Same here. Though I do not approve his life. It is his to lead. However, I will never deny him the credit that he is an amazing song writer of our time. My favorite of all of his songs is “Someone Saved My Life Tonight” As a child listening to the song, it was it was telling me not to give up on life as I couldn’t deal with the things happening around me.
Mr. Elton John, wish you a speedy recovery.
Bernie Taupin and Elton John were an unbeatable songwriting duo in the 70s. Bernie wrote the lyrics to most every Elton John hit we know.
Someone Saved My Life was off the Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy album
The song was about his upcoming wedding, To a woman.
But he decided he was a butterfly and, ya know, butterflies have to be free to fly,
So he shined the wedding on and wrote ‘Please Let Your Son Go Down On Me.’
All these years you have drawn inspiration from Elton’s decision to lead a debauched life as a flaming homo? Don’t feel bad. I thought Jimi Hendrix sang ‘scuse me, while I kiss this guy’.
I had a very hard life as a young teen and that song meant a lot to me one night too.