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- The ultimate exploration into Elton’s extensive back catalogue, Elton: Jewel Box covers deep cuts, rarities from the earliest stages of his and Bernie Taupin’s musical journey, B-sides spanning 30 years and songs discussed in his best-selling, critically acclaimed 2019 memoir Me.
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Sep 17, 2020 · The ultimate exploration into Elton’s extensive back catalogue, Elton: Jewel Box covers deep cuts, rarities from the earliest stages of his and Bernie Taupin’s musical journey, B-sides spanning 30 years and songs discussed in his best-selling, critically acclaimed 2019 memoir Me. The 8 CD boxset of buried treasures comes in a beautiful ...
- A 1968 Demo Became The First John/Taupin Cover
- An Early Ballad Exists as An Even Earlier Demo
- Elton and Bernie’s First Co-Write Predated Their Meeting
- His B-Sides Contain Buried Treasure
- Bernie’s Lyrics Sometimes Included Hidden Messages
- Elton Played A Detective Show Theme Before He Was Famous
- An Unsung 1980s Number Captures A Pre-Recovery Elton
- Elton Once Became Lord Choc Ice
- He Can Do A Mean Mystery Voice
- He’S as Crazy About Leon Russell as Ever
Disc four, Rarities Part Two, includes the unusually-titled 1968 demo “When I Was Tealby Abbey.” Tealby is a village in Lincolnshire, the county of Bernie Taupin’s birth; he grew up near the town of Market Rasen, but lived in Tealby’s Beck Hill for a time. Although it doesn’t have an abbey by name, its All Saints Church is a historic building datin...
Elton’s debut album Empty Sky, released in June 1969, wasn’t a success at the time. But for those who listened, it contained definite signposts to his fast-blooming talents as a songsmith and piano player, and to Taupin’s as a lyricist of considerable culture. One of its best-known songs was the ballad “Skyline Pigeon,” featured in Jewel Box in its...
Jewel Box reaches back so far into Elton John and Bernie Taupin’s history, it includes the first song they ever co-wrote – before they’d even met. When Elton auditioned unsuccessfully for Liberty Records in 1967, A&R man Ray Williams sent him home with an envelope of poems composed by another young hopeful who had answered the same music paper adve...
Elton comes from the days when 45rpm, and later CD, singles, were the focal point of any mainstream artist’s profile. With the insane work schedule he always maintained, that meant a lot of singles, and a lot of B-sides. Like many artists in that era, his insatiable creativity and his desire (as a record buyer himself) to give value for money often...
The final disc of Elton: Jewel Box, And This Is Me…, compiles the songs mentioned by name in his 2019 memoir Me. One such is “All The Nasties,” the penultimate track on 1971’s Madman Across The Water. In the book, the superstar notes that his lyric-writing partner was alluding to a certain situation years before it became public. “There are times w...
Another of the delights among the Rarities discs in Elton: Jewel Box recalls the time that, still known as Reg Dwight, he played the piano lead on the Bread and Beer Band’s 1969 version of Charles Williams’ “The Devil’s Gallop.” The melody is otherwise known to a generation of BBC Light Programme listeners as the theme for Dick Barton: Special Agen...
Praised for its sometimes painful honesty, Me pulls no punches in describing Elton’s lows as well as his highs – sometimes, perhaps, at the same time. “I Fall Apart,” the closing track on one of his, shall we say, less celebrated albums, is now included on the And This Is Me… disc that closes Jewel Box. “If you wanted to know how lost I was in the ...
Readers outside the UK may be mystified at the pseudonym that Elton used on disc in 1983. A choc ice is the generic name for a small block of vanilla ice cream covered in chocolate. Many Americans will know it as a Klondike bar, first sold in the US in the 1920s. Anyway, we digress: Lord Choc Ice was the name on the credit for “Choc Ice Goes Mental...
If ever you’re compiling a pop trivia quiz and there’s a “guess the artist” round of mystery voices, there’s an Elton track he chose for Jewel Box that you need to hear. “Stone’s Throw From Hurtin’” originated on 1998’s Sleeping With The Past, produced by Chris Thomas and featuring the star on digital piano, in a voice he may never have used before...
Elton has never stopped loving the music of the man who first turned him on to Americana in all its glory. Leon Russell was an immense influence on the young singer-songwriter, as he and Bernie began their songwriting adventures, and he was famously in the audience at Elton’s career-changing Troubadour shows of August 1970. The admiration was alrea...
Elton: Jewel Box is an eight-disc compilation album by Elton John released in 2020, featuring rare songs from his catalogue including deep cuts, non-album B-sides and 60 previously unreleased songs and demos. [2] [3] John selected the songs for the compilation, [4] which contains a total of 148 songs, organised in four parts: Deep Cuts ...
Nov 2, 2020 · Taupin has spent his time working on the forthcoming eight-disc collection Elton: Jewel Box and writing lyrics for the next Elton John album. He called up Rolling Stone to talk about both...
Oct 30, 2020 · Curated by John and Taupin, the box set features obscure album cuts, B sides, tunes referenced by name in John’s 2019 memoir Me, and pre-fame songs written between 1967 and 1969 when the...
Nov 10, 2020 · "Jewel Box," out Friday, is a sprawling collection of nearly 150 demos, B-sides and deep cuts, 60 of which were previously unreleased. The box set charts John's musical evolution from 1965, as...
Nov 13, 2020 · ‘Elton: Jewel Box’, an in-depth exploration of Elton John’s extensive catalogue including rarities from 1965-1971, lesser-known B-Sides, and deep cuts personally curated by Elton, is out now! Elton: Jewel Box is available now as deluxe 8CD and 9LP box sets, standalone 4LP, 3LP and 2LP breakouts.
