![]() Across its 74 tracks over 10 sides of vinyl, the massive hits sit alongside enduring classics from each year. The boxset is a musical time capsule of the decade that saw so many different genres find chart success. This new series starts with ‘NOW Presents… The 1970s’, the first-ever NOW vinyl boxset featuring 5 LPs uniquely designed to reflect the era. Learn more at Patreon.NOW Music is delighted to introduce our new sub-brand ‘NOW Presents…’. There are a bunch of exclusive perks only for patrons: playlists, newsletters, downloads, discussions, polls - hell, tell us what song you would like to hear covered and we will make it happen. Pages: 1 2 3 4 Cover Me is now on Patreon! If you love cover songs, we hope you will consider supporting us there with a small monthly subscription. At the rate he earns tributes, it won’t be long before the next batch lands. So this month we count down the thirty best Elton John covers ever.īest so far, at least. ![]() Though artists inevitably gravitate towards the huge hits, John’s songbook boasts a long tail, with even some relative deep cuts generating classic covers. Hell, Three Dog Night released their cover of that second album’s “Your Song” a month before John’s original even came out. From his second, self-titled album onward (no one covers songs off his 1969 debut), Elton’s songs have been covered constantly. For Elton, the Rocketman biopic is just the latest tribute in a career full of them.Īnd nowhere has tribute been paid more often than in the world of cover songs. The farewell tour he launched last year will take him through 2020, and 2018 also saw two tribute albums featuring megawatt performers: from Lady Gaga to Ed Sheeran on the pop one, Miranda Lambert to Willie Nelson on the country one. ![]() He never left (after all, it’s hard to look away from clothes that sparkly). Unlike Queen, though, Elton John didn’t really need a mega-blockbuster to return to the public eye. ![]() Again, somewhat worse it’s done fine, but does not seem to be the smash Bohemian Rhapsody was. Also – and hopefully this is unrelated – it has fared worse at the box office. Compared to the Queen movie, critics like Rocketman better (somewhat), fact-checkers call it more accurate (somewhat), and LGBT advocates praise it for more honestly addressing the star’s sexuality (somewhat). The first big film to to emerge in the post- Bohemian Rhapsody biopic boom is Rocketman. ![]()
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