BBC - The Making of Elton John Part 1

[@claudial.gonzalez4268]

What a great headmaster Mr. Smith, recognizing Elton’s TALENT and PASSION for music, gave him his blessing and wished him well. Service of love for Elton❤❤❤

[@chrisj197438]

What I like the most is all the good things Elton John has done with his fame. He has raised more money and done more good for charities around the world than probably any other musician.

[@dosenwurst101]

There are no words wich can describe how much I love this man. For creating the soundtrack of my life, for being such a wonnderful human, for simply everything.

[@standingelton6375]

Robin, I've been a fan for 48 yrs. & counting! I always will love Elton & his music & all of his Humanitarian work he does. He's Beautiful inside & outside! My 🚀 man! ❤

[@NYCgirl927]

First Elton concert November 20, 1970 at the Fillmore East with Leon Russell and McHendry Springs. He was outrageous and amazing. At the time I was only familiar with a few Elton songs and they were ballads. Elton came out and blew the roof off the place. A total rock show.

[@laminage]

NYC girl A true legend

[@chrisirving8712]

NYC girl Hi SSD V. % Carry on

[@TheHarlequin116]

My first elton concert will be next month. Nov 13th 2019

[@laminage]

You don't say. Aretha Franklin also performed there in 1970. I had no idea how much of a legacy San Francisco had in terms of an LGBT History.

[@jtmichaelson]

I've always felt that "I've Seen That Movie Too" was one of the most underrated song. I've always been fond of "Tower Or Babel", "Bitter Fingers" and "Tell Me When The Whistle Blows" from Cap't Fantastic. And yet, I've always loved "Solar Prestige A Gammon" which some people don't understand why. I can't get it out of my head sometimes. So many great songs and his hits don't even scratch the surface of what they've done. ("Teenage Idol", "Hercules"... the list is endless)

[@MJ-oi5wb]

me too. And Grimsby!

[@MJ-oi5wb]

I agree!!!

[@standingelton6375]

@@MJ-oi5wb Oh! I just love "Grimsby" & " Solar Prestige A Gammon" The other day I received a scam call & I pranked the guy; I was saying the words to "Solar, the guy hung up on me. Haha!!! Thank you Elton & Bernie! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@laminage]

Can you imagine what life would have been like if Elton hadn't answered The Advertisement for Singers/Songwriters along with Bernie Taupin or if Andy Taylor of Duran Duran hadn't answered the Ad for Melody Maker.

[@Carolalvarenga]

it was god

[@jjsiegal1]

Amazing fortuitous chance meeting between 2 brilliant men and serendipitous business ppl to match. Some days the stars line up....

[@jeanettegault276]

Sad beginning, but a grand time forever❤

[@jasoncarpp7742]

I love Elton John. I've been listening to Sir Elton John since I was about the 7th grade.

[@eileenryan5881]

I've been listening and loving Elton 47 years now he was great back in the day and he still is great I just love him to bits I'm still standing

[@robertsimpson5136]

The goofy costumes were a distraction...but the MUSIC never QUIT. One of my faves.

[@sharonchaussee2756]

Bless him for all hes done for the world and me.

[@tpowell453]

Elton John was gifted with a voice. Like Brian Wilson, whatever. That was his gift. The rest was icing on the cake. He was born with the ear and voice, and that's the end of it.

[@kathleencollins5531]

He was also a piano prodigy. He can still play the hell out of the piano.

[@DonnaHarrisMusicStudio]

I've never seen this before. Thanks for sharing this!

[@standingelton6375]

Thank God for giving us ELTON & BERNIE!!!

[@Barbara-ld4ug]

Thank you, Love you Elton

[@rickyboby560]

4:54 wow young Reggie looks allot more like old Elton than young Elton

[@jimwright2795]

The Mozart of our time

[@quad1000]

4:00 ...how to "tinkle" the ivories... LMAO

[@AlfieMitchell-sz8mq]

Just a tiny bit

[@DexterHaven]

Most underrated Elton song: "Dirty Little Girl." Also, "Tower of Babel."

[@johnomara6082]

Turn her inside out!

[@eileenryan5881]

Don't forget think I'm going to kill myself and social disease Buzz social disease that's funny that's okay goodbye Yellow Brick Road album but it is funny

[@eileenryan5881]

@@johnomara6082 don't forget someone grab her by the ear

[@chrisbreedy2314]

LOVE dirty little girl- great album

[@GuilhermeSilva-rp2it]

Pain

[@vegavairbob]

Ke was King in the 70s. Captain Fantastic was the peak.

[@mrearlygold]

Are you saying that the King must die?

[@maximusluci8988]

Ah, the days of radio Luxembourg. Cuddled up, constantly tuning that tube radio. No worries, no (a)social media

[@kamakirinoko]

Those days are SO, SO gone. Remembering listening to Dark Side of the Moon after smoking a half a joint of Congo Black (very weak) in the heart of Africa (Kinshasa) back in April, 1973 . . . we had already heard Empty Sky (no one else seemed to have) and Tumbleweed and the explosion of the best music the world has ever known was yet to come during the rest of the 70s, but yeah . . . "Those days are gone forever, over a long time ago . . . oh yeah."* *Steely Dan: Pretzel Logic

[@laminage]

The Show that Billy Stewart did was actually from a Dick Clark Show (American Bandstand) called "Where The Action Is". A lot of R & B Singers performed on that Show, most notably in Detroit where Motown Acts performed at the Roostertail.

[@333br]

I'm coming here before it gets all covered with more views and comments!

[@DMWBN3]

Glad I got to see him in 2006., although never really liked his music until 2002.

[@benja54]

[reg and bernie] "Bonking at Reggies mum's house in pinner" Hahaha you can forgive my ears for mishearing this, given the context "bunking..." righhht....

[@nathankennedy4263]

It’s so wrong to call Elton John a pop artists he’s a true rock n roller through and through!

[@nonnamadonna]

I think he's been described a a pop/rock artist because some of his songs are pop & others are rock 'n' roll. Either way, he's the absolute best in the business!! :-))

[@shauncampbell969]

I felt Elton's songs, as a kid. Most were haunting to me, "Daniel",( "The melody got into a dream once" "Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word" ( What'll I do when Lightening, Strikes Me?) ( I played that record, over and over; till I scratched the record. and I think even my mother wondered how I could play the same song so, many times, back to back. "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", again haunting to me, with the melody ( The musical phrasing, I keep saying "It haunted me, but it's very true. the melody; The "beyond life music" ( how could a song, the melody mean so much without me, being able to explain what that musical phrases meant to me. I remember" Benny and The Jets". the melody got into my soul !. It's something beyond life with Elton's songs. I loved classical Music ( The Rites Of Spring, "Water Music" ; and Elton John's, music entered my soul; just as those classical works when I was a child of five. I used to make up ballet steps to classical music; ( As classical music was really the first music that I heard in the house.), Nancy Wilson, WestSide Story, those songs followed second; But when I started listening to my own songs and discovered Elton John in the 1970s. I believe that in heaven before life music has meant very much to me. Surely, when I die, music will be........Well when I die, I will become music. but with Elton's songs it's something otherworldly, it haunts me; It haunts me. the melodies bother me in a good way !. Thanks Shaun of NYC

[@laminage]

Isn't it amazing how so many folks make their Bones in Groups, they go on to Fame & Fortune and their Bandmates are left Behind, Olivia Newton-John, Van Morrison, Luther Vandross (RIP) and Daryl Hall and John Oates can all attest to that fact.

[@wmhhealth2018]

Jimi Hendrix started with Little Richard and the Isley Brothers. Little Richard actually fired him because he was overshadowing him! LOL

[@valerieetter5013]

I won't have a tombstone but if I did part of the lyrics would be comprised of "Harmony". I understood the loneliness in the music and in his voice at the tender age of 15.

[@jamesaccardo9313]

Piano solo on here !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@derekbodenshot510]

13:29 BERNIE PAUPIN?!!

[@FutureAbe]

lol Paupin

[@laminage]

Look at Dick Clark The Host Of American Bandstand. He called Gladys Knight & The Pips Gladys Pips & The Knights

[@isabelle8177]

*B E R N I E F U C K I N G P A U P I N*

[@DonnaHarrisMusicStudio]

However, what his Academy teacher says doesn't seem to make sense when she says he couldn't read music. He had had music lessons before reaching her, so what does she mean?

[@amandalively1]

That school principle did him a solid

[@johnvargo7338]

principal?

[@cimarronhopper4605]

i love elton John but the story involving long jhon boulgery was hilarious lol

[@maddogoz08]

well he looks like he could be related to angus and malcom young

[@brangelospanks2927]

ol' reginald dwight..

[@touche97]

so so selfish to not want his dad. i cannot understand him at all. where does he get life skills from but from his parents. sad ending for mum too. so appreciate celebs. who love their families and show gratitude.

[@standingelton6375]

Eve Northrop, You have it wrong; Elton's father did not want him! Please read Elton's autobiography "ME". Elton tells it all.

[@BurFamily823]

what was the footage at 6:00 from

[@Abbysfaco]

Misleading title

[@jamesaccardo9313]

Hollie Jo Wheeler hun !!!!

[@deborahcorder7792]

8

[@bherber]

Can people please stop saying talent and say skill instead?

[@hazelwalsh3269]

Wonder why Elton Cut all his Old friends off who helped his career! His driver and personal assistant Bob! John Reid his manager... I see his Bizzare change as David Furnish... You don’t cut off people you have known for 30 or more years all of a sudden!!

[@reesemorgan2259]

Didn't Reid rip him off financially? There was some betrayal, as I recall.

[@mikeodonnell3116]

Many of the folks that were cut off got that way because they were bleeding him. Sobriety causes part of it. You can’t keep friends who are still using when you are trying to be sober. Another reason is his husband. David Furnish looked over his books and said, “This isn’t good.” There were reasons.

[@janetphillips2875]

About $20M missing

[@Ingens_Scherz]

From a British perspective, it's slightly annoying that utter geniuses like this one can be a little bit irritating.

[@lynnturman8157]

Love Elton John but as soon as I heard that posh, hoighty-toighty, british narrator? Five seconds in, I'm out...

[@bonzoboots]

Actually, it's a regional English accent, not posh at all. You don't hear "posh" voices on British TV anymore.

[@hazelwalsh3269]

Lynn Turman What are you Talking about?? No posh Voice through this Documentary!!....

[@claresherman2278]

What a bizarre comment.

[@samglover4923]

Jeez, we don’t want you here anyway, please let the door hit you on the way out.

[@LucasSantos-tb7uy]

another cultural apropriator

[@stevemarson277]

most successful solo artist of all time? - um Elvis?

[@mikaelaseabourne4557]

sold less records, made less music! I don't think anyone could claim he was hands down the best, but the length of his career and the work he's put in have meant he has seen a lot more of his potential than someone like elvis (which is sad)

[@gelsondesouzasoares]

Mikaela Seabourne

[@KempReaganMan]

Though I like Elvis he was an act with a great voice. He had little to do with writing music. He was more in the mode of Frank Sinatra who didn't write music but brought his interpretative art to others music. Elton is more in the mode of the modern signer/song writer that sings his or her own music. The change happened with the Beatles and the acts that don't write there own music since the Beatles, are not looked on with much favor these days as they were more the norm before the Beatles.

[@LALFAST]

Carl Bryant The majority of Elton John's songs were written by Bernie Taupin. Elton John composed the melodies, but didn't write lyrics as much.

[@stevemarson277]

granted writing music is not the same as making music. Elvis was a great maker of music - much more than just a singer, he played a mighty mean rhythm guitar which was hugely influential on all who followed and was a great interpreter and creater or original sounds - as well as an awesome singer - even if he didn't pen the lyrics and melody himself. he's still King