Word: elton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exactly a match made in heaven. Still, when the pair broke up shortly before the wedding day, Elton was benefit. "I tried to commit suicide. It was a very Woody Allen type suicide. I turned on the gas and left all the windows open." He has remained "wary of up-front women getting to know me." There have been very few women in the Elton entourage since...
...only other recent troubles have also been matters of mistaken identity. In the early '70s the youthful population, still politicized and ever on the alert for potential messiahs, passed the word that Elton was the new "heavy"-sort of a Bob Dylan with sequins. Encouraged by pop's desperately sober critical establishment, they began combing his works for "messages." Worse, they were pretty sure they found some. The King Must Die was obviously about the Memphis assassination, while Honky Chateau was clearly a code word for the White House, Madman Across the Water a musical portrait of Richard...
...flurries, he has become increasingly relaxed about his success. He took it in stride when critics said he had sold out, edging in toward the musical center line they so deplore -as if there were something deplorable about pop music's actually being popular. They also observed that Elton was derivative-at one moment of the Rolling Stones, at another of Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, whomever. In fact, everyone in pop is influenced by others at one time or another. How can it be otherwise in a tight little world where the assimilation of newer, farther-out musical ideas...
...Jimmy Connors. In England he lives in the affluent suburb of Virginia Water. His house is a lively jumble. The huge boots he wore as the Pinball Wizard in the movie Tommy stand near a Picasso. Two stuffed leopards are a leap away from three Rembrandt etchings. Says Elton: "All I really crave now is an original Toulouse-Lautrec or a Hieronymus Bosch...
Pretty standard stuff for the man who stands near the head of the richest class of entertainers the world has ever known. But there are some things that are different about Elton John. For one thing, he will not join the exodus of rock stars who are leaving Britain to escape stiff new tax laws. "I can't imagine going to live in Geneva," he says. "There is nothing there but people who've gone to Geneva." He would rather spend time worrying about his new record label, Rocket, which gives its artists much larger than standard royalties...