#Elton john rocket man original version movie

( BBC Radio 1 interview, 14 December 1991) We were quite astounded when they wanted to release it as a single just recently. Probably just after my last telly appearance. It's even more extraordinary (that the song was a hit) because we actually recorded the track over two years ago. I just tried to put the chords together on the piano, and it just seemed to want to take off in the choruses. And the reggae treatment just seemed to happen, really. It's like remaking movies: you've got to try and give it something that makes it worth re-releasing. I do think that if you cover records, you should try and make them different. It was just that I wanted to do it differently. And I hoped it hadn't gone, actually – I hoped no one else was going to do it… I actually haven't heard the original for a very long time. Now, if I had known then that I would have been asked to be involved in this project, I would have just died… They basically said, 'Would we like to be involved?' I could choose which track I wanted… 'Rocket Man' was my favourite. So he was very much my idol, and one of my favourite songs of his was 'Rocket Man'. And when I was just starting to write songs, he was the only songwriter I knew of that played the piano and sang and wrote songs. I was really knocked out to be asked to be involved with this project, because I was such a big fan of Elton's when I was little. When I asked to be involved in this project and was given the choice of a track it was like being asked 'would you like to fulfill a dream? would you like to be Rocket Man?'.

I loved his music, had all his albums and I hoped one day I'd play the piano like him (I still do). Kate about 'Rocket Man'įrom the age of 11, Elton John was my biggest hero.

She appeared with her own band and playing a ukelele, lipsynching the song. Kate performed 'Rocket Man' on the BBC television programme Wogan on 16 December 1991. Alan Murphy, who had died since recording his guitar part on 'Rocket Man', was given a nod by filming a guitar on a chair at some points in the video.

#Elton john rocket man original version movie

Music videoĪ black and white music video was filmed with her band as a simple performance video, with Kate playing a ukulele, apparently as a tribute to Marilyn Monroe in the movie 'Some like it hot'. The poster sleeve of the 7' single in the UK was slightly bigger than the European version. All formats features another Elton John cover, Candle in the wind, with an added instrumental version of that track on the 12' single and CD-single. 'Rocket Man' was released as a 7' single in a poster sleeve, a 12' single in a poster sleeve, a cassette single and a CD-single. it was subsequently released as a single from that album on the Mercury label on 25 November 1991. Kate Bush recorded a cover of the song in 1989 as a track for the album Two Rooms, which was released two years later. Originally released on Elton John's album Honky Château, it was released as a single on 14 April 1972 and became a hit in the UK and the USA, as well as several European countries. However, neither Rocketman itself nor Egerton were able to land Oscar nominations.Song written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin. “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” also was named best song at this year’s Critics’ Choice Awards and Golden Globes. “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” beat out fellow contenders “I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away” from Toy Story 4 “Into the Unknown” from Frozen II “I’m Standing With You” from Breakthrough and “Stand Up” from Harriet - the latter of which, if it had won, would have made Cynthia Erivo the youngest person to ever achieve EGOT status.

But we always come back together for the music.” And one of the things that makes it work is being different. “The basic underlying storyline in the movie is the real thing, even though there’s fantasy elements in it,” Taupin explained backstage. Like John, Taupin is depicted throughout Rocketman, and, according to the lyricist, “what you see in the film is what you get.”