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The Wild Story Behind “Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting” [Highlight From Episode 353] · Booked On Rock with Eric Senich

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  Speaker 1: Here's a quick highlight from our latest episode of Booked
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  Speaker 1: on Rock. Our guests are Andrea Grasso and Luca Parassi.
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  Speaker 1: They are the authors of the new book titled Elton
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  Speaker 1: john Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. The Making of an Epic album.
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  Speaker 1: The fourth and final side features your Sister Can't Twist
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  Speaker 1: but She Can Rock and Roll. Saturday Night's all Right
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  Speaker 1: for Fighting Roy Rogers, Social Disease and Harmony, which Andrea
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  Speaker 1: mentioned is his favorite deep track. We got to talk
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  Speaker 1: about Saturday Nights all Right for Fighting, and that's just
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  Speaker 1: one of Elton's classics. Talk about Bernie's lyrics here. These
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  Speaker 1: are based on his teenage years, so it's semi autobiographical.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Bernie said, this lady is inspined by when he
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  Speaker 2: was a fifteen year old going to pubs in the
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  Speaker 2: North of England with friends and all the gangs started
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  Speaker 2: drinking too much beer and somebody will satisfy.
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  Speaker 1: The guitar work from Davy Johnstone is very important on
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  Speaker 1: this track. Elton left the recording of his piano part
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  Speaker 1: until later in the production. This is something he never
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  Speaker 1: did before. What was his reasoning behind that?
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  Speaker 2: I have tried at first played piano along the band,
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  Speaker 2: but it didn't work because there was already much guitar,
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  Speaker 2: so he gave up. And then when the basic recording
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  Speaker 2: was finished, they had to combine him to play piano
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  Speaker 2: part ala Jerry le Lewis. So that's why while singing
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  Speaker 2: the main part, he was not forced to stay seated
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  Speaker 2: at the piano, so he tried new kings and he
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  Speaker 2: standed up lying on the floor. He was also asking
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  Speaker 2: the other musiciam insulting them and of course the limit
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  Speaker 2: was the microphone wire since the time wireless was not
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  Speaker 2: an option.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it was interesting, I think in the book
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  Speaker 1: it talks about too. There was some doubt as to
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  Speaker 1: whether they should even have a hard rock around the album,
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  Speaker 1: that that's not really ellton thing. And now man, he
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  Speaker 1: can rock. This is you know, this is why Elton
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  Speaker 1: still you know, some people will say, is Elton you know,
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  Speaker 1: more pop than rock or whatever, But if he wanted
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  Speaker 1: to rock, he could and he still can't.
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  Speaker 2: After especially in the recent times. I'd say from the
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  Speaker 2: nineties was in mainly as a balladier. The first singles
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  Speaker 2: used to promote the albums where Ballat of Songs. He
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  Speaker 2: released many compilations called love Songs, so Unfortunately, it's just
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  Speaker 2: a side, not the only one. He did all kinds
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  Speaker 2: of music. He did dance, he did funky, did everything.
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  Speaker 2: He also did a dance album called Victim of Love.
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  Speaker 2: It was a disaster, but he did
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