As Elton said at the time, “I always think of it as Elton John’s disposable album.” He meant that as a compliment – Don’t Shoot Me is pure razzle-dazzle, or as he put it, “a very happy ...

John and Taupin were hired to write music for Lewis Gilbert’s teen love story Friends in late 1970, after Elton John and Tumbleweed Connection had been recorded but before “Your Song ...

To determine Elton John’s top charting albums over his long ... Victim of Love (1979) > Peak position on ... Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Images. 27. Songs from the West Coast (2001) > Peak ...