Elton John: Starship Trouper
Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 15 September 1973
THE DAY Starship One landed in Hollywood it effused a trace of the old redolence and affaced just a little of the Hollywood myth. The Rocket Man and his crew, having preempted a slice of the spectacular by hiring Ward Sylvester's Starship, were back in Los Angeles.
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