Elton John mentioned he “by no means knew” what impressed his 1972 basic tune “Rocket Man” in a resurfaced clip.
John – throughout a dialogue with longtime collaborator and author Bernie Taupin – mirrored on the hit that ranks amongst Rolling Stone’s “500 Biggest Songs of All Time.”
“It was a fairly straightforward tune to jot down a melody to as a result of it’s a tune about house so it’s fairly a spacious tune,” mentioned John earlier than Taupin spilled the tea about what led as much as the hit.
Taupin defined that the tune was impressed by creator Ray Bradbury’s 1951 ebook “The Illustrated Man” and its story “The Rocket Man.”
″[It] was about how astronauts sooner or later would change into type of an on a regular basis job so I kinda took that concept and ran with it,” Taupin defined.
“Are you aware, I by no means knew that,” John replied.
“Rocket Man” ultimately served because the inspiration for the title of “Rocketman,” the 2019 musical about John.
The beginning of the hit tune’s refrain was additionally recycled in John’s collaboration with Dua Lipa “Chilly Coronary heart (Pnau Remix)” in 2021.