot me I'm just the piano player. Shoot the other guy with the gun. He's got a gun. with the gun. He's got a gun. It came out at the start of 1973, reached number one in the UK, the US and here in Australia. Number three. The album produced hits like Crocodile Rock, which was his first US billboard. Rock it down. Rock it down.

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What about the other one? I mean, like, crocodile went the wrong way, don't mess. My dad always told me, big album, John Van Donut is true, but he was inspired to write Crocodile Rock because he was inspired by the Daddy Cool song Eagle Roy. Aussie classy. He was like, that's a really good song. I should write my own style of that. So you're at the Crocodile Rock, which I imagine worldwide. my full focus. Yeah. So he just takes things from other people.

Is it a takeer? Elton, John. So did we get our roll? I mean, if Bernie's writing the words, did Bernie do that? Yeah, I guess so. I mean, he said to Bernie, I reckon that's a really cool kind of song. We should write something like that and Bernie, the next date, is handed in. It's a piece of paper that said crocodile rock. Do it. And the crocodile rock. You know, Bernie, this sounds pretty similar, but I'll go with you. Just do it. Shut off.

Um, okay. So next was Goodby Yellowbick Road, which was released in 73. This is like, uh, that's the second album in the same year. So don't shoot me. I'm only the piano player came out the start of 73 towards the end of 73. He's got another one out. And they're both. By contract, he's got a he's doing two a year. Oh, he has to. Yeah. But also he's actually doing more than that. I read somewhere across the space of three years, he released like seven albums, which is only an extra one. But anyway, like he's still heaps.

But he was talking about, he was like, you know, I was young and it's just that young adrenaline. And you only have that for so long and for such a certain period of your career. So you just kind of go with it. Yeah, I guess that's smart. And some way it's like, oh, space it out, mate. But maybe the public, the public may have gotten over

him, you know, you just don't know. Maybe that kind of music goes out of style or whatever. So maybe it's best to just, because now the rest of his career is just playing the hits of those first 15 years or whatever, how many years when he was like on the top of his game. Oh, well seven in a row of number one. So you're a good thing. But that's seven in three years then, right? Oh, well, he just, he keeps going from here. Okay.

We're only about three issues since his first album. And it gets bigger. So this album, Goodbye, Yellowbick Road, gained instant critical acclaim and topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic. And it remained a number one for two months. It also kind of established him as a glam rock star and it contained the songs Ben in the Jets, Goodby Yellow Big Road, Candle in the Wind, Saturday nights all right for fighting and funeral for a friend.

Holy shit, that's a big album. That is sort of his iconic album. So you only need album title of Rocky Mars so far. Yeah, right. Man, man across the river. Oh, sorry, man, man. Thank you. That and man, man. Obviously, the big two. This is just something kind of interesting.

In 1974, he collaborated with John Lennon on a cover of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. And the B side was Lennin's one day at a time. And in return, Elton John was featured on whatever gets you through the night on Lenin's walls and bridges out. Crack and tune. Later that year in what would be one of John Lenin's last major life performances, the pair performed these two number one hits along with the Beatles, I saw her standing there at Madison Square Garden in New York. And John Lennon really made stage appearances by that stage, but he did appear with Elton John and his band to keep the promise he'd made that he would appear on stage with him if whatever gets you through the night became a

US number one. I'll do it if it gets the number one. It did and he's like, all right. Gosh. It made kind of wild. What a gig to be at, that would have been. Yeah. You'd be dining out on that story for the rest of your life. I was there.

I was there. It's like when people tell you they saw the Beatles in Melbourne, it's like, for. For. And that wild. Absolutely wild. I saw Franz Ferdinand at Festival Hall, so it's similar. I saw the Fufide is there.

It was Festival Hall, were they played, wasn't it? Yeah. I saw on the 50th anniversary, I saw a Beatles cover band play at Festival Hall. Were they good? Yeah, that was great. Cool. You know, for a...

Because if you're gonna put that on, you'd want it to be like a really good Beatles cover band. While that you get so many people, I guess it's the event and everything in the name. Yeah, the anniversary, that's kind of cool. Just a bit of fun. A bit of fun. So to celebrate five years since he'd first appeared at the venue, in 1975, Elton John played a two-night four-show stand at the Troubadour, where he first went over to LA. So he's done all of this in five years,

all these huge albums. Seating was limited to under 500 per show. So the chance to buy a ticket was determined by a lottery with each winner allowed two tickets. Everyone who attended the performance received a hardbound yearbook of the band's history. It was like this big thing. During that trip, he performance received a hard bound year book of the band's history. It was like this big thing. During that trip, he also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and performed two

sell-out shows at Dodger Stadium, the first music actor performed there since the Beatles nine years earlier. Right. And with a star, he would have been pretty young to get it. Yeah, he's about 20 years, seven, 28. Oh dear. Oh dear. Yep.

So when he got there and they gave him the star, they declared it Elton John Week. It was huge. Every time someone gets the star, I said that person, Clint Eastwood Week. I mean, I've never heard anybody else celebrate Ellen John Week since. Every week. How long is that story? Every year, because it feels like everyone's got a star there. Matt, salt on the wounds, we don't have one.

Come on, let's eat it guys, I don't have one. Oh, get fucked, how do you get one? How'd you get one, mate? I've been around the block a few times. Yeah, you're a bit older than us. This is my first buddy, rodeo. We'll get one. I did a sellout tour of Dodd-Dustadium once.

A hundred thousand people turned up to Sam. Is that half wow? A hundred thousand people. God. It is wild. This is only, again, five years after his first album. It's insane. Also, he's had seven number one albums.

I feel like if anyone's gonna sell out a hundred thousand CD, totally, but it's just such a short period of time. Like if you think about what you were doing five years ago, it doesn't feel that far away, but you're like, Jesus, what am I going to do in the next five? What what is it? Because Adele doesn't really sell them to the age. And the no, she's not doing that anymore.

She's done the trilogy. What, so what were they? 1921, 25. So that were her first three albums. I think so, yeah. Yeah. 1921, 25. Yeah. So first three albums in that age span.

Dave? 19. Six years. 21, 25. The middle one doesn't matter that much. Not only in 25. How many of we talking here? Obviously three three albums in how many years Six years really just said that's a bit different

Why I just wanted to confirmation from some and also I think it's longer than that because it's it's the the age You was when she started recording the album right? So often it takes a couple of years I think that what that last time took a two or three years to go out. Yeah, I heard in it. Well, she did an interview with Graham Norton and he was like, you're going to just keep going until you're 95. And she was like, nah, I'm stopping there. I believe in trilogies, which I love. I believe in trilogies. Oh, no, no, they're a myth for sure. If Bernie thought that, he'd write it down. But we believe in trip ditches. Yeah, I do believe in that. Yes, we're not so different.

That's why there's three of us on the show. We are a trip ditch. Yeah. Of podology. Adele believes in us. In us? Isn't that nice, she talks? Not us.

She can say it us. Can you? She's Adele. Go on. Us. Huh. There you go. Unbelievable.

I'll believe in us. Do you reckon Adele and I could be friends? It's a genuine question. She seems fun. She does seem fun. Yeah, that's why I'm going to say no. But not like a party out. Not like a crazy party out like Lindsay Lowe and 10 years ago, you know?

Yeah. Like I feel like Adele would very happily just have like a glass of wine in her PJs and we'd watch movies. More likely than cleaned the low hand 10 years from now. I hope so I really hope there's there's positivity for her future. I do. That's positivity. I do want that for her. Quite glass of wine. What we all want. What we all want. I cleaned matching PJs with your best friend Adele. I'm Adele. Anyway, so besides being the most commercially successful period, 1970-1976 is also held in the most regard critically. So it's like people love it, but so do the critics.

And yeah, it's what I was talking about before. But only a three-year span between 72 and 75, he saw seven consecutive albums reached number one in the US, something which had not been accomplished before. So he's exploded. But as with literally every story we've ever heard about musicians or actors or any kind of performer who reaches some kind of level of fame and success,

he struggled with the pressure of traveling. The Rock and Roll lifestyle, which included a lot of drugs and alcohol. So he exploded. He. Made a real mess. Yeah. Even this is in a docker I was watching, even the night before the show at Dodger Stadium. Having flown, he flew his parents and grandparents and some friends over from the UK. No wonder he could sell 100,000. He's flying a crowd in. So 100,000 he's flying you proud in. Yeah, 98 pairs of remport. He's brought in his parents and grandparents.

We're looking at like four people. How many more tickets do you need to sell after that? Like seven or eight? You're a long way there now. That's what we should be doing. He's flying in our parents. Flying in our parents. My dad's a plane.

My dad's a rocket man. Dave, what's your dad? My dad's a plane my dad's a rocket man Dave what's your dad? Some sort of heli chomp to heli chomp to That's a tomato a picturing like a flying dinosaur. Yeah, I'm I'm yeah, that's me dad He's a heli chomp. Yeah, I did see to pick me up. Well see like flying into totus stadium Yeah, he killed a lot of people that day. So he's um yeah he's it's a big deal he's phone he's family over but um this is the night before he took an overdose of pills apparently like an attempt on his own life.

Um obviously he recovered well enough to perform. That's pretty impressive. That's a mate. It's so weird and surreal. Russ Reagan was saying, this is a quote from him. He said, he never showed it on stage. That expression the show must go on. He did that. He got on stage and you'd never even know he was depressed.

God, that is so sad. Because then now you're going to watch all your favourite artists like, but how are you? This shows amazing, but are you okay? Dr. Stage. Keep in mind, he was 28 years old. And in the span of five years, he'd gone from quiet and reserved, wretched white to the biggest pop star in the world. I'm jealous of him yet he's suicidal. It's like oh gosh. It's pretty um I don't envy them. Yeah no that level of fame is uh... beyond what I would have ever wanted. That is... And beyond what you'll ever get to be fair.

You're right do you think so? Are you telling me that by 28, which is a dope thing? Rocket man, Rocket man. And I hope we passed the audition. That was beautiful. Thank you so much. I think we just cut your face. I'm sorry. Five seconds of me singing Rocket Man. Thank you so much. I think we just cut your first hit record. I'm sorry, I have a bad idea. Five seconds of me singing Rocket Man.

Strip that, loop it. Lube it. Lube it. Lube it, God. No, but that, in all honesty though, that level of success, 100,000 people are coming to see. That is overwhelming for anyone. Yeah, I can't say. Especially.

28 and like you say, five years earlier, Jess, he's living in a, I assume he's still living in a one bedroom flat with Bernie. I don't think so. Oh, okay. Yeah, I think he's, no, actually. That's where it all went wrong. When he flew out his family and stuff, they were staying in his house in LA. So he's already got a couple of properties. It's just crazy. I would like a really slow success. Yeah, I want to, you should pick in your 90s, I reckon. I want to. Me, Pesley.

Yeah. Yeah, that's what I'll do my best work. In the 20 80s. Wow. Trigger. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to 90s. I reckon I want Made best one. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I'll do my best work in the 20 80s

Wow, Tricky. I'll live that long day hell yeah, we're gonna career will live longer though. Am I right Matt? Thanks Dave because your career is gonna be as a corpse on display Yeah, we're gonna donate your body to that guy in Germany that turns our corpses into museum objects. I want to be a chair. Okay. Well, he does all sorts of weird stuff. A beautiful choice. When people sit on me, it's kind of like a hug. Yeah, a sitting spoon. Yeah. Ah, that's nice, because I love spooning. He can put wire through your arms so they're bendable or anything. Yeah, perfect. Oh That's nice. I can be the big spoon for you or you can spoon me. Either or. And if you turn to your left there's a bookshelf and on that bookshelf, here's a book made from my skin. So we're all there.

We're together in here. Matt are you there? No, he's the one paying to spoon. I'm sitting on the chair. I'm sitting on the reed. I'm sitting on the re, having a read. I'm sitting on the chair, having a read of the skin walk. It's the curse of immortality. All right, so just a little bit as well on his, like I said, at the very top, I've brushed over a lot of things because this is a life that has contained a lot, but just a few key points here. Have we got up to the Kiki-D?

She went, yeah. That kind of came after. And I, Barani was talking about how they've got, like he's proud of the music that they've created and there's a lot of good stuff in there, but he also talks to me, he's like, there's some duds. Right. And he talks about a fair bit of fluff.

Yeah. Like music just, and he talks about that Kiki D, chewette is being fair bit of fluff. Yeah. Like music just, and he talks about that Kiki-D, um, duet is being a bit of fluff. What are you talking about? Ah. It's a banger. Farlands in the stream, yeah. How did you grade a song?

Oh. Now you need to be jealous of Kiki, Bernie. Yeah, come on, just because he didn't duet with you. Yeah. You were always the other partner. Yeah. Silent, silent partner. Yeah. Silently, very always the other partner. Yeah. Silent, Silent Partner. Yeah. Silently,

very, very wealthy partner. In an interview with Rolling Stone in 1976, Elven John came out as bisexual. In 84, he married German recording engineer Renata Blaul in Darling Point in Sydney. Like, I'm made in Sydney. That's crazy, isn't it? But of course, because he'd come out as bisexual, people then speculated that the marriage was a cover for his homosexuality because it was the 80s. I mean, if you're trying to cover that,

you come out and you talk about your sexuality very openly. Yeah. That's a classic way of covering your sexuality. Oh, so you claim to be bisexual, which means you're attracted to both genders. And now you've married a woman. Ha ha, gay. What does that mean?

What a wild time. You don't understand any of this. They were married for four years before they divorced in 1988. And after his divorce, he told the magazine he was comfortable being gay. So I guess in a way. Annoyingly, it's made it. It's kind of right. But it's not always the case, right? And ignorant in their correctness.

They happened anyway. Shut up. And what happened to Bla-oh? I love hearing you, soy boys, get fucked up. Yeah, we're so sorry. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm just, I'm just, I'm being a bit of a warrior for social justice over here. They haven't made it this far, those people

that don't like us. And if I have, they can fuck off. Anyway. In 1993, he began a relationship with David Surnish, who's a former advertising executive and now filmmaker originally from Toronto. That was a Toronto accent. He's from Toronto.

Toronto. Didn't not realize. Interesting. That's just a little side note there. I'll come back to them later. Oh, okay. Cisal. Can you feel the love tonight?

Can you feel, which is what I'm talking about right now, along with Tim Rice, Elton John wrote the songs for the 1994 Disney animated film The Lion King. Now Dave, which one is Tim Rice? All right, there's Tim Curry, Tim Rice. Yes, which one's which? Tim Curry. Is the bad guy in McCale's Navy?

He's the, the remake with Tom Arnold. He's the sassy one, because Curry's sassy. He's rooster in the orphanani. He's also in Congo. He's in Congo, move we took a red or primates. That's right. And with a baffling accent. Yeah, wow.

He went full Tim Curry on that role. With something you should never do. And Tim Rice. You never went an Academy Award going full curry. You know, it has won the Academy Award. Tim Rice, when he goes full Tim Rice. Right. Well, speaking of Academy Awards,

at the 67th Academy Award, three of the five nominees for the Academy Award for Best Song were from the Lion King soundtrack. And that is crazy. I know. I mean, I really hope they won. Well, Elton John won the award for Can you feel the love tonight, which goes a little something like this.

Rocket man. Yeah, that's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. Bernie's just in the wings, a little bit pissed off. That he didn't get the coat off. Oh yeah, that's right.

That's right. Yeah. Bernie's like, you fucking figure. Probably not. And then it doesn't strike me as that type. Seems like a pretty chilled out dude. Actually, we did an episode of Primates About Liking a few weeks back.

That is a fascinating film. And apparently it was the first time they got a big name musician to do the music for a film before that, they didn't really do that. And same with the cast, they didn't normally have big name musician to do the music for a film before that they didn't really do that and and same with the cast they didn't normally have big name actors through the whole cast it was the first part from Robin Williams in Aladdin but he was sort of just one out and then this one it was an all-suck ass JTT Darth Vader Nathan Lane Jeremy Irons Rowan Atkinson. Oh, yes

Whoopi Goldberg Etc Big cast Matthew Broderick. There we go So can you feel the love tonight won the award both that and circle of life became hit songs for Elton John Can you feel the love tonight also won him a Grammy award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the Grammys? Obviously, after the release of the Lion King soundtrack, the album remained at the top of the Billboard 200

for nine weeks. Huge! Wow, I speak of the Nolis other stuff. It's massive. Also in 1994, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Guns and Roses frontman Axel Rose. Well, I bet he was on it. Yeah. Who would you choose to to present you with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Probably Axel Rose. Really? Yeah. I would go Duff McCaggan. That's going to go for Day Medna. What's going to go bucket head?

The brief replacement. Very fast for slash. Very brief. So you picked Day Medna. Yes! All right. Love it work. She's a real bad luck. Yep. She went from a regular woman to a dame. Yeah, she really I think she grew up in Mooney Ponds. Correct. Yeah Wow

Such an inspiration in early September of 1997 He contacted his writing partner Bernie to open asking him to revise the lyrics of his 1973 song, Candle in the Wind, to honor Princess Diana of Wales who'd been killed in a car accident just the week earlier. In 1997, that was the same day that the Saints beat Port Adelaide to finish on top of the ladder at the end of the season. So a real role-cosa of a day. We all know where we were on that day.

For me, it was a great day. Time zone-wise, though, that probably happened before she died too, eh? Yeah, I just remember being real happy that day. Matt. But I don't think... Some kids lost their mum. No, I mean about the... I'm talking about the footy. I know, but like...

Some Adelaide fans lost what they said. Yeah. Port Adelaide fans though. Adelaide fans. Adelaide ended up being innocent at Grand Final, so thank you very much. You sang you can't refit a Port Adelaide as Adelaide. Well. It's Adelaide and it's Port Adelaide.

Different teams. That is ridiculous. You know there's Melbourne and North Melbourne as well. Yeah, well two Melbourne's don't make a right. No, he's right. Hey, he's right. He's right. He's right. I'm he's right. That is right. He's right.

I'm sorry, you saw it boys. Obviously, Princess Diana was a great princess and an inspiration to all of us. Thank you. And I wasn't at all trying to make light of that, but it was a great day for this now. On the 6th of September in 1997, he performed Candle in the Wind 1997, for the only time in a live setting at the funeral of Diana in Westminster Abbey. And the song became the fastest and biggest selling single of all time, eventually selling over 33 million copies worldwide, the best selling single in UK chart history.

Isn't that crazy? Yeah, that a cover of your chart history. Isn't that crazy? Yeah, that a cover of your own song. Yeah, then just becomes. I think there's so much, obviously it's a great song anyway, but also the country was just mourning real hard. Big time. And the world.

Yeah, she wasn't even just the princess of Wales. She was the world's princess. Yep. In Wales. The people's princess. And we did that to her. I'll, you know, via the media, handing her into a car crash. I mean, we were seven. Thank you. So I don't think we all played a role. All right. Yep. Well, we acknowledged what we did.

Yeah, I remember playing with my Batman toys when I heard that she was in a car accident. Why did you do that, Dave? Because I got off my birthday and I got the Mr. Freeze and it was really cool. I was playing with toy cars, which was insensitive on my part. Oh, come on, Jess Bitt. And you became a journalist. Yeah. You went to study journalism. But she gave it up because when she understood what the media had done to. Yeah.

I just wanted to get in, I wanted to be some good on the inside. Right. Make change from the inside out. Exactly. And then I didn't go into journalism. Be the journalist you want to see in the world. Exactly. Thank you.

Thank you. That's beautiful. So the pro-sides from the song, which was approximately 55 million pound. Oh, we're donated to Diana's Charities via the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund. And at one Elton John, the Grammy award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 40th annual Grammys in 1998. So we got a Grammy for that as well for doing a cover of his own song.

Profiting from tragedy. Right, do you give it all a charity? Well, did he give the award to charity? Probably did. Probably did. Probably did. Yeah, probably did. Um, in 1997, the Lion King musical debuted on Broadway

and the West End in 1999. In 2014, it had grossed over $6 billion to become the top-earning title in box office history for both stage production and films. So passing the record previously held by Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical, The Phantom of the Opera, and Andrew Lloyd Webber, of course, notoriously big VR chatter move, Maxwell Sheffield. That's right. That crusty old conductor. I mean, composer. Yeah. Go down. I forget. I always forget his name. I remember Sheffield. That's right. That crusty old conductor. I mean composer.

Yeah. Go down. I was figured his name. I remember Sheffield's name, but I think. That's well. What's the other guy's name? Andrew Lloyd Weber. Yeah.

Shit beneath my feet. It's what I call him Weber. So you should be happy then because Elton John beat him. Yeah. Took his record off him. The fool. The top of the opera. The top of the opera.

The top of the upper row is there All right, I have a winch inside But now it is brrr inside your butt Um the phantom Which is shush phantom I do say The phantom always plays up when I eat spicy food Do you know you're but the Phantom?

No, he's in for but oh That's what you said as confused. Oh, please excuse me the Phantom of the Opera is here Inside my butt Returning to musical theater Elton John composed music for a West production of Billy Elliott, The Musical in 2005, with Playwright Lee Hall. Opening to strong reviews, the show won four Lawrence Olivier Awards, including Best New Musical. It was the 11th longest-running musical in Western history, and the London production ran through April 2016 after 4,566 performance. He knows was performed in the theatre where we saw Hamilton. Yeah, it was a replacement, yeah.

Have we talked about saying Hamilton? That was great fun. It was great fun. I don't even realize. Last year. Do I like musicals? I'm confused now, because. Did you like Hamilton?

I enjoyed that. And you like Annie. I think you like musicals. Come on, right, you do. There's something about it, I'm not now, because... Did you like Hamilton? I enjoyed that. And you like Annie. I think you like musicals. Come on, right, you do. There's something about him that I'm not sure about. That's okay. I historically really dislike them, but I really enjoyed Hamilton.

Hmm, interesting. This is great. These are good chats. Oh, thank you. Tell me what else you don't like and do like. Oh, okay. Wait, I was a joke. I've got a report today. Oh, okay. I fucking roasted.

Brussels Brass and custard. You do or don't? You don't like custard. I love custard. Don't like Brussels Brass. I do not. Interesting. You're a real cliche. Mm-hmm. The show grossed over $800 million worldwide and is a winner of over 80 theatre awards internationally. This is Billy Elliot. Yeah.

Huh, never heard of it. Thank you. And speaking of musicals, in January of 2017, it was announced that Elton John would be composing the score for the full Monty for the Broadway musical version of the Devil Wears Prada. Yes! He's wearing Prada, the Devil's wearing Prada. Here he comes Nada, the Devil's wearing Prada. Oh, that is good. How long, Father. We come from Camp Granada. With Devil Wearing Prada. This shit razz itself. How many learns live year was we be winning? Well the time like the musical is yet to be announced

when it's gonna come out so. Did you skip over the part where he composed something for Nomeo and Juliet? Jess. Did he? Do you research? I think so. Well, maybe do you research before you get... And am I in my research? No, that was rude. And I got all the... In March of 2007 he performed at Madison Square Garden for a record-breaking 60th time for his 60th birthday. 60 times, G-S-E-P-B.

60 times! The concert was broadcast live and a DVD recording was released as Elton 60 live at Madison Square Garden. It's an exciting title. Name, age, love it. ASL. Yeah, love it. Um. I'm looking up no male Julia.

I'm not seeing any mention of Elton John. Is that right Dave? Although it did star Ozzy Osborne. So in a way, aren't we all right? Star? He was one of the voices apparently. I don't know. I don't know.

No, he was Juliet. He's very, very low down. He was end. On the list. So in December of 2005, the day the civil partnership actor came into force, Elton and David were amongst the first couples to form a civil partnership in the UK. And nine years later to the day, they married after gay marriage had finally been legal.

So they'd already been to this since 1993. They were one of the first couples in 2005 to get a partnership. And then when gay marriage was legalized, I was like, let's get hitched. They're oldest son, they've got two boys. They've got Zachary Jackson Leven furnished John. Look at that, he's good.

That's fun. You hate it. Say again, so let's break out. We need to go through it name by name. What is it? Zachary? Zachary? Jackson. Levant. Furnish John. Furnish John is hyphenated. Furnish John is a sound like a funny name.

Did you go John Furnish? John Furnish is better. I agree. Furnish John. But when not the parents? It's also, it's funny that yeah, he's really committed to John being his surname. Well, he's legally changed his name to it in the 70s. So I mean, that's his name now. I'm happy for a happy for them. The character.

And John Zachary was born on Christmas day in 2010. What day is this? Why is Christmas day? And they've also got another son, Elijah Joseph, Daniel, Furnish John. Dan Heron, my brother. And he was born in 2013. Well, you know, two young kids. Are you still looking up Nomeo and Julia? Well, they had their first son during that period. Elton John was working on the Nomeo and Julia at original soundtrack,

produced by Elton John and David Furnish, the partner. We're talking about right now. And includes the duet of Lady Gaga and Elton John of the song Hello Hello. It also features crocodile rock, Saturday and I had to write, don't go breaking my heart. It's basically, it's just Elton John songs.

Benny and the Jets, tiny dancer. I'm not crazy after all, good news everyone. Ooh, I don't know. Stop tweeting in about Nomi on Julia. It seemed a little bit crazy. A couple more things I'm nearly done. I just wanted to wrap up with a couple of things. Sorry, sorry. I'm trading on your toes

about the Nomi on Julia facts. Well, that won't be one hour. I was going to end on that. But now this will just fizzle out. No big finish then. In January of last year, 2018, it was announced that Elton John would be retiring from touring

and would soon embark on a three year farewell tour. Wow, if he lives that long, gosh. It's only 71 or something. Okay, well, I mean. I love that though, like if he lives. I think that is true of any tour. Yeah, good point. Good point.

But also I like it because he's reasoning for retiring is for his kids. Just spend more time with his kids. So instead, while they're like 10 or 1's, 8's and 1's 5, he's going to just 2 or 3 years. Yeah, I'll be back on your 6th 8th. It's fine, don't worry about it. The first concert took place in Allentown, Pennsylvania in September of 2018. And yeah, he, this is a quote remember me says 10 years ago if you asked me if I'd ever stopped touring, I would have said no. But we had children and that changed our lives. I've had an

amazing life in career, but my life has changed. My priorities are now my children and my husbands and my family. That's nice. That is nice. But you, I agree with you, Jess, you think that he would take some time off now and then maybe in his late 70s come out and do a few final concerts and he still loves the form. Yeah, don't spend three years doing a farewell tour. Like, maybe, obviously he's huge and if you're going to do a farewell tour, you want to get to everywhere you can, but also like three years is a long time. But anyway, I mean, you know,

he can make his own life choices, I suppose. And will we be going to see him on his farewell tour? Uh, no. Okay. I've got to refund those tickets like Port Matt Frizz birthday. Oh God, I thought he was a fan. Yes. Yes.

God, now I've got to buy those tickets back. Oh God. Now they triple the price. Oh my God, now I've got to buy those tickets back. Oh, God. Oh, God. Now they triple the price. They won more money. Ah! I'd definitely, I'd go see him perform, Arakin. Well, would you go see a biopic? Yes, no, yes, maybe.

Is it called Kenneth? That would be a bit of a... He's middle-known. It's called Rocket Man. Oh, that's pretty good. Do they have much info about it? It's set to be released in May. Right pretty good. Do they have much in fellow better? It's set to be released in May. Right, so they've got a star in everything, man.

Yeah, yeah, so it's directed by Dexter Fletcher, who directed Behemian Rhapsody, which was about Freddie Mercury. And it's going to start Teran Edgerton as Elton. And he has had some experience with Elton's music. He performs a cover of why I'm still standing in the animated film Sing. Is he a rhino? Something like that. They're all animals. Is he, is that, um, the Aussie Edgerton, is he a, Edgerton brother? No, I see. Different go. Yeah.

Taj Edgerton. Taran. Taran. Oh shit. Kingsman. Why, I mean, why is saying a movie that no one's ever seen? It's a good movie. And finally, some fun facts, if I may. Oh, love it. Having done fun facts for a while, but I've just got a couple here. Aside from his two children that he has with his husband, he also has 10 God children, including Sean Lennon, John Lennon's son. Wow.

David and Victoria Beckham's son's Brooklyn and Romeo, and Elizabeth Hurley's son Damian Hurley. You'd think if your mom was Elizabeth Hurley, you'd have a more glamorous name than Damian. That's just a little side, but that. Cops that, Damian's of the world. Yeah, my cousin Damian, sorry, Damo, you're great, but your name's Little Dull.

What about Damian Rotton, the... Oh, I'm not as quick at. I'm not a picker. Yeah, I love Cricut. Well, now you've heard the feelings of one of the greats. Damien Martin. He had all the talent in the world, never quite converted that into a... To resumpt. Plenty of G.C.

He was beautiful to watch when he was going. That's nice. Yeah. Like a one more fun fact. Is it that Damien Martin? No. Like a one more fun fact. Is it bad to him in Martin? No. Because that would be so apt.

The video for... So Elton John, after a while, he didn't want to be in his own music videos anymore. So the video for this train don't stop there anymore, featured Justin Timberlake, portraying a young Elton John. And there's also a video for I Want Love, which featured Robert Downey Jr. lip-syncing. But you're trying an even younger Elton John.

How cool is that? They do age Robert Downey with the Marvel technology. I know, they're good. That's cool. I totally get that as well. I think I'd be eventually get to be like, just make a short film, his money. Yeah, just get an animated thing,

get some patents, just make it artistic. I'm money. I don't want to get an animated thing, get some patents, make an artistic. I'm busy. Just get Robert Downed Union, whatever. I've had enough of pretending to sing my song over and over again. How's your pretty tedious? But yeah, that is my report on the life of Elton John. That was a lot of fun, Jess Perkins.

That's pretty interesting. Obviously, there's haves more. He's like, I mean, he's one of the biggest artists ever. Of the last century, yeah. And that was that period he's life already was what's spending like $200,000 on flowers a month or something. Did you come across that?

Yeah, I think so. Like, he just went out of control. But he and Bernie wrote together for like five decades. And Bernie still loved? Yeah. Oh, I think so. The docker I was watching was from a few years ago, but I believe so. Someone was telling me, I don't know if this is true, but someone was telling me that he,

because he gets homesick or something when he's touring, so he has every room he stays and he gets made to look exactly like his bedroom. Oh, wow. So you didn't come across that. That might not be true. No, I think I did. That sounds absolutely wild. And Bernieauppin is still alive. And to be honest, like an Elton John impersonator, that's what he looks like.

Oh, he's cool dude. So yeah, there we go. What a life. What a report. Good times. Thank you so much, Jess. Pleasure, thanks for having me. I thank everyone that suggested that topic. Is there any other crazy but very interesting

lives you want us to report on or any topic at all? You can go to dogoonpod.com and click our submit a topic. Take you to a little form. You fill it out. Tell us where you are in the world so we can thank you and we do the topic. And tell us why it's interesting. That always helps make it jump out amongst the thousands of suggestions. If you did enjoy this as a topic we've done a bunch of English musician buyers before like the Beatles and David Bowie and Freddie Mercury. I've done all of those. Have you really? And we're done a bunch of American ones too like Johnny Cash and Pantera and others. Gosh I haven't done if have I not done a musician then? Dave, when you get your next vote should be...

All right, I'll do it. My next vote on the Patreon will be cool musos. Nice. Nice. Nice. But that does bring us to the end of the report part of the show, but to the start of the Patreon Presents, I guess, in a way, part of the show, but to the start of the Patreon Presents, I guess, in a way part of the show. That's right. And first up, of course, is the factor quote or question.

And we get all that stuff from patreon.com. So I do go on part of your support, the show, give back a couple of bucks, or even more every month, you can go to patreon.com. So I do go on part like I say, and you get bonus rewards, shout out, access to pre-sales, discounts on tickets, and two bonus episodes every single month. No one else hears those. Not even Reginald Kenneth Dwight. No, no matter what he says. Actually, he's a Patreon. Well, he can afford it. Yeah. A similar sort of triple-barreled name is this week's Fact Quotal Questioner from our Patreon, Kevin Ulysses Packrad. I love that name.

It's a great name. He's a fact-quotal question before his title this time around. So you get to give yourself a title and then offer us a fact-quotal question to be read at the end of the episode. The title, Kevin's given himself is, your mum's great friend, who doesn't want to intrude in on your personal life, it feels as though there's a moral obligation involved.

Love that. Thank you, Kevin. And he's offered a quote and the quote is, you know, I love a quote inspirational. He could take inspiration from it, yes. All right, no wonder what it is. I promised to be in spot. This, uh, this one he, he put a poll out, uh, to the Patreon Facebook group to see what quote he should give and they wanted to do an ad lib sort of thing.

So he, I think a bunch of people on the Patreon's added a couple of words each and this is what it's ended up being. I've not read this yet. I always try to talk, do you know what I'm saying? Does that make sense? Yeah, right. So it's a combined poetry essentially. Yeah.

Yeah. I always try to talk about where I was found within the line stand of my wretched soul. Pondering the floating jellyfish from out of banana hammock, where the bananas are constantly consumed and expelled with joists for a- for a Volity. The only way forward is if it- the only way forward is if Matt and Jess and Festive Boy continue to reference Simpsons each week forever more. I will never stop until you eat my shorts and pray when this airs the legalization is ended. That is from the duke on. Wow. Wow. That was wow. Especially the first sentence. It did sound like

the opening of a novel. That was beautiful. That was wow. Thank you so much to everyone that can I think there's so much you can read into it too. You could unpack a lot out of that. Yes. I would have spent many a lit class analyzing the shit out of that passage. I love it. What do they mean by bananas? Yeah, do they mean bananas?

No. Symbolic. Symbolic bananas. These phallic, some sort of phallus. Phallus. Dicks. Yes. Potassium. Oh, potassium dicks. Foulos. Dicks. Yes. Potassium. Oh, potassium dicks.

Chimps. Chimps. Oh, chimps. Maybe it's chimps. Chimps dick. There we go. We've got to the bottom of it. Maybe some sort of chimps dick triptitch.

We cracked the code. Thanks guys. Sensing another code. We'll crack it. So if you want to do that, you get on the Patreon and subscribe on the City Sharnberg level or above. And also what we like to do at the end of episodes is shout out to some other Patreons. And we normally do it in a way with where Jess gives us a little game to play base on the topic of the episode.

Hmm. Did we, when we did Freddie Mercury, did we give them stage names? That sounds possible. Yeah, I feel like we've done that before. Should we name their album? Great. I love that. You okay with that?

I love that. You hate it. Oh my god. No, no, I love it so much. Just to recap, my favorite album was definitely Tumbleweed Connection. Connect. Oh god, that's good. But this doesn't...

Oh, we connection. even though I said that, it was like I said a word and just completed it. Maybe we could name the albums that way. Yes! I imagine that's often how Bernie works. He plays that game with himself. He's like one word, Calvary, right another word, Calvary. God, I've done it again.

He just flicks the rediction area and closes his eyes and points. Yeah, beautiful. Number eight. Banana land. Connection. Banana land, banana. God, I've done it again.

He is good. All right, well, I'll kick it off. So we're each going to add one word to the title. Yep. So firstly, I'd love to thank from Western Australia, Mr Cameron Warns. Cameron Warns. Okay, Rusty. Nail.

Head. Oh, that's fun too. That's something from WA, you reckon? That's Nailhead. It's Country album. Of course. Cameron Warns. Cameron Warns.

Thanks Cameron. I'm looking forward to hearing your album Rusty Nailhead. Do I just want to come out please? I'd also love to thank from...get that Austrian name. Can you have a go at saying the name of where it's from? Where it's from? I would also love to thank from Euretsfield in Nidu, Storich. In Austria, possibly not exactly a pronounciate, I would love to thank Thomas Hinterreger. Oh, Thomas in Austria, what an absolute honor. Thomas in Austria, maybe I'm going to kick this one off again. Okay, Flamingo.

Gray. Bill, those are, Flamingo. Grey. Buildoza. Flamingo, Greyboardoza. Because it sounds like that's a type of Flamingo Grey or Dosa. I like it. Yeah. And Austria, I imagine that means even more. Well, it means a lot to Thomas anyway,

because it's gonna be his debut album. The Flamingo Greyboardoza. Can I thank some people to Love it. Please love it so much. I would like to thank from Ralph's hill in Nusah, Wells Levi borrows. I like the name Levi Levi. Levi's cool Thank you Levi and We get we it's Dave starting it again. I do want to take turns. I think we should take turns. All right Matt you started. Okay I can have the name again, please leave I

borrows hedge zone World oh, that's it. That's a that's a it's a it feels like a whole sort of like a world Come on down to head zone world. You can trim a hedge. You can look at a hedge. But you can't defeat the hedge. The one rule of the head zone.

She's insane, man. Yeah. The hedge will always win. What's this, don't know, boy, from a time of me they went to a hedge recently, like a hedge maze in country Victoria, but it was so overgrown. You couldn't, and then there were some bits that were dead.

You couldn't tell what was a walk through and what was just a dead bit. Oh. And then there were lookout zones, and you go up to the lookout, and the tree, they're bushed, grown so much that you could only, you look for one foot, and then there was this more hedge.

That was the lookout zone. Oh, that's nice. Imagine that's hedge zone walls. Yeah, hedge zone walls are bitch shit, but the album is great. Do you know where they were by chance? No, I'm afraid not. Because there's one in Wondilla Gong.

I know I'd be sad to hear that that's run dance. It used to be a beautiful hedge maze. Wondilla Gong. Wondilla Gong. It's a settle summer in country Victoria. I love it. Well, that is in country Victoria. I'll find out.

Let's not make assumptions. I don't want to besmatch the country Victoria. I'll find out. Let's not make assumptions. I don't want to besmatch the good people of one dillagon. Never. I'd also like to thank someone else if I may. Please do. This is fun. Please do.

In dole. I'd like to thank from Saskatoon. Ah! Saskatchewan. Is that... No? No, not related. I feel like that. Saskatoon.

Yeah, that's the name of the... Alright, I love how they get to... They're both of those. They don't have... Is it a one? Is that... No. No, not related. I feel like that. That's not good. Yeah, that's the name of the... Oh, right. I love how they get to... Territory. Both of those.

They don't have states that they have territories. Right. In Canada. Bridget. Ooh. Oh, beautiful name. No, Bridget, I don't know how to say Bridget's last name. Bridget.

Gwanein. Oh, that sounds right. That sounds beautiful. Sorry, Bridget, if that's not right., that sounds right. That sounds beautiful. Sorry, Bridget, if that's not right. But your album is going to be sick. Gwenaing, and I'm giving this off okay. Gwenaing, okay. Ribbit.

Good. Times. Ribbit times. That sounds like an album, John Elmton. Ribbit good times. Is Bridget on the cover of the album in a frog costume? Yeah. No, she's not even in a costume.

It's her head photoshopped on the frog. But like a cute frog on a lily pad. It's called Ribbit good time. Ribbit good time. It's a very sexy album. Sounds nice to me, I like it. I like it too. Maria, Maria.

Thank you, Bridget. Thank you, Bridget. In Saskatoon. Saskatoon. Saskatoon. Saskatoon. Saskatoon. Is that something like that? Is that how they say something? Are you sure?

Yep. Now this is a very, very well travel to not really roundly live to people I should say. Roundly live. I'm trying to say that these people from all over the world this way. This way, because of that Australia. Welledly.

If that Canada, we've had Australia. And now it's time to go to China Woohoo! I'd like to thank from Beijing Steven Bauron Steven Steven Bauron Bauron So you're kicking this one off?

Yep Great Hally Hally Should I say real word? Yeah, if you can find Great, okay Hally. Shall I say a real word? Yeah, if you'd be fine. Great, great. Hally.

Ox. Great, Hally. Hally Ox. That's nice. I quite like that. It's fun to say. Yeah, it's a Christmas album. Absolutely.

Love it. Good for you, Steven. Not enough people do Christmas album. Yeah, it's a good chance to cash in. Thank you. If it takes off. And now it's January, getting in early. Yeah. I love that too. I love a planner, I'm a planner.

Love a plan. All right, from Beijing, all the way over to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Oh, the Buck Country. We're the man from Milwaukee. Hanson. And there is a man from Milwaukee, and I imagine this thing you met Michael Wincler. Michael Wincler is a fantastic name. That is a great name. Michael Wincler

sounds like a like the father in an American movie to me. Yeah Michael Wincler. No I think Michael is the son of Henry. Oh Henry Wincler of course. I imagine there's definitely a relation. Michael's album is called Night. Heart leather. Thought of the fonts. Night heart leather. Night heart leather. How are we going to stop? Heart full stop leather. Yeah. And it is. And he's just yeah, he's all leather. Right. He's like straddling a hog. Yeah. And he's just, yeah, he's all leather. Right? He's like straddling a hog. Yeah.

Yeah. No, no, like a big wild pig. Yeah, that's what I imagined. Wearing the pig's uncle in leather form. Yeah. So what is it again? Night hog. Leather.

No heart. Heart. I mean, they're one and the same. You got your heart, you got your hog. Night heart leather. That's probably my favorite. Yeah, that's good. That works. You got your hog, night, heart, leather. That's probably my favorite. Yeah, that's good. That works.

That works. So thank you to Michael as well. Thank you to Mr. Wincleer. So how do you do that for me? Henry. That is the end of the show. Thanks to everyone that contributes to Patreon every week. It's not just these six superstars.

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So you can watch us as well as listen to us. To be honest, just a single camera thing, but if that interests you, please check it out. Yeah, it's still fun to see. Yeah, we do a bit of stage. We do a bit of movement. And we'll see that our faces move. And we're going to start recording. Spratically, we'll record some of the studio episodes as well to put up on there too. And yeah, if you can give us a review on iTunes or whatnot, that'll be so good. Or if you can't do any of those things,

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and they go, yeah, I got this person listening. Yeah, it's nice. It's, it warms the cockles of my dick. I'll regret that. Can you add it up? It warms the cockles of my heart. My heart. My night heart lane. heart leather. And if this podcast wasn't enough for you, Matt and I also have a spin off shows, also on the do-go-on network, which is within the Planet Broadcasting Network, including primates, Matt, what's the most recent episode about? The most recent one was with Jess Perkins and Peter Jones. That's me! We talked about moglie, with Jess Perkins and Peter Jones. That's me! We talked about Mowgli, sort of like a,

the most recent version of the Jungle Book. Dave, that Jess Perkins that he mentioned. Who's that? Me. Oh, that's just Perkins. That's an amazing coincidence. It's quite a common name, by the way. That was me, Jess Perkins.

Right, as in Jess, okay, Kate Perkins. Kate Perkins. It's a very fun, fun funny episode just was making me lol real hard and yeah we're checking out there's now 26 episodes of that up I think Dave you've been on about that 24 of them I think about eight or so just has been about the same so we're checking out if you're looking for something to do oh there's my show book cheat which I just put out a new episode yesterday also featuring Pete Jones.

Oh. And Peter Patratis, together they are from the Kentucky Fried Chatton podcast. There's also a lot of fun that you should check out. And yeah, we talked about Jules Verne's science fiction classic, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Oh. Under the Sea.

Under the Sea. It was a lot of fun. So you can check that out as well on the podcast app It's better down where it's wetter. Is that a Bernie? Yeah, that does I like a Bernie. Yeah, totally does. We'll put links to those in probably will we we'll put links to those in the Showed yes, we've started looking every week to primates and bookcheats so spread the love spread the podcast make it I started looking every week to primates and bookcheats. So spread the love, spread the podcast, make it, hep, and...

I was gonna say, hip and hack n'n'n. I just said, hep n. It's time to go. Make it, hep n. Thank you so much for listening, and until next week, we will say, happy new year, and goodbye!

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