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...them on the radio, makes Elton John's Greatest Hits Volume II a sad record. It contains little of the spark to be found in his first collection of hits. If Elton's music changed in the first half of this decade from quiet piano-and-voice cuts to glitter-and-guitar tunes, it still had an original fire in it that shows in his first collection, released in 1974. The collection traced Elton's history on the Top 40 from the beautiful "Your Song" through his rise to superstardom and his music's shift toward the loud and outrageous...
Elton John always had a song on the radio in the first half of this decade. He reached adolescents sitting at home with transistor radios and he reached their older siblings on wheels. Although it is fashionable now to sneer at the musician-turned-glitter star, his influence on popular music was once very real. His popularity did not arise in the beginning out of pure hype. Simple songs of affection like "Your Song" and "Daniel" can still move those who are disposed to be moved. If less memorable, cheerful piano boogie numbers like "Honky Cat" and "Crocodile Rock...
...returning those roots. He no longer has any songs on the charts, and word is that he now plays simple music in clubs, scorning the charade of strutting for a mass audience. In fact, Elton the piano player wrote a sort of obituary for Elton the glitter king in "Someone's Final Song," on his last regular album...
Alexandra says she sees two types of people in the theater world, both professional and at Harvard. One group is made up of the people who are "really in it for show biz," she says--"all glitter, very interested in themselves, superficial." The second group--the people she'd like to emulate--see performing as a profession, and remain themselves off stage. Joanne Woodward has impressed her as such an actress, she says; an earthiness combined with depth and intelligence. "Those are the people I admire." She sounds a bit annoyed when she describes the same split in Harvard...
...frenetic Charlestoning, the drugs, the sex and the compulsive travelling of the '20s may have been described at great length in the more reputable words of the time. Nevertheless, today, there persists a nostalgia for the glitter and naivete of the decade before the Great Crash that is soon dispelled after reading some of the entries in Crosby's diary...