On Sat, 17 May 2008 15:23:04 +0200, Andrea Grasso
<agrasso@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Yes, it's right.
>Music written by Elton, Davey Johnstone, Paul Westwood, Fred Mandel,
Charlie Morgan, lyrics by Taupin.
>I thought it was difficult because this credit is not specified in the CD
booklet (being the 1985
>original or the 1998 remastered one)! Neither Eltonography credits the
song as such (although I have
>written to Dave Bodoh to correct it, but I was pretty much ignored)! So I
bet that many Elton fans
>don't actually know it.
>
>You can find the real writers of this song:
>1)on the LP version of Ice on fire, not in the lyrics sheet but on the
label on the vinyl itself;
>2)on the VHS/DVD of The very best, where the videoclip of this song
credits all the writers.
>
I have this song on the original 1985 CD and on the US 1987 Greatest
Hits III, and I think it's listed as John/Taupin on GH III as well. I
read about the true author****p somewhere, either in the Rocket Man
Encyclopedia or Liz Rosenthal's book.
P.
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