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"Border Song" is a song by Elton John with music by John and lyrics by Bernie Taupin. [2] The song initially appeared on the 1970 album Elton John, and was released in the spring of 1970 as the LP's first single. After failing to chart in the UK, it was released in North America a few months later.
The song did become a hit in Japan two years later, peaking at the No. 13 on the country's Oricon sales chart, and No. 2 on the international chart. It had been the most commercially successful song for Elton in that country, until the double A-side single " Candle in the Wind 1997 " / " Something About the Way You Look Tonight " topped the ...
Bernie Taupin is an English lyricist, poet, and singer. In his long-term collaboration with Elton John, he has written the lyrics for most of John's songs.Over the years, he has written songs for a variety of other artists, including Alice Cooper, Heart, Melissa Manchester, Starship, Rod Stewart and Richie Sambora.
The song's lyrics compare the shooting of Jesse James by James' outlaw-partner Robert Ford to Taupin's failed marriage to his first wife Maxine Feibelman, of "Tiny Dancer" fame. Since its release, John rarely played the song at his concerts. [ 1 ]
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You know, it took me back to being 12 years old and reading the lyrics to “Captain Fantastic,” and reading “the keyboard player’s haunted, hollow eyes” [in the song “Bitter Fingers ...
There are plenty of artists who have said no by now, including Charlotte Church, Rebecca Ferguson, Ice T, Elton John, the Dixie Chicks, Adam Lambert, and a Bruce Springsteen tribute band.
John also had in release two full studio albums (Elton John and Tumbleweed Connection) and a movie soundtrack when the live LP was issued. Nonetheless, it became the fourth of John's records to simultaneously land in the top 100 of the Billboard 200, making him the first act to do so since The Beatles.