A couple of months I posted about Elton John, It Feels So Wrong But It Feels So Right. Reggie has never meant much to me, other than providing some wonderful radio-fodder for the 70s and some of the 80s - and putting on a great show at Sydney's Randwick Racecourse almost 35 years ago to the day.
For me, though, the crowning glory has always been the maudlin Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word. I presume the simmering Euro-feel was influenced by Song For Europe by Roxy Music (1973) and to a much lesser extent, Michelle by The Beatles (1965).
I don't have much to say about Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word other than that it's a great lyric, perhaps Bernie Taupin's best and the classical affectations work. Oh yeah - and I'm not trying to be bitchy - but wasn't Elton hairy?
Elton John: Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
I see that Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word was remade with boy-band Blue (with Elton plonking along and probably trying to pull) which unfortunately seems to wrench much of the potential sorrow out of the song via an inappropriate R'n'B groove and some bizarre Stevie Wonder-like harmonica towards the end.
In a way, it's not dissimilar to the Ronan Keating / Cat Stevens - Yusuf Islam version of Father & Son, nice but not really my cup of wombat's tears, if you know what I mean.
BTW one youtube youngster, member YERTY123 reviewed Father & Son by saying:
"the guy with the beard is the better singer than ronan."
Nice!
Ah well, good for them.
In a way, it's not dissimilar to the Ronan Keating / Cat Stevens - Yusuf Islam version of Father & Son, nice but not really my cup of wombat's tears, if you know what I mean.
BTW one youtube youngster, member YERTY123 reviewed Father & Son by saying:
"the guy with the beard is the better singer than ronan."
Nice!
Ah well, good for them.
Andrew Goulding
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