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It was the embodiment of a hard-earned victory. By the turn of 1973, Elton John had been releasing albums for several years, not to mention all the dues he had paid in obscurity as a touring and session musician from the mid-60s onwards. At times, even after his breakthrough across the Atlantic, he had felt like giving up. But finally, his sixth studio album, Don’t Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player, gave him a No.1 album in his own country. Indeed, leaving aside his 1974 greatest hits collection, Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player is still the Elton John album that has spent longer at No.1 in the UK than any other. As the follow-up to Honky Château, it became his second in a row to top the charts in America. With his almost indecently prolific productivity of the day, the new album was released just eight months after its predecessor, in January 1973, and contained two more songs that would soon join his catalogue of major hits. “If Honky Château established Elton John as a leading contender for the bantamweight championship of rock and roll,” enthused Rolling Stone, “Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player should hand him the title.” Listen to Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player right now. The road to Don’t Shoot Me…: “It seems like more of a group now” As the new year dawned, Elton was still in the habit of doing interviews and entertaining journalists at home. NME’s Danny Holloway was invited over for toast and coffee, and a chat about how quickly things had progressed for the artist in the previous year or so, especially with the success of Honky Château. “At that time, I’d done an album with just the band,” he said, referring back to Madman Across The Water. “We were so pissed off and bored that I thought we should either break up or do something new. So I decided to use the band more prominently and add Davey [Johnstone, guitarist]. We didn’t rehearse with him or anything, we just invited him to France with us. It was the first time that everybody chipped in on an album. “It seems like more of a group now that we have four members,” he continued. “There were restrictions as a trio. Our main problem was that the piano was lead instrument, and, of course, it doesn’t sustain notes, like Keith Emerson’s organ does in ELP. But since Davey joined on guitar, it’s been like a piece of cake for me. I can really relax when I play, whereas before we had to all work at filling in the sound. We went as far as we could as a trio and started boring the ass of everybody – including ourselves.” Best Elton John Songs: 20 Essential Tracks By The Rocket Man ‘Elton John Facts: 10 Things We Learned From The ‘Rocketman’ Movie Hear Elton John And Taron Egerton Sing New Song, ‘(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again’ Such a frank assessment was typical of Elton’s high standards, but it was also an acknowledgement of the new momentum around him during the creation of Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player. Named after a remark he made in conversation in Hollywood with Groucho Marx – itself a measure of the fantasy life that Elton was now living – the album cover made reference to that origin with a small poster of the Marx Brothers’ classic movie comedy Go West. The bigger poster next to it, and the title in lights above, made it clear that Elton was now very much his own leading man. Writing and recording sessions After the completion of Honky Château, but before it was even released, John and his band, with Dee Murray and Nigel Olsson newly augmented by Johnstone, headed out on another American tour. This kept them on the road throughout April and into mid-May, and soon afterwards they headed back, with producer Gus Dudgeon, to the Chateau D’Hérouville, the location in which Team Elton had worked so happily on the last album. Once again, the castle proved to be a much-needed bolthole and creative haven in which Bernie Taupin would often write lyrics in his room, bring them down to breakfast and see Elton add melodies with equal mastery, sometimes having them ready to record that same day. A dozen or so songs were composed and committed to tape in this way inside just four days. Key album tracks included ‘Teacher I Need You’, which became an FM radio favourite in the US; the down-home stomper ‘Elderberry Wine’; and ‘Have Mercy On The Criminal’, which Elton revived for his 1987 album Live In Australia With The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. To emphasise the tightness of the core quartet, they played almost everything on the record, with engineer Ken Scott adding the memorable ARP synthesiser to ‘Daniel’ and orchestrator Paul Buckmaster on hand for two more numbers. Release and reception Once Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player was in the can, Elton was back on the bus. A London show at the Shaw Theatre in late August opened a British tour, then another set of North American dates started in September and ran for two months. Even more challengingly, with demand for Elton running almost out of control, he had to interrupt that itinerary to come home for the Royal Variety Performance. He went from San Diego to London, played the prestigious gala and then was back for a show in Oklahoma two nights later. ‘Crocodile Rock’ was the first single released from the album, and was a John-Taupin composition of deliberately lightweight nostalgia. Set in the 50s in the fledgling days of rock’n’roll, it had a serious point to make in observing how times and relationships change (“Suzie went and left us for some foreign guy”), but it remained upbeat, and has continued to earn its place in Elton’s setlist on the 2019 dates of his epic farewell tour. The single reached No.5 in the UK and, in early February 1973, gave Elton the huge thrill of his first US No.1 single. Replacing Stevie Wonder’s ‘Superstition’, ‘Crocodile Rock’ enjoyed a three-week reign at the top, even as its parent album made its own chart debut. Don’t Shoot Me… spent two weeks at No.1 in the US in March, becoming the second in a breathtaking run of six consecutive chart-toppers there for Elton’s studio albums. By 1995, it was triple platinum. At home, it was an even better story. The album spent its first six weeks at the top of the UK charts before giving way to Alice Cooper’s Billion Dollar Babies, and went on to spend 11 weeks in the Top 10 and 29 in the Top 40. Within weeks of ‘Crocodile Rock’, Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player had offered up a second bona fide sales and airplay smash in the form of the touching ballad ‘Daniel’. “I’d seen this article in Time magazine on the Tet Offensive,” Taupin later explained on his website. “And there was a sidebar next to it with a story about how many of the soldiers that were coming back from ’Nam were these simple sort of down-home country guys who were generally embarrassed by both the adulation and, depending on what part of the country you came from, the animosity that they were greeted by. “For the most part, they just wanted to get back to a normal life, but found it hard, what with all the looky loos [nosy people] and the monkeys of war that they carried on their backs. I just took it from there and wrote it from a younger brother’s perspective; made him disabled and wanting to get away. I made it Spain, basically, because it rhymes with plane.” The single peaked at No.2 in the US and No.4 in the UK. Creative independence At the same time, Elton was taking another giant step towards creative independence, as he summoned the media to a railway station to announce plans for his own label, Rocket Records. “I’m appalled by the lack of knowledge of some people who have a lot of power in the music business,” he told NME. “It really frustrates me. “We just want to be a friendly record company,” he went on. “I won’t be with the label because I’m tied up with DJM. But I’d like it to be established by other acts. We’ve got about six cosy little offices in Wardour Street and we want to welcome all new talent.” The wider world, of course, was welcoming Elton’s own talent with open arms. Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player can be bought here. Listen to the best of Elton John on Apple Music and Spotify.
It was the embodiment of a hard-earned victory. By the turn of 1973, Elton John had been releasing albums for several years, not to mention all the dues he had paid in obscurity as a touring and session musician from the mid-60s onwards. At times, even after his breakthrough across the Atlantic, he had felt like giving up. But finally, his sixth studio album, Don’t Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player, gave him a No.1 album in his own country. Indeed, leaving aside his 1974 greatest hits collection, Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player is still the Elton John album that has spent longer at No.1 in the UK than any other. As the follow-up to Honky Château, it became his second in a row to top the charts in America. With his almost indecently prolific productivity of the day, the new album was released just eight months after its predecessor, in January 1973, and contained two more songs that would soon join his catalogue of major hits. “If Honky Château established Elton John as a leading contender for the bantamweight championship of rock and roll,” enthused Rolling Stone, “Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player should hand him the title.” Listen to Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player right now. The road to Don’t Shoot Me…: “It seems like more of a group now” As the new year dawned, Elton was still in the habit of doing interviews and entertaining journalists at home. NME’s Danny Holloway was invited over for toast and coffee, and a chat about how quickly things had progressed for the artist in the previous year or so, especially with the success of Honky Château. “At that time, I’d done an album with just the band,” he said, referring back to Madman Across The Water. “We were so pissed off and bored that I thought we should either break up or do something new. So I decided to use the band more prominently and add Davey [Johnstone, guitarist]. We didn’t rehearse with him or anything, we just invited him to France with us. It was the first time that everybody chipped in on an album. “It seems like more of a group now that we have four members,” he continued. “There were restrictions as a trio. Our main problem was that the piano was lead instrument, and, of course, it doesn’t sustain notes, like Keith Emerson’s organ does in ELP. But since Davey joined on guitar, it’s been like a piece of cake for me. I can really relax when I play, whereas before we had to all work at filling in the sound. We went as far as we could as a trio and started boring the ass of everybody – including ourselves.” Best Elton John Songs: 20 Essential Tracks By The Rocket Man ‘Elton John Facts: 10 Things We Learned From The ‘Rocketman’ Movie Hear Elton John And Taron Egerton Sing New Song, ‘(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again’ Such a frank assessment was typical of Elton’s high standards, but it was also an acknowledgement of the new momentum around him during the creation of Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player. Named after a remark he made in conversation in Hollywood with Groucho Marx – itself a measure of the fantasy life that Elton was now living – the album cover made reference to that origin with a small poster of the Marx Brothers’ classic movie comedy Go West. The bigger poster next to it, and the title in lights above, made it clear that Elton was now very much his own leading man. Writing and recording sessions After the completion of Honky Château, but before it was even released, John and his band, with Dee Murray and Nigel Olsson newly augmented by Johnstone, headed out on another American tour. This kept them on the road throughout April and into mid-May, and soon afterwards they headed back, with producer Gus Dudgeon, to the Chateau D’Hérouville, the location in which Team Elton had worked so happily on the last album. Once again, the castle proved to be a much-needed bolthole and creative haven in which Bernie Taupin would often write lyrics in his room, bring them down to breakfast and see Elton add melodies with equal mastery, sometimes having them ready to record that same day. A dozen or so songs were composed and committed to tape in this way inside just four days. Key album tracks included ‘Teacher I Need You’, which became an FM radio favourite in the US; the down-home stomper ‘Elderberry Wine’; and ‘Have Mercy On The Criminal’, which Elton revived for his 1987 album Live In Australia With The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. To emphasise the tightness of the core quartet, they played almost everything on the record, with engineer Ken Scott adding the memorable ARP synthesiser to ‘Daniel’ and orchestrator Paul Buckmaster on hand for two more numbers. Release and reception Once Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player was in the can, Elton was back on the bus. A London show at the Shaw Theatre in late August opened a British tour, then another set of North American dates started in September and ran for two months. Even more challengingly, with demand for Elton running almost out of control, he had to interrupt that itinerary to come home for the Royal Variety Performance. He went from San Diego to London, played the prestigious gala and then was back for a show in Oklahoma two nights later. ‘Crocodile Rock’ was the first single released from the album, and was a John-Taupin composition of deliberately lightweight nostalgia. Set in the 50s in the fledgling days of rock’n’roll, it had a serious point to make in observing how times and relationships change (“Suzie went and left us for some foreign guy”), but it remained upbeat, and has continued to earn its place in Elton’s setlist on the 2019 dates of his epic farewell tour. The single reached No.5 in the UK and, in early February 1973, gave Elton the huge thrill of his first US No.1 single. Replacing Stevie Wonder’s ‘Superstition’, ‘Crocodile Rock’ enjoyed a three-week reign at the top, even as its parent album made its own chart debut. Don’t Shoot Me… spent two weeks at No.1 in the US in March, becoming the second in a breathtaking run of six consecutive chart-toppers there for Elton’s studio albums. By 1995, it was triple platinum. At home, it was an even better story. The album spent its first six weeks at the top of the UK charts before giving way to Alice Cooper’s Billion Dollar Babies, and went on to spend 11 weeks in the Top 10 and 29 in the Top 40. Within weeks of ‘Crocodile Rock’, Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player had offered up a second bona fide sales and airplay smash in the form of the touching ballad ‘Daniel’. “I’d seen this article in Time magazine on the Tet Offensive,” Taupin later explained on his website. “And there was a sidebar next to it with a story about how many of the soldiers that were coming back from ’Nam were these simple sort of down-home country guys who were generally embarrassed by both the adulation and, depending on what part of the country you came from, the animosity that they were greeted by. “For the most part, they just wanted to get back to a normal life, but found it hard, what with all the looky loos [nosy people] and the monkeys of war that they carried on their backs. I just took it from there and wrote it from a younger brother’s perspective; made him disabled and wanting to get away. I made it Spain, basically, because it rhymes with plane.” The single peaked at No.2 in the US and No.4 in the UK. Creative independence At the same time, Elton was taking another giant step towards creative independence, as he summoned the media to a railway station to announce plans for his own label, Rocket Records. “I’m appalled by the lack of knowledge of some people who have a lot of power in the music business,” he told NME. “It really frustrates me. “We just want to be a friendly record company,” he went on. “I won’t be with the label because I’m tied up with DJM. But I’d like it to be established by other acts. We’ve got about six cosy little offices in Wardour Street and we want to welcome all new talent.” The wider world, of course, was welcoming Elton’s own talent with open arms. Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player can be bought here. Listen to the best of Elton John on Apple Music and Spotify.
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The PiL frontman will discuss ‘The Public Image Is Rotten’ alongside director Tabbert Fiiller and manager/producer John 'Rambo' Stevens
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uDiscover Music Logo
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The Clash

When it comes to exuding timeless rock’n’roll cool, few bands will ever match The Clash. Fiery, politicised and utterly mandatory, the West London quartet were often dubbed 'The Only Band...
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Search and Destroy rare punk singles Featured image web optimised 1000
Features3 weeks ago

Search And Destroy: 11 Rare Singles From Great Lost Punks

To celebrate punk’s singularly DIY spirit, we present 11 unsung rare punk singles from short-lived bands who stuck it to the man in style.
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Reggae

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Skip Marley Shares New Single ‘No Love’

The chart-topping Reggae artist sings about the ‘Dangerous game’ that happens when an old flame returns.
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Watch Episode Four Of Bob Marley’s ‘Legacy’ Documentary Series, ‘Rhythm Of The Game’

The latest episode explores the star's well known love of soccer and his longstanding connection between the game and his music.
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Bob Marley Legend
Features1 week ago

‘Legend’: The Compilation That Captures The Very Essence Of Bob Marley

The 1984 release became one of the all-time bestselling compilations around the world by any artist. 
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Best Bob Marley songs
Features3 weeks ago

Best Bob Marley Songs: 20 Essential Legend-Defining Tracks

Ranging from spiritual ballads to political statements and declarations of love, the best Bob Marley songs spread the message of a true musical legend.
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Rock

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Hear Carlos Santana And Cindy Blackman Santana’s ‘Imagine’ Cover

Proceeds from the single will support WhyHunger’s Rapid Response Fund to fight hunger, amid the COVID-19 crisis.
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Listen To Roy Thomas Baker’s Rare Mix Of Frank Zappa’s ‘Sharleena’

The track is set to appear on the hotly-anticipated 4CD set of ‘The Mothers 1970’
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james gang walk away
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The Cleveland rock heroes made the singles scene with a track from 'Thirds.'
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Im In You Peter Frampton album
Features1 day ago

‘I’m In You’: Peter Frampton Comes Alive Again With 1977 Follow-Up

Remembering the English singer-writer-guitarist's 1977 follow-up to 'Frampton Comes Alive!'.
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Rock n Roll

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Billy Fury Maybe Tomorrow Margo
Features1 day ago

‘Margo’: Billy Fury’s Next Step To Stardom

He wasn't an instant top UK ten artist, but this 1959 single was an important step on that road.
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Little-Richard-Specialty-Archive
News3 days ago

Little Richard To Be Honoured With Statue In Childhood Georgia Home

Organisers hope the statue will be erected in time for Richard's birth date of 5 December.
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Little Richard Specialty Records promo
News1 week ago

Little Richard Laid To Rest At Oakwood University In Alabama

The service took place at Richard's alma mater, Oakwood University in Huntsville.
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News2 weeks ago

Authorized Buddy Holly Biopic, ‘Clear Lake’, In Development

Bruce Beresford, of 'Driving Miss Daisy' fame, will be directing the new film.
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Soul

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Watch Paul Stanley’s Soul Station Perform A Sweet Rendition Of ‘Ooo Baby Baby’

The KISS co-founder’s group offered stunning four-part harmonies in their remote performance of the Smokey Robinson classic.
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Gladys Knight And The Pips 1000
Features1 day ago

Licence To Thrill: The Glorious Voice Of Gladys Knight

Selections from the songbook of one of soul music's great vocal stylists.
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Celeste-Single-See-The-Change
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Listen To Celeste’s New Single, ‘I Can See The Change’

Produced by Finneas, ‘I Can See The Change’ is a song "about finding hope in the wake of adversity and realising that a brighter future lies ahead."
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Bobby Womack The Poet II
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Watch New Lyric Video For Patti LaBelle & Bobby Womack Soul Gem

The clip is the latest in ABKCO's ongoing E Single Video series, and its appearance marked LaBelle's 76th birthday on 24 May.
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Soundtracks

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Watch ‘Rocketman’ With Elton John On Amazon Prime Video

Fans will be able to not only watch 'Rocketman' tonight, but also read Elton John’s own thoughts and insights as the film plays.
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Watch The Trailer For Quibi’s New Musical Comedy, ‘Royalties’

Republic Records are set to release the soundtrack to the new series was created by Emmy & Golden Globe Award-winning actor and songwriter Darren Criss.
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Queen Flash Gordon DVD Box Set
News2 weeks ago

‘Flash Gordon’ 40th Anniversary Movie Release To Include Queen Soundtrack

The legendary 1980 film adaptation directed by Mike Hodges was based on the comic strip of the same name created by Alex Raymond.
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Best Music Biopics featured image web optimised 1000
Features3 weeks ago

Best Music Biopics: 30 Essential Films For Music Fans

As the Queen biopic ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ proved, the best music biopics can have a cultural impact that goes far beyond devoted fans. Here are 30 must-sees.
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