Rocket Man

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Written by: John, Bernie Taupin
Produced by: Gus Dudgeon
Released: May '72 on Uni
Charts: 15 weeks
Top spot: No. 6

A perfect song for the age of moonwalks, this star trek was the elegiac tale of an astronaut lost in space, light years from home. Taupin wrote it on the way to visiting his own folks. "I got inside," he said, "and had to rush to write it all down before I'd forgotten it."

Appears on: Honky Chateau (Island)

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