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Elton John – Someone Saved My Life Tonight (6:45)

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“Someone Saved My Life Tonight” is an Elton John song from his album Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy. It concludes side one in the album’s telling of the history of John’s and lyricist Bernie Taupin’s struggles to find careers within the music industry. When released as the album’s only single in 1975, it reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and entered the top 25 on the UK Singles Chart.

Taupin’s lyric refers to a time in 1969, before John was a popular musician, when John was considering marriage to his girlfriend, Linda Woodrow. John and Woodrow were sharing a flat with Taupin on Furlong Road in the East End of London, hence the opening line. While having serious doubts about the looming marriage, John contemplated suicide. He took refuge in his friends, especially Long John Baldry, who convinced John to abandon his plans to marry in order to salvage and maintain his musical career. As a sign of his respect and gratitude for Baldry, Taupin wrote him into the song as the “someone” in the title and as the “Sugar Bear” mentioned in the lyrics.
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  • pacificdust

    The coda playing full volume on the Pacific Coast Highway... life can't get much better.

    last month

  • demo1960

    One of the industry's best, especially with Bernie. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Caribou, Capt. Fantastic, etc, etc.,

    last month

  • linkntinks

    your a butterfly, and butterflys are free to fly, fly away,,, high awayyyyyy bye,bye.....

    March 2012

  • linkntinks

    just one more pill, and i don't hear you anymore....we've all been crazy lately, my friends downstairs rollen round the basement floor... someone saved my life tonight!

    March 2012

  • linkntinks

    eastern lights, id like to see those one day....

    March 2012

  • Rockinfreddy

    Ich will den Rocket Man!

    March 2012

  • Akayz7

    OOOOWEEEEOOOOHOOOOOOooOO

    February 2012

  • r-iman

    i love playing this song on my drums verytime you play it out at a bar very one just starts sing along it is a lot of fun.

    February 2012

  • olivegreen85

    "Just a porno played by a dominating queen." ... Yep. I like my version better.

    November 2011

  • VincentVanGogh

    how does it only have 320k scrobbles from 100k users? what is wrong with people?!?!

    October 2011

  • Crystal_Flower

    Dark Tower [10]

    September 2011

  • adammichel

    one of the best he ever did

    September 2011

  • frode1974

    A faboulous song. Pure pop magic!

    August 2011

  • Jiilliian

    Most amazing <3333333333 xoxoxox

    July 2011

  • Stocktontova

    Thi is a great song

    July 2011

  • H0USE-MD

    Dark Tower [9]. Callahan saved, Callahan saved, Callahan saved my life tonight ♫

    June 2011

  • KommisarK

    It's 4 o'clock in the morning DAMMIT!

    May 2011

  • arielitristao

    Dark Tower [8]

    April 2011

  • FICTON1

    just super .... *,*

    March 2011

  • DeadDeserted

    This song gets its hooks in me every time.

    March 2011
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