Rocket Man

I'm still alive.

Have you ever heard William Shatner sing Rocket Man back in the day? Yes.

That's fucking phenomenal.

I don't know if

it was Rocket Man.

Rocket

Man.

Man.

He was in the store.

And he was humming the song Rocket Man by Elton John.

Okay.

Because we're calling from the International Space Station.

Because I'm a

rocket man.

Lucy in the sky with diamonds.

And there's no one

Hey, can I give another example of that's an Elton John example? Sure.

So there's a song he's out there, and I think everyone's probably heard it called Rocket Man.

Rocket Man.

And there's a

line in there that says, Rocket Man burning out his fuse up here alone.

Ear alone? Here, here.

Rocket Man burning out his fuse up.

Ear alone.

Oh, no.

I mean, I bet you knew a few of the words, right? Tiny Dancer, Benny and the Jets, Rocket Man.

All those songs sung and performed by Elton John, but the lyrics were written by someone else.

Actually, the same someone else, Bernie Taupin.

When did you do that?

That's a pub and club show and we've got some amazing musicians and it's songs like Starman and Space Oddity and Rocketman.

All of those iconic hits that have got a reference to space and time.

It's a great show.

That's our kind of little thing that we do together, which is a piano-based duo that we do.

And we call it Vegas to Venus because we lean into the Frank Sinatra style of music.

And then the next minute we're in space, seeing Rocket Man and all of those songs.

So how do you find your Instagram?

One, two, three.

Rocket Man.

War Pigs.

[laughs] Rocket Man.

I'm a Rocket Man.

Every jersey that gets thrown on the ice, it's gonna get donated to a, a friend at the Boys & Girls Club in Ottawa, so.

Just to get to where you are.

One, two, three.

think? I saw a really interesting thing.

Speaking of that song, Rocket Man, because it's not written by Elton John, it's written by his writing partner, who wrote a lot of the songs.

But he was saying when he came up with the first opening couple of lines, he was just driving to his parents' house, and he was like... way back in the day and he was like these opening lines they're great he's like but I've got nothing to write down on no phones no nothing so just constantly for the next whatever however long the car trip was he just repeated it over and over and over so he wouldn't forget so he wouldn't forget got strange experiences like no time to talk and had to like write that down write opening lines out he goes this is going to be a song and he sat on it for a while but it became the opening couple of lines for Rocketman so yeah You don't even think

about how easy it is now.

I know, you just do it in your notes.