It was late afternoon, and I was sat at the dining room table, battling with my homework.   As ever, I gave up and started to watch the birds in the front garden, wishing I could be like them, free to fly away, not stuck indoors, learning things I had no interest in..

Suddenly, from my little transistor, which was sat next to me, on the windowsill....a piano started up, and my head began to spin!

I turned the sound up as high it would go...and his voice kicked in...

"It's a little bit funny, this feeling inside..."
"If I was a sculptor, but then again, no. Or a man who makes potions in a travelling show..."

And my homework faded right away, as images of love began to fill my head...of a man so desperately in love with this woman, writing her this wonderful song...singing it to her as gentle tears trickled down....

And as Elton 'sat on the roof and kicked off the moss' I sat there knowing that I was hearing something very special....

It was the first time that particular Radio 1 DJ had played his song....and I was hooked from that moment on....



I could have gone to the same school as Elton, Pinner Grammar (yes, I DID pass my 11+) but wanted to be with my brother, so ended up in the local equivalent of Fenn Street. Ho hum... :0)


Jesus loved people, that's all that matters. I don't care if folks are gay or not, so long as folks are loved.

I guess Jesus may well feel the same..

Your Song



And that saddest song I ever heard him sing was his own...when he sang it at Princess Diana's funeral, don't know how he got through that one, especially after having lost her so soon after another of his best friends...but he managed it, for her.

Goodbye England's Rose