Elton John/YMMV
- Awesome Music: Funeral for A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding, first track of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Apparently, according to The Other Wiki, it is the kind of music he wants played at his funeral.
- Also, listen to "You're So Static" from the Caribou album. It features the Tower of Power horn section at it's best. Pure. Unadulterated. Awesome.
- And, of course, the soundtrack to The Lion King.
- Crazy Awesome Up to Eleven: His increasing flamboyant stage shows of The Seventies. One show at the Hollywood Bowl in 1973 involved a frilly costume, a long staircase, celebrity impersonators, Linda Lovelace as MC and five differently-colored pianos on stage spelling E-L-T-O-N on their sides. They opened up with doves flying out of each one. Later on, his engineer played organ on "Crocodile Rock" while a live crocodile on a leash roamed the stage.
- Also, his role in Tommy as the Local Lad, the character who sings "Pinball Wizard". There's a really good reason that his role in it is considered to be one of if not the most well-known parts of the whole movie, even though his part is only about five minutes long.
- Not to mention his Donald Duck costume at the free televised Central Park concert in 1980.
- The gigantic Louis XIV costume (especially the wig) he wore for his 50th birthday party also counts. He had to travel in a giant truck for that one.
- Deader Than Disco: His 1979 disco album, Victim Of Love. Also an Old Shame.
- Ear Worm: The chorus of "Levon":
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He was born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas Day, when the New York Times said, "God Is Dead", and the war's begun, Alvin Tostig has a son today |
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- "Rocket Man", "Your Song", "Philadelphia Freedom", "Bennie And The Jets", "Crocodile Rock", "Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)", "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", "I'm Still Standing"...he is a master of the earworm.
- His cover-version of the already earworm-ish "Pinball Wizard". It should be noted that it was (and still is) the only cover-version of a Who song to reach on any Top Ten charts.
- Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory: There are many, many debates over the meaning of "Levon".
- He and Bernie Taupin mocked the trope in the Caribou cut, "Solar Prestige A Gammon". Naturally, that song was also over-analyzed, a la "I Am The Walrus".
- Funny Moments: His oven manual song.
- Glurge: "Candle In The Wind 1997."
- Hype Backlash: He received this to a point in The Seventies and The Eighties, but it really took off in The Nineties with the release of "Candle in the Wind 1997."
- Sequel Displacement: Not many people have heard of Empty Sky, except for Americans (it was released in the US in 1975). His self-titled album is often considered his debut although it was his second album.
- Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped: "American Triangle", about the real-life murder of Matthew Shepard, who was beaten and left to die for being gay.
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