Word: elton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Popping a pop-rock cassette into the tape deck, Elton props his feet next to the television and watches the Bond Street shoppers through the tinted windows of his Rolls-Royce Phantom. "Turn here," he instructs the chauffeur, and as the burnished ark glides to a halt, Elton hikes his high-waisted green slacks and prepares to enter Cartier...
Even closer to him is, of all things, the Watford Football Club, which he and his father used to watch in the old days. Elton is now a director of the club, called the Hornets. They are mediocre at best, but Elton lives and dies with their fortunes. He practices with the club, he bawls out its members in the newspaper when they do especially poorly, gives them the royal box at his concerts to encourage them. He has staged benefit concerts for Watford in order to buy the team the new players it needs. A year ago, he gained...
...like erasing five or six years of my life, and here I am as if nothing had happened." There is something as innocent and touching in that statement as there is in a good pop lyric. Even if, in the frenetic pop world, Elton John is never able fully to establish his ties between present and past, his effort creates another point of contact between artist and audience. Or, as he and Bernie Taupin put it at the end of Captain Fantastic...
While reporting Elton John's Wembley week, TIME Correspondent David De Voss went along with him on a buying spree. Here is his account...
Already a crowd is gathering on the narrow sidewalk. "It's the gold crest on the door," Elton explains. "They think the car belongs to the royal family." He is greeted by the puzzled expressions and fading smiles of people disappointed at seeing a diminutive Hobbit. The bowing doorman and salesmen inside Cartier could not be more pleased. "Good morning, Mr. John," they chime in unison. "Can we help you with some gifts...