Elton John – Rocket Man (Piano solo) with sheet music
Excerpt from the book: “Me, Elton John (autobiography)” (also available in the Library)
When the farewell tour was announced, a number of journalists had written pieces suggesting that there was absolutely no way I would really retire. They supported this argument with extensive knowledge of my history and impressive psychological insights into my character: tried to
retire before, addictive personality, born entertainer, music obsessive.
They could have supported it even more strongly by repeating what I’d said at the press conference, which was that I had no intention whatsoever of actually retiring from music, or even live performances. All I said was that I wasn’t going to schlep around the world anymore: one last huge tour – 300 gigs over three years, covering North and South America Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australasia, the kids getting a tutor and coming with us – and that’s that.
It isn’t the end. I was excited by the fact that stopping touring would give me more time to do different things. I want to write more musicals and more film scores. I want to spend time working with the AIDS Foundation, especially in Africa. I want to stand up for the LGBTQ community there, to try and talk to politicians in Uganda or Kenya or Nigeria and do something to change the way people are treated. I want to
collaborate with different artists.
I want to stage a huge exhibition, covering my whole career, maybe even think about opening a permanent museum, so people can see some of my
art and photography collections. I want to spend more time making albums, and to make them in the way I used to at the start of my solo career: get Bernie to spend time writing a lot of lyrics and develop a stockpile of material.
I haven’t gone into the studio with a big hoard of songs to choose from since Madman Across the Water, forty-eight years ago – I’ve just turned up and written on the spot, like the musical version of a painter with a blank canvas.
I want to go back to writing without recording what I’m doing, the same way we made Captain Fantastic, memorizing what I come up with as I go along. I want to play live, but much smaller shows, where I can concentrate on playing different material.
If there’s a problem with writing songs like ‘I’m Still Standing’, or ‘Rocket Man’, or ‘Your Song’ it’s that they become so huge; they develop a life of their own and overwhelm everything else you do. I love those songs to death, but I’ve written other songs I think are as good as them, that exist in their shadow, and I’d like to give those other songs a moment in the spotlight.
But most of all, I want to spend time being … well, normal, or as normal as I can ever hope to be. Less time on the road means more time doing the school run, more Saturday afternoons taking the kids to Pizza Express, or round Daniel’s, the department store in Windsor – things the boys enjoy,
I live and have lived an extraordinary life, and I honestly wouldn’t change it, even the parts I regret, because I’m incredibly happy with how it has turned out. I obviously wish I’d just kept walking when I saw John Reid chopping out coke in the studio, rather than sticking my nose in – in every sense of the phrase – but then, maybe I had to go through all that to
end up where I am now. It’s not where I expected to be at all – married to a man, a father of two, both things that seemed impossible to me not that long ago.
But that’s the other lesson my ridiculous life has taught me. From the moment I was ushered out of a failed audition and handed an envelope of
Bernie’s lyrics as I got to the door, nothing has ever really turned out how I thought it would. My history is full of what ifs, weird little moments that hanged everything.
What if I’d been so upset by failing my audition that I’d dumped Bernie’s envelope in a bin on the way to the station? What if I’d stood firm and not gone to America when Dick James told me I should? What if Watford had beaten West Bromwich Albion that Saturday afternoon in the early nineties and lifted my spirits, so that I didn’t feel the need to call a friend and beg him to bring some gay men to dinner?
What if I hadn’t noticed Lev at the orphanage in Ukraine? Where would I be now? Who would I be now? You can send yourself crazy wondering. But it all happened, and here I am. There’s really no point in asking what if? The only question worth asking is: what’s next?
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Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 111 – J.J. Johnson | Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 111 – J.J. Johnson | |
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Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 12 – Duke Ellington | Jazz Play Along Vol 012 – [Duke Ellington] | |
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Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 28 Jazz Play Along Vol 028 – [Giant Steps] | Jazz Play Along Vol 029 – [Play Duets With Jimmy Raney] Jazz Play Along Vol 028 – [Giant Steps] | |
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Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 45 – Bill Evans – COMPLETE | Jazz Play Along Vol 045 – [Bill Evans] | |
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Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 49 – Sugar | Jazz Play Along Vol 049 – [Sugar] | |
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Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 66 – Billy Strayhorn | Jazz Play Along Vol 066 – [Billy Strayhorn] | |
Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 67 – Tune Up | Jazz Play Along Vol 067 – [Tune Up] | |
Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 68 – Giant Steps | Jazz Play Along Vol 069 – [Bird Goes Latin] | |
Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 69 – Bird Goes Latin | Jazz Play Along Vol 069 – [Bird Goes Latin] | |
Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 70 – Killer Joe | Jazz Play Along Vol 070 – [Killer Joe] | |
Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 71 – East of the Sun | Jazz Play Along Vol 071 – [East Of The Sun] | |
Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 72 – Street of Dreams | Jazz Play Along Vol 072 – [Street of Dreams] | |
Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 73 – Oliver Nelson – Stolen Moments | Jazz Play Along Vol 073 – [Oliver Nelson (Stolen Moments)] | |
Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 74 – Latin Jazz | Jazz Play Along Vol 074 – [Latin Jazz] | |
Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 75 – Countdown To Giant Steps | Jazz Play Along Vol 075 – [Countdown to Giant steps] | |
Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 76 – How To Learn Tunes | Jazz Play Along Vol 076 – [How to Learn Tunes] | |
Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 77 – Paquito D’Rivera | Jazz Play Along Vol 077 – [Paquito D’Rivera] | |
Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 78 – Jazz Holiday Classics | Jazz Play Along Vol 078 – [Jazz Holiday Classics] | |
Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 79 – Avalon | Jazz Play Along Vol 079 – [Avalon] | |
Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 80 – Indiana | Jazz Play Along Vol 080 – [Indiana] | |
Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 81 – Standards And Originals | Jazz Play Along Vol 081 – [Contemporary Standards & Originals] | |
Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 82 – Dexter Gordon | Jazz Play Along Vol 082 – [Dexter Gordon] | |
Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 83 – Brecker Brothers | Jazz Play Along Vol 083 – [Brecker Brothers] | |
Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 84 – Dominant 7th Workout | Jazz Play Along Vol 084 – [Dominant Seventh Workout] | |
Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 85 – Tunes You Thought You Knew | Jazz Play Along Vol 085 – [Tunes You Though You Knew (Reharmonized Standards)] | |
Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 86 – Shoutin Out – Horace Silver Tunes (Book+CD) | Jazz Play Along Vol 086 – Shoutin’ Out – Horace Silver Tunes | |
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Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 89 – Darn That Dream | Jazz Play Along Vol 089 – [Darn That Dream] | |
Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 90 Odd Times | Jazz Play Along Vol 090 – [Odd Times – Odd Time Signature Songs] | |
Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 91-Players Choice | Jazz Play Along Vol 091 – [Player’s Choice] | |
Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 92-Lennie Neihaus | Jazz Play Along Vol 092 – [Lennie Neihaus] | |
Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 93 What’s new | Jazz Play Along Vol 093 – [What’s New] | |
Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 94 Hot Hhouse | Jazz Play Along Vol 094 – [Hot House] | |
Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 95- 500 miles high | Jazz Play Along Vol 095 – [500 Miles High] | |
Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 96-Latin Quarter | Jazz Play Along Vol 096 – [Latin Quarter] | |
Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 97-Standards with strings | Jazz Play Along Vol 097 – [Standards With Strings] | |
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