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Elton John's Tiny Dancer: a tale of love, failure and resurrection
"That song was like having your really good friends give you the best gift you could ever receive" - the story of Elton John's timeless Tiny Dancer
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There’s an old snatch of video footage from 1970 that is as close to real-time alchemy as you’re ever likely to see. Sat at a white piano, an early-twenties Elton John pulls out a crumpled sheet of paper that looks like a schoolboy’s dashed-off homework and flattens it against the music stand.
The singer had seen Bernie Taupin’s Tiny Dancer lyrics for the first time just days earlier, and when he recites the first verse without accompaniment – ‘Blue jean baby/LA lady/seamstress for the band/pretty-eyed/pirate smile/you’ll marry a music man’ – it seems flat and prosaic.
Then he reaches the catalytic keyword – “As soon as you get to the word ‘ballerina’, you know
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