Song For Guy - Elton John 7" 45

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After while it became apparent that Gianni thought it was wonderfully brave because he'd misheard the title and was under the impression I'd called it 'Song for A Gay'."

This was the first time Elton had got this far without a mistake. If the extremely unthinkable happened and I ran out of tape before he finished my life wouldn’t be worth living. Years later when I met Gianni Versace told me it was his favourite song of mine. He kept saying how wonderfully brave he thought it was.Stuart Epps | Music Producer". www.stuartepps.co.uk. Archived from the original on 13 September 2010. Elton was now four minutes in and still playing verse after verse with middle bits and all sort," he said. a b "Kent Music Report No 288 – 31 December 1979 > National Top 100 Singles for 1979". Kent Music Report . Retrieved 10 January 2023– via Imgur.com.

Offiziellecharts.de – Elton John – Song for Guy" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved 21 November 2021. Tim Scott from East YorkshireI'm not surprised that many comments on Song for Guy seem to avoid the clear and obvious sense of the lyric. Falsely terming it an 'instrumental' is one evasion. By 'Life isn't everything', EJ opines that staying alive isn't an absolute imperative. There are states of physical and mental illness which can make life unbearable and lead to a decision to end it. Personally, I think Song for Guy one of the most beautiful and mature of songs. It is EJ confronting his own mortality, and the universal truth of mortality. I admire his courage in writing and performing.The take-up reel was looking like it only had a few feet left on it and Elton wasn't showing any signs of stopping," he said.

John continued to perform this song in various locations. In 1992, Elton played it together with " Your Song" to close some concerts. Peter from Vancouver, BcI always thought the words were “Life....is a temporary thing” I guess because they made so much sense considering the subject matter. Even if the vinyl cover says differently, it is one of many songs by John that I can listen to repeatedly and never tire. Just as it looked like I was dead he played an outro and the last chord. As the last chord died away the tape ran out. Clive and I nearly died anyway from relief." I thought it was a bit over the top! It was certainly different, but I wouldn't have described it as brave.

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Elton continued writing, working with lyricist Gary Osborne instead working on what became Elton’s 12th album A Single Man. Who was Guy? As they got two minutes into another take, Epps realised to his horror that his tape reel was running awfully low, and Elton was still going. Song for Guy was a hit for Elton John in 1978. This largely instrumental song was one of the few successful songs written without Bernie Taupin. The song opens with an octaved solo piano, which is then accompanied by a looped Roland CR-78 drum machine, [2] with occasional shaker and wind chimes alternating; other keyboards are often layered in shortly after, with a bass guitar mainly accompanying this. It is instrumental until the end, in which the words "Life – isn't everything (3x)" are repeated over the primary melody.