The second half of the album featured another extended rocker, “Street Kids,” among a number of lesser-celebrated Elton entries that also included the pensive, midtempo “Hard Luck Story.” That song had previously been recorded by Dee, another Rocket signing. Elton John Songs In The ‘Rocketman’ Film: Everything You Need To Know.
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“I Feel Like A Bullet (In The Gun Of Robert Ford)” was a fine ballad that was generally underrated, but helped the double-A-side to a No.14 peak in the US. “Grow Some Funk Of Your Own” (which had an additional writing credit for Johnstone) was an out-and-out rocker with a humorous Taupin lyric about an amorous tourist being told in no uncertain times where to go by a possessive boyfriend. “Island Girl” was followed by the two songs that formed the only other single from the set, which came from opposite ends of John’s repertoire. The ensuing “Dan Dare (Pilot Of The Future)” had been Elton’s preference as a single instead of “Island Girl.” It featured detail from Johnstone on “voice bag,” the device that found fame as a vocoder the following year on Peter Frampton’s “Show Me The Way.” Soul trio Labelle provided backing vocals. Rock Of The Westies opened, boldly, with a medley featuring three separate song elements, “Yell Help,” “Wednesday Night,”and “Ugly.” Frequent accomplice James Newton Howard played Hohner clavinet, ARP synthesiser and harpsichord, and was much featured elsewhere on electric piano and synthesizer. Johnstone was much in evidence on electric guitar and Kiki Dee sang backing vocals on most of the record. Cooper, now in his percussive pomp, played a suitably extravagant array of instruments throughout, also including cowbell, jawbone, castanets, bell tree, vibraphone, shaker, wind chimes, maracas, and kettle drums. “Island Girl” stayed at the US top spot for three weeks, providing the perfect curtain-raiser for Rock Of The Westies.
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