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Elton John - Song For Guy

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TOTP 1978.

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  • Guy Burchett was a messenger for Elton's label, Rocket Records. According to reviewer Claude Bernadin, Elton wrote and recorded this piece on the afternoon of Sunday, August 18, 1978. He had felt it was a song about death, and only learned the next day that Guy had been killed that very afternoon in a motorcycle accident.

    Although it has words - "Life... Isn't ever-y-thing" - this Elton John composition can rightly be classed as an instrumental.

  • Alex, my best mate, last song we heard together, as he left the pub on his bike, he was hit by a bus...this is for you mate....always missed

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  • @Hendruc

    If not it can be classed as the longest intro to a song ever.

    I;m not being pedantic,But the 18th of August 1978, fell on a Friday,The reason I say is that it was 7 Days before My 18th birthday,What a Weekend that was.

    Nowadays I celebrate My birthday;s with much more sobriety!

  • Always loved this. I always seem to listen to it round Christmas time, don't know why

  • @mikado54mark

    It's clear you think this is amusing. One would wonder why. Ask your Mom and Dad. They created your miserable self. 

  • Perhaps the lyrics were "Life, is a temporary thing". Perhaps Claude, since there, can clarify the lyrics. G'head. The music is wonderful; all you guys so "tight" with Elton, do tell. Whatever the end lyrics are are Elton's, and seriously, girls, get over yourselves. Many interpretations of few lyrics; and seriously, nothing has a thing to do with you.

  • A wonderful masterpiece and my a time favourite_Jacques(Swaziland)

  • the intro always remind me of Suede's saturday night

  • What a beautiful tune. I love the simplicity of it. Upper chordal dominant 8th, dominant 5th and ...... I play this on guitar the same way, and I can't work it out 100%!! Elton has a particular formula. He is a musical and vocal genius. My wife and I named our Chihuahua after him.

  • Beautiful song. Beautiful music. I've always enjoyed his music.

  • Le piano est le plus bel instrument de musique.

    Surtout avec d'excellentes musiques comme Song for Guy.

    :-)

    Chantal

    (lepianoarcenciel)

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