Sir Elton John was surprised to learn true inspiration behind his 1970s hit 'Rocket Man'... ECRMusic EltonJohn
Sir Elton John/ InstagramThe pop star released the song in the 1970s and it became his first number one hit to top the charts., the two musicians responded to an advertisement for songwriters.“‘Rocket Man’ was our first-ever Number One record I think – and it was on the ‘Honky Chateau’ record,” Elton said.
“It was a pretty easy song to write a melody to because it’s a song about space so it’s quite a spacious song,” he said.But to his surprise, Taupin had a different interpretation of what inspired the song and the title. “It was actually a song inspired by Ray Bradbury from his book of science-fiction short stories called 'The Illustrated Man',” he said.
“In that book, there was a story called 'The Rocket Man', which was about how astronauts in the future would become sort of an everyday job… so I kinda took that idea and ran with it,” said Taupin.“Do you know, I never knew that,” he said on the video.
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