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Elton John's Blue Moves (Paperback)
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Elton John's Blue Moves (Paperback)
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Loot Price R261
Discovery Miles 2 610
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By 1976, Elton John was the best-selling recording artist and the
highest-grossing touring act in the world. With seven #1 albums in
a row and a reputation as a riveting piano-pounding performer, the
former Reggie Dwight had gone with dazzling speed from the London
suburbs to the pinnacles of rock stardom, his songs never leaving
the charts, his sold-out shows packed with adoring fans. Then he
released Blue Moves, and it all came crashing down. Was the
commercially disappointing and poorly reviewed double album to
blame? Can one album shoot down a star? No, argues Matthew Restall;
Blue Moves is a four-sided masterpiece, as fantastic as Captain
Fantastic, as colorful as Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, a showcase for
the three elements--piano-playing troubadour, full orchestra, rock
band--with which Elton John and his collaborators redirected the
evolution of popular music. Instead, both album and career were
derailed by a perfect storm of circumstances: Elton's decisions to
stop touring and start his own label; the turbulent shiftings of
popular culture in the punk era; the minefield of attitudes toward
celebrity and sexuality. The closer we get to Blue Moves, the
better we understand the world into which it was born--and vice
versa. Might that be true of all albums?
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