![]() ![]() ![]() I was a teen and we didn’t deconstruct music so much. They would run movies - or re-release a movie in a double feature 6 months or a year later. The song had distinct parts and really felt like a barn burner with re-starts … break downs. It existed mostly in his head while they were recording it, and the other members of The Who had no idea how most of the story would end until they finished it. You just had to listen an hour or so because the playlists were repeated with a bit of mixing up. Elton John - Pinball Wizard (Letra e msica para ouvir) - Ever since I was a young boy / Ive played the silver ball / From Soho down to Brighton / I must. Elton John made an appearance as The Pinball Wizard and performed this. I didn’t but the single so I only heard it on radio. Elton John - Pinball Wizard (Letra y cancin para escuchar) - Ever since I was a young boy / Ive played the silver ball / From Soho down to Brighton / I. Elton had a bunch of top 40 pop hits and this was one more cool song in the rotation. So that gave the song a personal feeling. Tommy - Pinball Wizard - The Who/Elton John (1975 Film) - YouTube Music Up next Lyrics Related Bawl Out.In Jesus Name Chozenn 3:36 Bigger Than Anything Bridget Blucher 4:39 Da Flame God. Incredible.Įveryone knew all Elton John member band names. The original recording was released as a single in 1969 and reached No. You just never heard anything like it 2-3 years earlier because music changed so drastically from ‘64 to ‘72. Elton John - Pinball Wizard (YouTube) quote: 'Pinball Wizard' is a song written by Pete Townshend and performed by the English rock band the Who, featured on their 1969 rock opera album Tommy. But Elton was huge glam pop that could groove and rock ! This was new music and it sounded incredible. I remember when it was on AM radio! It was fantastic- I think there was a shirt and long version. 16. I think they also knew that Elton was planning to spend a big part of the summer in Colorado making his next album and that they'd be issuing it before that Christmas (well before, as it turned out - I think only around 5 months separated the releases of Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy and Rock of the Westies, and both became huge sellers).Old guy here. In his honor, we present this special double-play Soundtrack of Pinball Wizard, presented by Sir Elton 'Supple Wrists' John and The Who. Visually this disk may have 385442690263. Tommy - Pinball Wizard - The Who/Elton John (1975 Film) - YouTube Music Up next Lyrics Related Bawl Out. ZU VERKAUFEN The Title is Pinball Wizard. ELTON JOHN - Flipper-Zauberer - gebrauchte Vinyl-Schallplatte 7 - E1142A - EUR 9,79. Either way, the song was all over FM rock radio at the time and drove sales of the soundtrack album probably to a greater degree than the movie did.Įlton's next album, Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, was already in the can, having been recorded the previous summer, so I'm sure they were also thinking ahead to that release and issuing the first (and, as it turned out, only) single from that record and didn't want to saturate the market. Visually this disk may have 385442690263. So it could have been that he didn't want to become known as a "cover guy". ![]() I have no doubt that it would have been a big hit single, but also, remember that Elton had hit #1 just a few months earlier with his cover single of "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds". An argument can also be made that his version of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is a super-sized improvement on The Beatles’ original. I can only assume that the reason that "Pinball Wizard" wasn't pulled off as a single from the Tommy soundtrack was because they didn't want it to compete with "Philadelphia Freedom", which was either on its way to or at #1 around that time. John’s cover of The Who’s Pinball Wizard easily wins out over the original Elton’s piano has never sounded so frenetic, and his tough guy vocals perfectly capture the Local Lad’s wonderment and ire. ![]() At the time, Elton's "Philadelphia Freedom" was high on the charts, having been released as a stand-alone single in February. The Tommy soundtrack album was released in March of 1975. Click to expand.Pretty sure that this isn't correct. ![]()
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