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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...
...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...
...Elton, money long ago became as abstract as grain futures. Paintings, jewelry and amusing baubles are what count, but most of his purchases become gifts. His U.S. agent has received a Rolls-Royce, his secretary a $2,300 raccoon coat. His manager got an $80,000 yacht and a $10,000 Faberge clock. Elton sent a Rembrandt etching of The Adoration of the Shepherds to Rod Stewart's 30th birthday party...