![]() ![]() I send my best wishes to ESA and all the crew, and my thanks for keeping those boyhood dreams alive. 0:00 / 4:42 Elton John - Rocket Man (Official Music Video) Elton John 3.87M subscribers 130M views 5 years ago Elton John's new album The Lockdown Sessions. ![]() “Now, 40 years later, it’s amazing to hear from the astronauts at the European Space Agency that they like the song and that it has been on the playlist on the International Space Station. It was thrilling to find that real astronauts liked our song, Rocket Man, which was about an imaginary astronaut. Rocket Man - Elton John Verse 1 Em7 A9 She packed my bags last night - pre-flight Em7 A9 Zero hour, nine A.M. This is Elton Crash land into your seat with The Rocket Man Show, starring Scotsman Rus Anderson. “Not long after the Rocket Man single was released, my band and I were invited to the NASA headquarters in Texas and shown around by Al Worden, Apollo 15 command module pilot. Home page of The Rocket Man Show, a rock group from Tampa. ‘Rocket Man’ - and indeed ‘Dan Dare’ on the Rock of the Westies album - came from those boyhood dreams of travelling beyond the stars and looking back on Earth. “Our generation was smitten with the glory and excitement of space travel. Bernie and I did not meet until 1967, and two years after we met, Neil Armstrong became the first man to step on to the moon. Just last year, pop sensation Dua Lipa sampled the 1972 lyrics for. I was 14 years old when Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space my songwriting partner Bernie Taupin was just 11. Elton John’s triple-platinum song, Rocket Man, is still orbiting in popular culture 50 years after its initial release. Watch America's Got Talent highlight 'Sara James Sings 'Rocket Man' by Elton John STUNNING Performance NBC's AGT 2022' on NBC.com. Sir Elton said, “When I was a boy Dan Dare was a comic book hero, and space travel just a romantic idea, not a reality. 0:00 / 4:42 Elton John - Rocket Man (Official Music Video) Elton John 3.87M subscribers 130M views 5 years ago Elton Johns new album The Lockdown Sessions. ![]()
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