Friday Fun: Bach meets Elton John

I randomly found a very cool thing on Spotify today. The pianist John Bayless is combining Bach and Elton John and improvises around the too. I think it qualifies as good Friday fun :)

Enjoy! Tiny Dancer and Your Song.

Great music videos: Elton John - This Train Don't Stop There Anymore

I have a kind of conflicted relationship with Elton John's music, but he has made some genius songs through the years. One of them is "This Train Don't Stop There Anymore" where he looks back on his career. The real stroke of genius was though to hire Justin Timberlake to play Elton in the video. I think this was the first time I really thought to myself "Oh, that Justin, he's gonna be huge.. Just wait for it! He's soon gonna go off on his own..". I think Justin does an amazing job and really gets the lyrics across so clear... It has brought tears to my eyes many times :) hehe

So here is one clip with behind the scenes interviews of Elton and Justin and then the video itself.



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Great live clips and great lyrics: Elton John -Rocket Man

For years and years I have kind of hated Elton John, but since this song was on that before mentioned commercial I have really fallen in love with it. This is a great live version of Elton in 1976 sans wig or hat. But with big glasses and lovely pianoplaying.



I also have fallen totally in love with the lyrics:
She packed my bags last night pre-flight
Zero hour nine a.m.
And I'm gonna be high as a kite by then
I miss the earth so much I miss my wife
It's lonely out in space
On such a timeless flight

And I think it's gonna be a long long time
Till touch down brings me round again to find
I'm not the man they think I am at home
Oh no no no I'm a rocket man
Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone

Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids
In fact it's cold as hell
And there's no one there to raise them if you did
And all this science I don't understand
It's just my job five days a week
A rocket man, a rocket man

And I think it's gonna be a long long time...

Great commercials: Heroes of the future - Statolihydro

This commercial is one of the most moving I have ever seen. The vocals are just so amazing and the pictures too. The song is a cover, crisp, quiet and beautiful version of Elton John's Rocket Man, before fading over into the original. The movie is about a lot of different kids and how they train to reach their goal or dreams in the future. Impossible to describe, so just watch it. I get tears in my eyes after 3 seconds. Emotional? No, not at all.