Complete Thom Bell Session

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This article was amended on 23 March 2023. An earlier version said that Thom Bell was born in Philadelphia. In fact, he moved there as a child after being born in Kingston, Jamaica.

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The second half of the Seventies saw Elton wiltin’. Here And There was nowhere, Blue Moves was a double-album downer and, by 1979, Elton seemed a washed-up disco diva. These were lost years, complete with their own lost sessions. Elton John Concert Canceled at the Garden". The New York Times. United Press International. 28 October 1984. At the same time, of course, it's certainly arguable that this methodology is no longer fit for purpose. If a classic song suddenly outdoes its original position from decades earlier via a random burst of streaming thanks to briefly raised visibility (use in an advert, a film, some viral thing, the ubiquity of festive favourites, etc.), causing its unique chart history to get eclipsed or at least 'muddied', do we want that? I also have the 2003 pink 12” in the artwork clear sleeve. It has the 1979 full length version of Are You Ready For Love with Ashley Beedle Mono Re-Edit on the B-Side. In January 2012, John announced that he had named Timberlake as his top choice to play him in the film. Lee Hall was set to pen the screenplay. [7] In March 2013, Michael Gracey was hired to direct, with Tom Hardy cast in October to play John and FilmDistrict (and later Focus Features) acquiring the U.S. distribution rights. [8] Filming was initially planned to start in autumn 2014. [9] [10] However, creative differences between John and Focus, along with budget issues, led him and Furnish to take the project elsewhere. [11]Golden Reel Award Winners". www.mpse.org. Archived from the original on 8 April 2020 . Retrieved 22 January 2020. Ritman, Alex (6 January 2020). " 'Joker' Leads BAFTA 2020 Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 7 January 2020. Leon Huff said that “Thom Bell was my favorite musician, arranger, songwriter and music producer of all time. It was my esteem, honor and pleasure to work with him creatively and as a business partner. Rest in peace.”

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Elton's concert at the Dodger Stadium happened in 1975, one year before the recording of " Don't Go Breaking My Heart", [78] and while Elton met Renate Blauel while she was working as a sound engineer on one of his albums, it was on 1983's Too Low for Zero, not 1979's Victim of Love. He proposed to her on 10 February 1984 in Australia, and they married in Sydney on Valentine's Day of the same year. [90] They officially announced their divorce on 18 November 1988. [91]

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Critics' Choice Awards" (Press release). Critics' Choice Awards. 8 December 2019 . Retrieved 8 December 2019. Elton is shown to have dated a landlady named Arabella, but he actually dated a secretary named Linda Hannon (née Woodrow) for two years, and was engaged to her in 1969. John ended up sinking into a suicidal depression due to stress faced with the prospect of living a domestic life in the suburbs, and attempted to kill himself in his kitchen from inert gas asphyxiation, but failed to do so (leaving the kitchen windows open, and being found by Bernie Taupin). Less than a month before the wedding, John suddenly broke off their engagement on the advice of Long John Baldry. Elton and Taupin ended up writing the song " Someone Saved My Life Tonight" based on the failed engagement and Baldry's advice. [86] [81] Hannon revealed her disappointment for not being mentioned in the film. [87] a b c Friskics-Warren, Bill (December 24, 2022). "Thom Bell, a Force Behind the Philadelphia Soul Sound, Dies at 79". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved December 26, 2022. In March 2019, it was reported that Paramount Pictures was pressuring director Dexter Fletcher and producer Matthew Vaughn to cut a sex scene between Taron Egerton and Richard Madden, so that the film could receive a PG-13 rating in the United States, as influenced by the financial success of Bohemian Rhapsody the year prior. [27] Fletcher denied the reports, saying that the movie "has and always will be the no holds barred, musical fantasy that Paramount and producers passionately support and believe in" and said the allegations were "nothing but rumours". [28] Greene, Andy (22 August 2018). "Nigel Olsson Reflects on 50 Years of Playing Drums for Elton John". Rolling Stone.