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Some top entertainers shy away from the publicity they had so eagerly sought while they were still climbing the ladder. Not so Elton John. Showing Correspondent David DeVoss about the rock star's suburban London home, John's mother gestured to a wall hung with masterpieces. Between a Picasso painting and several Rembrandt etchings was a novelty mirror carrying the slash TIME Man of the Year. Said she: "You can see the story means...
...third and most difficult music cover story for which DeVoss has done the major interviews. "Merle Haggard was as straightforward as his country origins, and Joni Mitchell's life is chronicled in her song lyrics. But Elton John is completely different from his image," explains DeVoss, who during four days in London accompanied the pop star on a round of shopping, dinners and post-midnight gambling, where John never bet less than ?100. Cruising around the city in his Rolls-Royce, Elton would spot people connected with his career and stop to say hello while DeVoss garnered quotes. Among...
...every home town that seems like the end of the world to its moping teen-age inhabitants, Reg Dwight, 28, and ever so much better known as Elton John, has become the repository of a million escapist dreams. He is the symbol of the often battered, never completely shattered juvenile faith that no one is too short, too fat, too awkward or parentally despised to be transformed into someone who is not only famous and rich, but-infinitely more important-loved by the multitudes...
...routine. But no one stays at the top of the pop charts for any length of time without twanging chords that reverberate in the teen-age psyche. What sets Elton apart is the fact that his appeal knows no demographic limits. Said British Rock Promoter Mel Bush, watching a sellout crowd of 75,000 file out of London's Wembley Stadium after John's appearance there a fortnight ago: "Elton's appeal is across the board. We had heads, hippies, film stars, lords and ladies here today." Says the star of the huge audiences he regularly attracts...
...alone, often with several hundred thousand to spare. His latest album, Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, had an advance sale to retailers of 1.4 million copies before anyone outside the recording studios had heard a single bar of this extraordinary autobiography in music by Elton and his faithful lyricist-companion, Bernie Taupin. This week it was in the No. 1 spot on all major U.S. record charts...