Elton John

I've just had a mini stroke.

No, Elton John and David Furnish and their sons were sitting in the box with Donatella Versace and I was in the dress circle.

So I spent a lot of the time watching them.

Crazy,

And when you talk about the great lyricists, I mean, he's up there with the best of them.

Elton John and Bernie Taupin, Leonard McCartney, of course, Bacharach and David, you know, King and Goffin, Holland, Dozier, Holland.

There's so many of them.

But just think about the songs he's written, the words for.

In the 1960s, he becomes a Grammy-nominated artist.

He gave Elton John his start in music, his professional start.

Elton John has told me the story.

He said they went to audition for Wilson Pickett in Europe.

Wilson Pickett passed on them.

Name that tune.

Oh, I'm Still Standing, Elton John.

Nope.

You got the tune.

Pigs' arse! That's true.

Alan Howe sent me yesterday the article, the interview with Bernie Taupin in the Times of London in which he said of a particular stage of his relationship with Elton John that they were all over the place.

Benny and the Jets.

And he goes, Benny and the Jets.

And I know that at some performances of 9 to 5, I think in the US, someone came on stage first to announce her death.

So when he came on stage and I was like, is this part of the show? Or is he about to tell us of a celebrity death? I was like, what? Has someone checked? Is Elton John okay? Because he came on.

What's going on? He just seemed really natural, didn't he? No,

yeah.

I mean, the list is the list is so long.

I mean, just to name a few, you've got like Elton John, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Bob Seger, Stevie Wonder, Alice Cooper, Kiss, The Guess Who, Gordon Lightfoot, Steppenwolf.

Wow.

So like these are these are artists that would that would stop by and talk on air.

Name that tune.

Oh, I'm Still Standing, Elton John.

Nope.

You got the tune.