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Elton John: They Laughed When He Played The Piano

Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 3 February 1973

FOR MANY MOONS it has been ever-so-chic to take pokes at Elton John. To admit to a considerable admiration for the man and his work would be, among today's arbiters of rock mode, a lapse of taste somewhat equivalent to leaving Black Sabbath albums lying around the floor when your friends drop by.

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