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Elton John

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Fresh Air
Someone Once Told Elton John He Would Never Be A Pop Star

So that night, thank God, the epiphany came that night. And I went home and, you know, dodged the bullet, as it were. But I still didn't have sex for a couple of years, two or three years later.

Fresh Air
Someone Once Told Elton John He Would Never Be A Pop Star

So that night, thank God, the epiphany came that night. And I went home and, you know, dodged the bullet, as it were. But I still didn't have sex for a couple of years, two or three years later.

Fresh Air
Someone Once Told Elton John He Would Never Be A Pop Star

So that night, thank God, the epiphany came that night. And I went home and, you know, dodged the bullet, as it were. But I still didn't have sex for a couple of years, two or three years later.

Fresh Air
Someone Once Told Elton John He Would Never Be A Pop Star

Well, you know, a lot of rock musicians go into rock music to pull girls. That's one of the big attractions. Well, we can play on stage and we can flirt with the girls and then we can go backstage and then we can have them, we can take them home and we can have sex with them. That was never my motive. I was just wanting to play music. Sex wasn't anything I was thinking about.

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Someone Once Told Elton John He Would Never Be A Pop Star

Well, you know, a lot of rock musicians go into rock music to pull girls. That's one of the big attractions. Well, we can play on stage and we can flirt with the girls and then we can go backstage and then we can have them, we can take them home and we can have sex with them. That was never my motive. I was just wanting to play music. Sex wasn't anything I was thinking about.

Fresh Air
Someone Once Told Elton John He Would Never Be A Pop Star

Well, you know, a lot of rock musicians go into rock music to pull girls. That's one of the big attractions. Well, we can play on stage and we can flirt with the girls and then we can go backstage and then we can have them, we can take them home and we can have sex with them. That was never my motive. I was just wanting to play music. Sex wasn't anything I was thinking about.

Fresh Air
Someone Once Told Elton John He Would Never Be A Pop Star

I was just wanting to play music. I was so obsessed with music, nothing entered my head apart from that.

Fresh Air
Someone Once Told Elton John He Would Never Be A Pop Star

I was just wanting to play music. I was so obsessed with music, nothing entered my head apart from that.

Fresh Air
Someone Once Told Elton John He Would Never Be A Pop Star

I was just wanting to play music. I was so obsessed with music, nothing entered my head apart from that.

Fresh Air
Someone Once Told Elton John He Would Never Be A Pop Star

Well, I was getting fed up with Long John Baldy playing to cabaret people who were eating chicken and chips and not caring about the music. And I thought, I didn't become a musician for this. Maybe I'd written a couple of songs for Bluesology that were recorded, and the lyrics were awful, but I wrote the melody. And this audition for Liberty Records was just, I thought...

Fresh Air
Someone Once Told Elton John He Would Never Be A Pop Star

Well, I was getting fed up with Long John Baldy playing to cabaret people who were eating chicken and chips and not caring about the music. And I thought, I didn't become a musician for this. Maybe I'd written a couple of songs for Bluesology that were recorded, and the lyrics were awful, but I wrote the melody. And this audition for Liberty Records was just, I thought...

Fresh Air
Someone Once Told Elton John He Would Never Be A Pop Star

Well, I was getting fed up with Long John Baldy playing to cabaret people who were eating chicken and chips and not caring about the music. And I thought, I didn't become a musician for this. Maybe I'd written a couple of songs for Bluesology that were recorded, and the lyrics were awful, but I wrote the melody. And this audition for Liberty Records was just, I thought...

Fresh Air
Someone Once Told Elton John He Would Never Be A Pop Star

Maybe I can be a songwriter. I had no intentions of being an Elton John superstar or whatever. I just thought maybe I can write music. I went to the audition. I said, I do sing, but I don't sing much. But I can write songs, but I'm a terrible lyricist. And hence, he gave me the envelope, which was, you know, could have been any envelope.

Fresh Air
Someone Once Told Elton John He Would Never Be A Pop Star

Maybe I can be a songwriter. I had no intentions of being an Elton John superstar or whatever. I just thought maybe I can write music. I went to the audition. I said, I do sing, but I don't sing much. But I can write songs, but I'm a terrible lyricist. And hence, he gave me the envelope, which was, you know, could have been any envelope.

Fresh Air
Someone Once Told Elton John He Would Never Be A Pop Star

Maybe I can be a songwriter. I had no intentions of being an Elton John superstar or whatever. I just thought maybe I can write music. I went to the audition. I said, I do sing, but I don't sing much. But I can write songs, but I'm a terrible lyricist. And hence, he gave me the envelope, which was, you know, could have been any envelope.

Fresh Air
Someone Once Told Elton John He Would Never Be A Pop Star

And it was Bernie's lyrics, which I read on the train going home. I didn't have any... ambitions at that time to become someone who made their own records and became a star, I just thought, well, maybe if I leave the band, I can become a songwriter. And that would be fun. And I'm still in the music business. So it was just part of the process of the serendipity that happened to me that...

Fresh Air
Someone Once Told Elton John He Would Never Be A Pop Star

And it was Bernie's lyrics, which I read on the train going home. I didn't have any... ambitions at that time to become someone who made their own records and became a star, I just thought, well, maybe if I leave the band, I can become a songwriter. And that would be fun. And I'm still in the music business. So it was just part of the process of the serendipity that happened to me that...

Fresh Air
Someone Once Told Elton John He Would Never Be A Pop Star

And it was Bernie's lyrics, which I read on the train going home. I didn't have any... ambitions at that time to become someone who made their own records and became a star, I just thought, well, maybe if I leave the band, I can become a songwriter. And that would be fun. And I'm still in the music business. So it was just part of the process of the serendipity that happened to me that...

Fresh Air
Someone Once Told Elton John He Would Never Be A Pop Star

If I hadn't have gone to that meeting, I wouldn't be sitting here talking to you now. And then you look back and think, how did I have the courage to go to that meeting when I was chubby, I had no self-esteem, I was shy, but anything was better than playing to people who were eating chicken and chips while you were playing.

Fresh Air
Someone Once Told Elton John He Would Never Be A Pop Star

If I hadn't have gone to that meeting, I wouldn't be sitting here talking to you now. And then you look back and think, how did I have the courage to go to that meeting when I was chubby, I had no self-esteem, I was shy, but anything was better than playing to people who were eating chicken and chips while you were playing.