How I Almost Met the Late John Lennon
John Mendelsohn, Rock's Backpages, 28 June 2002
LEGEND AND VH1 have it that when Elton John made his Los Angeles debut at the Troubadour in August 1970, he blew everyone away, and all the other pimply hyperboles.
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