Elton John Chameleon demo

From the CD The Rarities Collection recorded during the Capt. Fantastic sessions

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Music

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• Elton
• John
• Chameleon
• demo

[Greekpeople1]

Of course I gave 5 starts... Only because it is Elton. He deserves 6/5 stars!!!

[RKLuffy88]

A very good demo of a brilliant song from Blue Moves. Elton's voice is exceptionally high here. I prefer the Blue Moves version over this one, but it is still a very good demo.

[chenlung1]

According to an interview with Elton in 1984 (by Paul Gambaccini), it took him 6 months to write this song for the Beach Boys, but they turned it down. When Elton recorded it, they sang on it.

[Rocketman2396]

Nothing but the best ;D

[THESOULbornold]

OMG! wen i look at this albhum cover im wisk to a rehlm that only i

[pudljumper]

@brianxyz thanks brian. yes, i'm sure of it now as i have seen an interview of elton himself saying exactly that. i saw on here but can't find it anymore :/

[brianxyz]

@pudljumper I believe you are correct. I'm sure this song was written well before the rest of Blue Moves as he performed it in 1975 when he performed the entire Captain Fantastic album.

[eltonator]

@waldenhouse In spite of that, couple of the beach boys provided backing vocals for Elton's version :)

[waldenhouse]

Written for the Beach Boys - and Brian Wilson didn't like it ! - If you want to do something and make a good job of it - do it yourself. And that's exactly what EJ did!

[chenlung1]

@jnoble12 Ironically, I like them non-layered :D. Probably like this better than the studio version :).

@RKLuffy88 The uploaded album is running a bit faster, hence the high vocals.

'Blue Moves' is really expensive to buy at the moment (OOP I assume) - it would have been better as a one disc album (as Gus Dudgeon supposedly wanted during production).

[chenlung1]

I like the demo better :).

Would love it in better quality and the full song.