0:00:03 > 0:00:05# All right, all right Saturday night's all right
0:00:05 > 0:00:08# All right, all right!
0:00:08 > 0:00:11# Ooh, ooh, ooh. #
0:00:19 > 0:00:23# It's a little bit funny
0:00:23 > 0:00:26# This feeling inside
0:00:26 > 0:00:32# I'm not one of those who can easily hide
0:00:32 > 0:00:35# I don't have much money
0:00:35 > 0:00:41# But, boy, if I did
0:00:41 > 0:00:46# I'd buy a big house where we both could live
0:00:49 > 0:00:53# If I was sculptor
0:00:53 > 0:00:55# Then again no
0:00:55 > 0:00:58# Or a man who makes potions
0:00:58 > 0:01:04# In the travelling show
0:01:04 > 0:01:10# I know it's not much but it's the best I can do
0:01:10 > 0:01:16# My gift is my song and this one's for you
0:01:19 > 0:01:23# And you can tell everybody
0:01:23 > 0:01:26# This is your song
0:01:26 > 0:01:29# It may be quite simple
0:01:29 > 0:01:33# But now that it's done
0:01:33 > 0:01:37# I hope you don't mind I hope you don't mind
0:01:37 > 0:01:42# That I put down in words
0:01:42 > 0:01:48# How wonderful life is while you're in the world
0:01:59 > 0:02:02# I sat on the roof
0:02:02 > 0:02:06# And kicked off the moss Well, a few
0:02:06 > 0:02:10# Of the verses Well, they got me
0:02:10 > 0:02:13# Quite cross
0:02:13 > 0:02:16# But the sun's been quite kind
0:02:16 > 0:02:20# While I wrote this song
0:02:20 > 0:02:23# It's for people like you that
0:02:23 > 0:02:26# Keep it turned on
0:02:28 > 0:02:32# So excuse me forgetting
0:02:32 > 0:02:36# But these things I do
0:02:36 > 0:02:38# You see, I've forgotten
0:02:38 > 0:02:43# If they're green or they're blue
0:02:43 > 0:02:45# Anyway, the thing is
0:02:45 > 0:02:47# What I really mean
0:02:50 > 0:02:54# Yours are the sweetest eyes
0:02:54 > 0:02:56# I've ever seen... #
0:02:56 > 0:02:59It's often said that the live theatre is struggling for survival,
0:02:59 > 0:03:02but at the Shaw Theatre in the Euston Road,
0:03:02 > 0:03:05stuck between the Eliza Doolittle pub and St Pancras station,
0:03:05 > 0:03:08there's no doubt whatever about the enthusiasm.
0:03:08 > 0:03:11It's not caused by the current production of Romeo And Juliet
0:03:11 > 0:03:15on this occasion. It's caused by something very different.
0:03:27 > 0:03:30# When I look back
0:03:30 > 0:03:31# Boy, I must have been green... #
0:03:31 > 0:03:35Elton John, excuse me interrupting your rehearsal, but why have you
0:03:35 > 0:03:38decided to support the National Youth Theatre?
0:03:38 > 0:03:42My solicitor Mr Mike Oliver is the chairman of the National Youth Theatre,
0:03:42 > 0:03:45and I suggested to him that I did some charity things early this year.
0:03:45 > 0:03:49So we decided to do two concerts on two consecutive Sundays
0:03:49 > 0:03:51and charge quite exorbitant prices really,
0:03:51 > 0:03:54in the hope that people would buy it and we'd be able to raise a couple
0:03:54 > 0:03:57of thousand pounds or so for the youth theatre.
0:03:57 > 0:04:01# Levon wears his war wound like a crown
0:04:05 > 0:04:09# He calls his child Jesus
0:04:12 > 0:04:15# Cos he likes the name
0:04:16 > 0:04:22# And he sends him to the finest school in town
0:04:24 > 0:04:28# Levon, Levon likes his money
0:04:32 > 0:04:35# He makes a lot, they say
0:04:38 > 0:04:42# Spends his days counting
0:04:43 > 0:04:50# In the garage by the motorway
0:04:50 > 0:04:54# He was a born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas day
0:04:54 > 0:04:57# When the New York Times said God is dead
0:04:57 > 0:05:00# And the war's begun
0:05:00 > 0:05:04# Alvin Tostig has a son today
0:05:08 > 0:05:11# And he shall be Levon
0:05:11 > 0:05:14# And he shall be a good man
0:05:14 > 0:05:17# And he shall be Levon
0:05:17 > 0:05:20# In tradition with the family plan
0:05:20 > 0:05:23# And he shall be Levon
0:05:23 > 0:05:27# And he shall be a good man
0:05:28 > 0:05:34# He shall be Levon... #
0:05:37 > 0:05:40Good evening to you from the Palladium Theatre in London.
0:05:40 > 0:05:44We welcome now a young English singer who's travelled from the West Coast of America
0:05:44 > 0:05:47to be here tonight with his group, Elton John.
0:05:47 > 0:05:52This next one is a song about all the rock 'n' roll records of the 1960s
0:05:52 > 0:05:54and it's a song called Crocodile Rock.
0:06:09 > 0:06:11# I remember when rock was young
0:06:11 > 0:06:15# Me and Susie had so much fun
0:06:15 > 0:06:18# Holding hands and skimming stones
0:06:18 > 0:06:21# Had an old gold Chevy and a place of my own
0:06:21 > 0:06:24# But the biggest kick I ever got
0:06:24 > 0:06:27# Was doing a thing called the crocodile rock
0:06:27 > 0:06:30# While the other kids were rocking round the clock
0:06:30 > 0:06:33# We were hopping and bopping to the crocodile rock
0:06:33 > 0:06:37# Oh, well, crocodile rocking is something shocking
0:06:37 > 0:06:40# When your feet just can't keep still
0:06:40 > 0:06:47# I never knew me a better time and I guess I never will
0:06:47 > 0:06:49# Oh, lawdy, mama Those Friday nights
0:06:49 > 0:06:52# When Susie wore her dresses tight
0:06:52 > 0:06:58# And crocodile rocking was out of sight
0:06:59 > 0:07:05# Laaaaa, la, la, la, la, la She's so yummy
0:07:05 > 0:07:08# La, la, la, la, la
0:07:08 > 0:07:10# La, la, la, la, la
0:07:11 > 0:07:15# I remember when rock was young
0:07:15 > 0:07:18# Me and Susie had so much
0:07:18 > 0:07:21# Holding hands and skimming stones
0:07:21 > 0:07:24# Had an old gold Chevy and a place of my own
0:07:24 > 0:07:27# But the biggest kick I ever got
0:07:27 > 0:07:30# Was doing a thing called the crocodile rock
0:07:30 > 0:07:34# While the other kids were rocking round the clock
0:07:34 > 0:07:37# We were hopping and bopping to the crocodile rock
0:07:37 > 0:07:40# Oh, well, crocodile rocking is something shocking
0:07:40 > 0:07:44# When your feet just can't keep still
0:07:44 > 0:07:49# I never knew me a better time and I guess I never will
0:07:49 > 0:07:53# Ooh, lawdy, mama Those Friday nights
0:07:53 > 0:07:56# When Susie wore her dresses tight
0:07:56 > 0:08:02# The crocodile rocking was out of sight
0:08:03 > 0:08:09# Laaaaa, la, la, la, la, la
0:08:09 > 0:08:11# La, la, la, la, la
0:08:11 > 0:08:14# La, la, la, la, la
0:08:15 > 0:08:16# La, la, la, la, la. #
0:08:18 > 0:08:20APPLAUSE
0:08:40 > 0:08:44A new record label has just started operations, the launch of which
0:08:44 > 0:08:46I've been looking forward to very, very much indeed.
0:08:46 > 0:08:50One of the gentlemen involved in the running of the label is with us tonight,
0:08:50 > 0:08:51- so may I welcome Elton John. - How are you?
0:08:51 > 0:08:55Many people say that they are inhibited by record labels
0:08:55 > 0:08:57and just the amount of time, for example...
0:08:57 > 0:09:00No, that's the reason why we set it up. The whole reason for starting
0:09:00 > 0:09:02a record label was to get away from
0:09:02 > 0:09:06the you must record an album in 15 hours type syndrome,
0:09:06 > 0:09:10and also most of our artists get at least 10% record royalties,
0:09:10 > 0:09:13which is very, very high.
0:09:13 > 0:09:15Have you had many problems setting it up yourself?
0:09:15 > 0:09:18Finding offices, for example, was a huge problem.
0:09:18 > 0:09:21I mean, it doesn't really happen overnight. We had about
0:09:21 > 0:09:2412 sites that were great and 12 sites that fell through,
0:09:24 > 0:09:27because they didn't want to lease it to a rock 'n' roll record company.
0:09:27 > 0:09:32The point of starting the record company was to encourage people who've got that spark of potential,
0:09:32 > 0:09:35to sort of encourage them onwards. I needed that when I started off
0:09:35 > 0:09:38and I really didn't get it half the time.
0:09:44 > 0:09:52# Daniel is travelling tonight on a plane
0:09:52 > 0:09:57# I can see the red tail lights heading for Spain
0:09:57 > 0:10:04# Oh, and I can see Daniel waving goodbye
0:10:04 > 0:10:10# Oh, it looks like Daniel
0:10:10 > 0:10:15# Must be the clouds in my eyes
0:10:20 > 0:10:25# They say Spain is pretty though I've never been
0:10:27 > 0:10:33# And Daniel says it's the best place he's ever seen
0:10:33 > 0:10:39# Oh, and he should know He's been there enough
0:10:41 > 0:10:46# Oh, I'll miss Daniel
0:10:46 > 0:10:51# Oh, I'll miss him so much
0:10:51 > 0:10:53# Oh, oh, oh
0:10:53 > 0:10:55# Daniel, my brother
0:10:55 > 0:10:58# You are older than me
0:10:58 > 0:11:03# Do you still feel the pain?
0:11:03 > 0:11:06# Of the scars that won't heal?
0:11:06 > 0:11:08# Your eyes have died
0:11:08 > 0:11:12# But you see more than I
0:11:12 > 0:11:16# Daniel, you're a star
0:11:16 > 0:11:21# In the face of the sky... #
0:11:31 > 0:11:34What does this result mean to you, getting to the third round?
0:11:34 > 0:11:36We don't know until Monday, do we?
0:11:36 > 0:11:41It's great to get to the third round, obviously, but judging by our past draws in the Cup this year,
0:11:41 > 0:11:44we'll probably be drawn to Plymouth or somewhere like that.
0:11:45 > 0:11:50# Lucy in the sky with diamonds
0:11:51 > 0:11:55# Lucy in the sky with diamonds
0:11:57 > 0:12:01# Lucy in the sky with diamonds
0:12:02 > 0:12:05# Oh
0:12:05 > 0:12:11# Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain
0:12:11 > 0:12:17# Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies... #
0:12:17 > 0:12:20You seem to have really enjoyed the things you did with Elton.
0:12:20 > 0:12:22Oh, yeah.
0:12:22 > 0:12:24Well, Elton and I are very close.
0:12:24 > 0:12:27It was just, "I'm doing a song - you want to come?" "All right."
0:12:27 > 0:12:29Did the live thing that you did with Elton
0:12:29 > 0:12:32prompt you to start thinking about going on the road again?
0:12:32 > 0:12:34No, me quote was, when I came off,
0:12:34 > 0:12:39"I enjoyed it a lot, but I wouldn't like to do it for a living."
0:12:42 > 0:12:45Whoa, Saturday!
0:12:45 > 0:12:48Saturday night's all right! Let me hear you sing it now.
0:12:48 > 0:12:49One, two, three, four.
0:12:49 > 0:12:52- CROWD:- # Saturday, Saturday Saturday
0:12:52 > 0:12:55# Saturday, Saturday, Saturday
0:12:55 > 0:12:59# Saturday, Saturday Saturday night's all right
0:12:59 > 0:13:03# Saturday, Saturday, Saturday
0:13:03 > 0:13:06# Saturday, Saturday, Saturday
0:13:06 > 0:13:11# Saturday, Saturday Saturday night's all right
0:13:11 > 0:13:14# Saturday, Saturday, Saturday
0:13:14 > 0:13:17# Saturday, Saturday, Saturday
0:13:17 > 0:13:21# Saturday, Saturday Saturday night's all right... #
0:14:25 > 0:14:26Woo!
0:14:30 > 0:14:32Oh, yeah!
0:14:38 > 0:14:40Ow!
0:14:47 > 0:14:50LAUGHTER
0:15:16 > 0:15:20# What have I got to do to make you love me?
0:15:24 > 0:15:27# What have I got to do to make you care?
0:15:31 > 0:15:35# What do I do when lightning strikes me
0:15:38 > 0:15:42# And I wake to find that you're not there?
0:15:45 > 0:15:50# What do I do to make you want me?
0:15:53 > 0:15:57# What have I got to do to be heard?
0:16:00 > 0:16:04# What do I say when it's all over
0:16:07 > 0:16:11# And sorry seems to be the hardest word?
0:16:15 > 0:16:18# It's sad, so sad
0:16:18 > 0:16:21# It's a sad, sad situation
0:16:21 > 0:16:26# And it's getting more and more absurd
0:16:29 > 0:16:32# It's sad, so sad
0:16:32 > 0:16:35# Why can't we talk it over?
0:16:35 > 0:16:38# Oh, it seems to me
0:16:38 > 0:16:44# That sorry seems to be the hardest word... #
0:17:13 > 0:17:17Ladies and gentlemen, Elton John!
0:17:17 > 0:17:21APPLAUSE
0:17:34 > 0:17:38When in fact did you first start to play piano?
0:17:38 > 0:17:42- Can you remember the first time you played?- I was about three and a half to four.
0:17:42 > 0:17:44I played The Skaters' Waltz by ear,
0:17:44 > 0:17:49much to the delight of my parents, who grabbed me and said, "We could make a fortune here."
0:17:49 > 0:17:51Did they really?
0:17:51 > 0:17:52No.
0:17:52 > 0:17:55In fact, your father wasn't too keen on you going into pop music, was he?
0:17:55 > 0:17:57No, he hated me going into pop music.
0:17:57 > 0:18:00He wrote me a letter when I was 16 saying,
0:18:00 > 0:18:05"I think you're an idiot and you're better off in Barclays Bank,
0:18:05 > 0:18:09"because this thing you're doing is stupid and you'll turn out to be a wide boy."
0:18:09 > 0:18:13I was already about 16 stone, so I was a wide boy already.
0:18:13 > 0:18:15You also played piano in a pub as well.
0:18:15 > 0:18:17- Yes.- What kind of training was that?
0:18:17 > 0:18:19Fantastic.
0:18:19 > 0:18:23I used to play every Thursday, Friday and Saturday and Sunday for a year
0:18:23 > 0:18:25at the Northwood Hills Hotel.
0:18:25 > 0:18:29First of all, I started off just playing piano and not singing,
0:18:29 > 0:18:32and then I earned a little bit of money,
0:18:32 > 0:18:35so I saved up and bought myself a little amplifier and a microphone
0:18:35 > 0:18:39and I started to sing, and it was all Jim Reeves songs in those days and Cliff Richard.
0:18:39 > 0:18:43So I was going... # I love you because you understand me. #
0:18:43 > 0:18:46I went down a storm.
0:18:47 > 0:18:54Did you feel or think that you were going to end up a kind of middle-aged ex-rock star, or what?
0:18:54 > 0:18:55God forbid, no.
0:18:55 > 0:18:59I've hopefully got two or three years left where I can have a good time.
0:18:59 > 0:19:02As long as you're having a good time, you're OK, and I am.
0:19:02 > 0:19:05- We've got a request.- What?
0:19:05 > 0:19:09- A request.- Maybe... Maybe It's Because I'm A Londoner.
0:19:09 > 0:19:13ALL: # Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner
0:19:13 > 0:19:17# That I love London so
0:19:18 > 0:19:21# Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner
0:19:21 > 0:19:26# That I think of her wherever I go
0:19:26 > 0:19:29# I get a funny feeling inside of me
0:19:29 > 0:19:33# Just walking up and down
0:19:34 > 0:19:37# Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner
0:19:37 > 0:19:41# That I love London town. #
0:19:41 > 0:19:43# Don't go breaking my heart
0:19:45 > 0:19:47# I couldn't if I tried
0:19:48 > 0:19:52# Oh, honey, if I get restless
0:19:52 > 0:19:55# Baby, you're not that kind
0:19:57 > 0:20:00# Don't go breaking my heart
0:20:01 > 0:20:04# You take the weight off of me
0:20:05 > 0:20:08# Oh, honey When you knock on my door
0:20:08 > 0:20:12# Ooh, I gave you my key
0:20:14 > 0:20:16# Ooh-hoo
0:20:16 > 0:20:18# Nobody knows it
0:20:21 > 0:20:22# But when I was down
0:20:22 > 0:20:25# I was your clown
0:20:25 > 0:20:26# Ooh-hoo
0:20:26 > 0:20:29# Nobody knows it
0:20:29 > 0:20:32# Nobody knows it
0:20:32 > 0:20:33# Right from the start
0:20:33 > 0:20:35# I gave you my heart
0:20:35 > 0:20:38# Oh, oh
0:20:38 > 0:20:41# I gave you my heart
0:20:43 > 0:20:45# So don't go breaking my heart
0:20:47 > 0:20:49# I won't go breaking your heart
0:20:52 > 0:20:55# Don't go breaking my heart. #
0:21:21 > 0:21:26# Oh, my love
0:21:27 > 0:21:31# I have cursed the stars above
0:21:31 > 0:21:35# That led
0:21:35 > 0:21:40# My heart to you
0:21:43 > 0:21:48# But as hard as I try
0:21:48 > 0:21:54# Still my love will not die
0:21:55 > 0:22:02# And the stars still shine on through
0:22:05 > 0:22:13# And the stars still shine on through
0:22:17 > 0:22:22# Oh, my dear
0:22:22 > 0:22:27# Now the ship's too hard to steer
0:22:28 > 0:22:30# The tide
0:22:30 > 0:22:35# Has turned, turned on you
0:22:38 > 0:22:44# I have been through the lies
0:22:44 > 0:22:50# That I see in your eyes
0:22:50 > 0:22:57# But the truth still shines on through. #
0:23:04 > 0:23:07That's what I was going to sing on The Morecambe And Wise Show.
0:23:07 > 0:23:08It's a good job you didn't.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11HE LAUGHS
0:23:11 > 0:23:14APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:23:14 > 0:23:18# She packed my bags last night pre-flight
0:23:20 > 0:23:24# Zero hour nine AM
0:23:27 > 0:23:32# And I'm gonna be high
0:23:32 > 0:23:34# As a kite by then
0:23:40 > 0:23:43# I miss the earth so much
0:23:43 > 0:23:45# I miss my wife
0:23:47 > 0:23:51# It's lonely out in space
0:23:54 > 0:24:00# On such a timeless flight
0:24:08 > 0:24:12# And I think it's gonna be a long, long time
0:24:12 > 0:24:15# Till touch down brings me round again to find
0:24:15 > 0:24:18# I'm not the man they think I am at home
0:24:18 > 0:24:23# Oh, no, no, no, I'm a rocket man
0:24:25 > 0:24:27# Rocket man
0:24:27 > 0:24:30# Burning out his fuse up here alone
0:24:36 > 0:24:40# And I think it's gonna be a long, long time
0:24:40 > 0:24:43# Till touch down brings me round again to find
0:24:43 > 0:24:47# I'm not the man they think I am at home
0:24:47 > 0:24:52# Oh, no, no, no, I'm a rocket man
0:24:53 > 0:24:55# Rocket man
0:24:55 > 0:24:58# Burning out his fuse up here alone
0:25:04 > 0:25:09# Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids
0:25:12 > 0:25:15# In fact, it's cold as hell
0:25:18 > 0:25:23# And there's no-one there to raise them
0:25:24 > 0:25:26# If you did
0:25:32 > 0:25:36# And all this science I don't understand
0:25:39 > 0:25:43# It's just my job five days a week
0:25:45 > 0:25:50# A rocket man
0:25:52 > 0:25:53# A rocket man
0:26:00 > 0:26:04# And I think it's gonna be a long, long time
0:26:04 > 0:26:08# Till touch down brings me round again to find
0:26:08 > 0:26:11# I'm not the man they think I am at home
0:26:11 > 0:26:15# Oh, no, no, no, I'm a rocket man
0:26:17 > 0:26:19# Rocket man
0:26:19 > 0:26:22# Burning out his fuse up here alone... #
0:26:22 > 0:26:25I always wanted to do a kind of instrumental,
0:26:25 > 0:26:26and it's called Song For Guy.
0:26:26 > 0:26:29It's a song about death, um...
0:26:29 > 0:26:31Really? In what circumstance?
0:26:31 > 0:26:33Well, I wrote it, it's very strange, on a Sunday,
0:26:33 > 0:26:36and my heart stood still, da-do-ron-ron-ron, da-do-ron-ron!
0:26:36 > 0:26:40And I knew what it was about, it was about a song about when you're dying
0:26:40 > 0:26:43and your spirit leaving your body, right at the end of the song.
0:26:43 > 0:26:44I'm fascinated by death,
0:26:44 > 0:26:48I've written a thing called Funeral For A Friend and things,
0:26:48 > 0:26:51but I didn't know what to call it. On the Monday morning, we found out
0:26:51 > 0:26:54the office boy had been killed on his motorbike the very same day,
0:26:54 > 0:26:57and his name was Guy, and that's why it's called Song For Guy.
0:26:57 > 0:27:00It wasn't written after we found out he'd died,
0:27:00 > 0:27:05it was unfortunately written more or less the same day that he had this unfortunate accident.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08Tragic, really, but it was perfect for what I wanted to sum up.
0:27:23 > 0:27:26# Life isn't everything
0:27:26 > 0:27:30# Isn't everything
0:27:31 > 0:27:34# Isn't everything
0:27:36 > 0:27:42# Life isn't everything
0:27:42 > 0:27:45# Isn't everything
0:27:46 > 0:27:49# Isn't everything
0:27:52 > 0:27:57# Life isn't everything
0:27:57 > 0:28:00# Isn't everything
0:28:01 > 0:28:05# Isn't everything
0:28:07 > 0:28:08# Life
0:28:10 > 0:28:12# Life
0:28:14 > 0:28:16# Life
0:28:18 > 0:28:19# Life
0:28:22 > 0:28:24# Life
0:28:26 > 0:28:27# Life
0:28:29 > 0:28:31# Life... #
0:28:31 > 0:28:32APPLAUSE
0:28:32 > 0:28:35We've news of something which caused quite a stir last night.
0:28:35 > 0:28:39It was actually at an auction and it was donated by Elton John,
0:28:39 > 0:28:42and he was trying to help raise funds for the Royal Opera House,
0:28:42 > 0:28:44and it was Elton John's bike!
0:28:44 > 0:28:46- HORN TOOTS - Way!
0:28:46 > 0:28:48Well, this bike was specially built
0:28:48 > 0:28:51for Elton John's stage act in America five years ago,
0:28:51 > 0:28:54and I can bet you there isn't another bike like this in the world.
0:28:54 > 0:28:56CHEERING
0:29:08 > 0:29:11# I was justified when I was five
0:29:11 > 0:29:14# Raising Cain, I spit in your eye
0:29:14 > 0:29:17# Times are changing Now the poor get fat
0:29:17 > 0:29:20# But the fever's gonna catch you when the bitch gets back
0:29:27 > 0:29:30# I eat meat on a Friday That's all right
0:29:30 > 0:29:33# I even like steak on a Saturday night
0:29:33 > 0:29:36# I can bitch the best at your social dos
0:29:36 > 0:29:39# I get high in the evening sniffing pots of glue
0:29:42 > 0:29:45# I'm a bitch, I'm a bitch The bitch is back
0:29:45 > 0:29:48# Stone-cold sober As a matter of fact
0:29:48 > 0:29:51# I can bitch, I can bitch I'm better than you
0:29:51 > 0:29:54# It's the way that I move The things that I do
0:30:07 > 0:30:10# I entertain by picking brains
0:30:10 > 0:30:13# Sell my soul by dropping names
0:30:13 > 0:30:16# I don't like those My God, what's that?
0:30:16 > 0:30:19# Oh, there's a lot of nasty habits when the bitch gets back, whoa
0:30:22 > 0:30:25# I'm a bitch, I'm a bitch The bitch is back
0:30:25 > 0:30:28# Stone-cold sober As a matter of fact
0:30:28 > 0:30:32# I can bitch, I can bitch I'm better than you
0:30:32 > 0:30:35# It's the way that I move The things that I do, whoa
0:30:39 > 0:30:40# All right
0:30:56 > 0:30:59# I'm a bitch, I'm a bitch The bitch is back
0:30:59 > 0:31:02# Stone-cold sober As a matter of fact
0:31:02 > 0:31:06# I can bitch, I can bitch I'm better than you
0:31:06 > 0:31:09# It's the way that I move The things that I do, whoa. #
0:31:14 > 0:31:17It's great for Top Of The Pops when a real megastar comes to do it live.
0:31:17 > 0:31:21Look at Elton John, and here's his hit.
0:31:21 > 0:31:24# Blue eyes
0:31:25 > 0:31:29# Baby's got blue eyes
0:31:32 > 0:31:37# Like the deep blue sea
0:31:38 > 0:31:43# On a blue, blue day
0:31:48 > 0:31:52# Blue eyes
0:31:52 > 0:31:56# Baby's got blue eyes
0:31:59 > 0:32:04# When the morning comes
0:32:06 > 0:32:09# I'll be far away
0:32:11 > 0:32:14# And I say
0:32:15 > 0:32:19# Blue eyes holdin' back the tears
0:32:19 > 0:32:23# Holding back the pain
0:32:25 > 0:32:29# Baby's got blue eyes
0:32:31 > 0:32:34# And she's alone
0:32:37 > 0:32:39# Again... #
0:32:39 > 0:32:41Now, you've had 11 hits in the British top ten
0:32:41 > 0:32:43and lots more in the States,
0:32:43 > 0:32:45- what do you think makes a hit? - I really don't know.
0:32:45 > 0:32:47If you knew what was going to make a hit,
0:32:47 > 0:32:49you could write them all the time.
0:32:49 > 0:32:51I'm not that sort of songwriter -
0:32:51 > 0:32:52I just write...twice a year.
0:32:52 > 0:32:54What is your method when you write a song?
0:32:54 > 0:32:58Well, it depends which way I'm writing. If I'm writing to lyrics,
0:32:58 > 0:33:00then I just get the lyrics and then write the song,
0:33:00 > 0:33:02the melody, to the lyrics.
0:33:02 > 0:33:05And if I write the melody first, I can contribute some of my own lyrics,
0:33:05 > 0:33:07cos I'm not very good on lyrics.
0:33:07 > 0:33:11Then someone will finish off a couple of my ideas.
0:33:11 > 0:33:13So that's quite handy. I work both ways.
0:33:13 > 0:33:16Do you do one song, when you're inspired, straight through?
0:33:16 > 0:33:20Oh, yes, I don't usually take more than half an hour when I write a song.
0:33:20 > 0:33:21I don't really write that much,
0:33:21 > 0:33:25I don't go around with a piano all the time, as it's impossible anyway.
0:33:25 > 0:33:26Just thinking of melodies.
0:33:26 > 0:33:30So if I starve myself when writing, I find I can write better.
0:33:30 > 0:33:33# Time on my hands
0:33:33 > 0:33:36# Could be time spent with you
0:33:36 > 0:33:39# Laughing like children
0:33:39 > 0:33:42# Living like lovers
0:33:42 > 0:33:45# Rolling like thunder
0:33:45 > 0:33:48# Under the covers
0:33:49 > 0:33:53# And I guess that's why they call it the blues... #
0:33:53 > 0:33:57At Wembley, Everton won the FA Cup for the fourth time in their history
0:33:57 > 0:34:00when they beat Watford, making their first appearance in the final,
0:34:00 > 0:34:02by two goals to nil.
0:34:02 > 0:34:05Sherwood didn't collect! The goal is given!
0:34:07 > 0:34:12# ..And I guess that's why they call it the blues. #
0:34:12 > 0:34:17# Don't you know I'm still standing better than I ever did
0:34:17 > 0:34:20# Looking like a true survivor
0:34:20 > 0:34:23# Feeling like a little kid
0:34:23 > 0:34:26# I'm still standing
0:34:26 > 0:34:28# After all this time
0:34:28 > 0:34:31# Picking up the pieces of my life
0:34:31 > 0:34:34# Without you on my mind
0:34:34 > 0:34:37# I'm still standing Yeah, yeah, yeah... #
0:34:37 > 0:34:39Hello. Pleased to meet you.
0:34:39 > 0:34:41What an amazing place!
0:34:41 > 0:34:42- Thank you.- Gorgeous garden.
0:34:42 > 0:34:45- A bit different from our Blue Peter garden.- A little bit bigger.
0:34:45 > 0:34:50- Percy Thrower might have a problem here. I'll show you round?- OK.
0:34:54 > 0:34:58Elton uses the latest electric vehicles to get around his gardens.
0:34:58 > 0:35:01We started by passing his other fleet of cars,
0:35:01 > 0:35:03quite a bit bigger.
0:35:03 > 0:35:06- Amazing collection of cars!- Yeah.
0:35:06 > 0:35:09- How many have you got?- About 12.
0:35:13 > 0:35:16And this is what his success is all about -
0:35:16 > 0:35:20the corridor of platinum, gold and silver discs,
0:35:20 > 0:35:23just hundreds of them from all over the world.
0:35:24 > 0:35:28His albums alone have sold up to 18 million worldwide,
0:35:28 > 0:35:34a far cry from when he was a young, unknown musician called Reg Dwight.
0:35:39 > 0:35:42And this is where all those songs are written.
0:35:48 > 0:35:51Hi. Amazing collection of antiques you have here.
0:35:51 > 0:35:55- It's like being in a museum.- With me as the oldest object, probably.
0:35:55 > 0:35:56As a kid...
0:35:56 > 0:35:59Well, I always spent my pocket money on collecting things as a child,
0:35:59 > 0:36:02and when you start collecting things, no matter what value they are,
0:36:02 > 0:36:04you increase your knowledge.
0:36:04 > 0:36:06What would you say to someone starting off in the business?
0:36:06 > 0:36:10If you have 100% belief and faith and you create your own luck,
0:36:10 > 0:36:13and you only create your own luck by being positive in life,
0:36:13 > 0:36:15then I think something will happen for you.
0:36:15 > 0:36:18- Michael! You want a lift?- Yep. OK.
0:36:23 > 0:36:26OK, let's watch the video.
0:36:26 > 0:36:30Elton John's having his 38th solo British hit single at the moment,
0:36:30 > 0:36:33the highest record to come into the chart this week,
0:36:33 > 0:36:34this is Nikita.
0:36:34 > 0:36:35CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:36:47 > 0:36:50# Hey, Nikita, is it cold
0:36:52 > 0:36:57# In your little corner of the world?
0:36:58 > 0:37:02# You could roll around the globe
0:37:04 > 0:37:08# And never find a warmer soul to know
0:37:09 > 0:37:13# Oh, I saw you by the wall
0:37:15 > 0:37:18# Ten of your tin soldiers in a row
0:37:20 > 0:37:24# With eyes that looked like ice on fire
0:37:26 > 0:37:30# The human heart a captive in the snow
0:37:31 > 0:37:35# Oh, Nikita, you will never know
0:37:38 > 0:37:42# Anything about my home
0:37:42 > 0:37:46# I'll never know how good it feels to hold you
0:37:47 > 0:37:49# Hold you
0:37:49 > 0:37:53# Nikita, I need you so... #
0:37:53 > 0:37:54Do you remember when...?
0:37:54 > 0:37:56- Will we ever forget that very first show?- No.
0:37:56 > 0:37:59And somebody sabotaged my talk with you.
0:37:59 > 0:38:03Let's have a quick look at it, just to remind ourselves of all...
0:38:03 > 0:38:05Anything could have happened.
0:38:05 > 0:38:07Anything. Do you remember?
0:38:09 > 0:38:10Came on...
0:38:10 > 0:38:12CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:38:19 > 0:38:21Honestly. Every time I see that...
0:38:21 > 0:38:23Anything could have happened,
0:38:23 > 0:38:27I could have fallen forward into the piano, done a Mike Gatting.
0:38:27 > 0:38:30- You were supposed to fall into my arms, darling.- I might at the end.
0:38:30 > 0:38:34But as a memento of that... LAUGHTER
0:38:34 > 0:38:37..we've had London's top jewellers...
0:38:37 > 0:38:39LAUGHTER
0:38:39 > 0:38:41..Fyffes...
0:38:41 > 0:38:43make you this fabulous award,
0:38:43 > 0:38:47and I just want you to keep it as a great memento of that first evening.
0:38:47 > 0:38:48I shall wear it always. Thank you.
0:38:53 > 0:38:55# Goodbye, Norma Jean
0:38:55 > 0:38:59# Though I never knew you at all
0:38:59 > 0:39:02# You had the grace to hold yourself
0:39:02 > 0:39:05# While those around you crawled
0:39:06 > 0:39:09# They crawled out of the woodwork
0:39:10 > 0:39:13# And they whispered into your brain
0:39:13 > 0:39:15# They set you on the treadmill
0:39:15 > 0:39:18# And they made you change your name
0:39:21 > 0:39:24# It seems to me you lived your life
0:39:24 > 0:39:28# Like a candle in the wind
0:39:28 > 0:39:31# Never knowing who to cling to
0:39:31 > 0:39:34# When the rain set in
0:39:36 > 0:39:38# I would have liked to have known you
0:39:38 > 0:39:40# But I was just a kid
0:39:40 > 0:39:44# Your candle burned out long before
0:39:46 > 0:39:49# Your legend ever did
0:40:00 > 0:40:03# Loneliness was tough
0:40:03 > 0:40:06# The toughest role you ever played
0:40:06 > 0:40:09# Hollywood created a superstar
0:40:09 > 0:40:12# And pain was the price you paid
0:40:14 > 0:40:16# Even when you died
0:40:18 > 0:40:21# Oh, the press still hounded you
0:40:21 > 0:40:23# All the papers had to say
0:40:23 > 0:40:25# Was that Marilyn
0:40:25 > 0:40:27# Was found in the nude
0:40:29 > 0:40:32# It seems to me you lived your life
0:40:32 > 0:40:36# Like a candle in the wind
0:40:36 > 0:40:39# Never knowing who to cling to
0:40:39 > 0:40:42# When the rain set in
0:40:43 > 0:40:46# I would have liked to have known you
0:40:46 > 0:40:49# But I was just a kid
0:40:49 > 0:40:53# Your candle burned out long before
0:40:54 > 0:40:57# Your legend ever did... #
0:41:00 > 0:41:02Elton John, the singer-songwriter
0:41:02 > 0:41:04famous for his outrageous spectacles,
0:41:04 > 0:41:07platform boots and love of Watford Football Club,
0:41:07 > 0:41:11has put his huge collection of pop and art memorabilia up for auction.
0:41:11 > 0:41:152,000 items will be going under the hammer at Sotheby's next month.
0:41:15 > 0:41:18And Elton is expected to make more than £3 million.
0:41:18 > 0:41:19There are some lovely things here
0:41:19 > 0:41:22and some things that people have a giggle at, which is great.
0:41:22 > 0:41:26I don't mind that, because I always put myself out there to be giggled at anyway.
0:41:26 > 0:41:27It's the end of an era.
0:41:27 > 0:41:30It marks the end, I'm not going to do that any more, I said that publicly,
0:41:30 > 0:41:33because you get to a point where you think you're too old
0:41:33 > 0:41:35and you look ridiculous. I can't do that any more.
0:41:35 > 0:41:38For somebody with such a monstrous amount of talent,
0:41:38 > 0:41:42and for somebody's who's been churning out such quality songs for such a long time,
0:41:42 > 0:41:46it's incredible to think this is Elton's first ever number one!
0:41:48 > 0:41:51# And it's no sacrifice
0:41:51 > 0:41:54# Just a simple word
0:41:56 > 0:41:59# It's two hearts living
0:42:00 > 0:42:03# In two separate worlds
0:42:04 > 0:42:09# But it's no sacrifice
0:42:10 > 0:42:13# No sacrifice
0:42:14 > 0:42:20# It's no sacrifice at all
0:42:28 > 0:42:31# Mutual misunderstanding
0:42:31 > 0:42:34# After the fact
0:42:35 > 0:42:39# Sensitivity builds a prison
0:42:39 > 0:42:42# In the final act
0:42:43 > 0:42:46# We lose direction
0:42:48 > 0:42:51# No stone unturned
0:42:52 > 0:42:55# No tears to damn you
0:42:56 > 0:43:00# When jealousy burns
0:43:01 > 0:43:03# Cold, cold heart
0:43:05 > 0:43:07# Hard done by you
0:43:09 > 0:43:13# Some things look better, baby
0:43:13 > 0:43:16# Just passing through
0:43:18 > 0:43:22# And it's no sacrifice
0:43:22 > 0:43:25# Just a simple word
0:43:26 > 0:43:29# It's two hearts living
0:43:30 > 0:43:33# In two separate worlds... #
0:43:33 > 0:43:35CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:43:35 > 0:43:39With his hit song from The Lion King, the one, the only Elton John!
0:43:39 > 0:43:42CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:43:50 > 0:43:54# From the day we arrive on the planet
0:43:56 > 0:44:00# And blinking, step into the sun
0:44:02 > 0:44:05# There's more to be seen
0:44:05 > 0:44:07# Than can ever be seen
0:44:07 > 0:44:12# More to do than can ever be done
0:44:15 > 0:44:18# Some say eat or be eaten
0:44:19 > 0:44:24# Some say live and let live
0:44:25 > 0:44:29# But all are agreed
0:44:29 > 0:44:31# As they join the stampede
0:44:31 > 0:44:36# You should never take more than you give
0:44:36 > 0:44:40# In the circle of life
0:44:41 > 0:44:46# It's the wheel of fortune
0:44:48 > 0:44:51# It's the leap of faith
0:44:54 > 0:44:57# It's the band of hope
0:44:59 > 0:45:04# Till we find our place
0:45:05 > 0:45:09# On the path unwinding
0:45:13 > 0:45:17# In the circle
0:45:18 > 0:45:21# The circle of life... #
0:45:28 > 0:45:34# Goodbye, England's rose May you ever grow in our hearts
0:45:34 > 0:45:38# You were the grace that placed itself
0:45:38 > 0:45:41# Where lives were torn apart
0:45:43 > 0:45:44# You called out... #
0:45:44 > 0:45:47A recording of Candle In The Wind, Elton John's tribute
0:45:47 > 0:45:51to Diana, Princess Of Wales, today sold out within hours of going on sale.
0:45:51 > 0:45:54People queued from the early hours to ensure they got a copy,
0:45:54 > 0:45:58and many stores had to limit the number customers could buy.
0:45:58 > 0:46:03# ..And it seems to me you lived your life
0:46:03 > 0:46:07# Like a candle in the wind
0:46:07 > 0:46:12# Never fading with the sunset when the rain set in... #
0:46:12 > 0:46:14When people talk about me,
0:46:14 > 0:46:16it's either about the hair,
0:46:16 > 0:46:21the flowers, my sexuality,
0:46:21 > 0:46:23The Lion King, the football club...
0:46:23 > 0:46:26- Let me cross these off one by one. - Right.
0:46:26 > 0:46:27LAUGHTER
0:46:27 > 0:46:30They never talk about the bloody records any more!
0:46:30 > 0:46:33In 20 months, you spent £40 million...
0:46:33 > 0:46:36- AUDIENCE MEMBER:- Fabulous! - Plus...
0:46:36 > 0:46:38LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
0:46:38 > 0:46:44Plus £293,000 on flowers in that same 20 months.
0:46:44 > 0:46:47- Mm-hm.- Now, you must like flowers an awful lot.
0:46:47 > 0:46:50I love them, yes. It'll be on my gravestone - "He liked flowers."
0:46:50 > 0:46:53People said, "Aren't you ashamed? It's disgraceful."
0:46:53 > 0:46:57I said, "I pay my taxes, I've always lived here. How I spend my money's irrelevant, really."
0:46:57 > 0:47:00But yes, I did spend that amount of money and am I ashamed of it?
0:47:00 > 0:47:02No, I'm not, so...
0:47:02 > 0:47:04APPLAUSE
0:47:05 > 0:47:11# I want love but it's impossible
0:47:12 > 0:47:17# A man like me so irresponsible
0:47:19 > 0:47:26# A man like me is dead in places
0:47:26 > 0:47:32# Other men feel liberated
0:47:32 > 0:47:38# And I can't love shot full of holes
0:47:40 > 0:47:44# Don't feel nothing I just feel cold
0:47:46 > 0:47:52# Don't feel nothing Just old scars
0:47:53 > 0:47:59# Toughening up around my heart
0:47:59 > 0:48:05# But I want love Just a different kind
0:48:05 > 0:48:09# I want love Won't break me down
0:48:09 > 0:48:12# Won't brick me up Won't fence me in
0:48:12 > 0:48:15# I want a love that don't mean a thing
0:48:15 > 0:48:22# That's the love I want I want love... #
0:48:22 > 0:48:26He's played Wembley, Madison Square Garden, even Buckingham Palace.
0:48:26 > 0:48:28This afternoon, Sir Elton John was centre stage again,
0:48:28 > 0:48:31but this time before an audience at the US Senate.
0:48:31 > 0:48:34This is the government of the richest nation in history,
0:48:34 > 0:48:38and I'm here asking you for more money to stop the worst epidemic in history.
0:48:38 > 0:48:41If the United States says, "We have a moral obligation to act,"
0:48:41 > 0:48:44then other major nations will follow.
0:48:46 > 0:48:49- CHEERING AND APPLAUSE - During his long and distinguished career,
0:48:49 > 0:48:52Elton has performed with some of the biggest stars in the business -
0:48:52 > 0:48:57George Michael, Aretha Franklin, some Irish fella, I can't remember his name - anyway...
0:48:57 > 0:49:02but here he is now performing with the newly crowned kings of pop,
0:49:02 > 0:49:05Sir Elton John!
0:49:09 > 0:49:11SCREAMING AND CHEERING
0:49:19 > 0:49:23# What have I got to do to make you love me?
0:49:25 > 0:49:28# What I got to do to make you care? #
0:49:28 > 0:49:29SPEECH INAUDIBLE
0:49:31 > 0:49:35# What do I do when lightning strikes me
0:49:37 > 0:49:43# And I wake to find that you're not there? Mm-mm
0:49:43 > 0:49:47# What have I got to do to make you want me?
0:49:49 > 0:49:55- # What I got to do to be heard? - Oh-oh-oh-oh
0:49:55 > 0:50:01- # What do I say when it's all over? - Yeah
0:50:01 > 0:50:04# Sorry seems to be the hardest word
0:50:07 > 0:50:13# It's sad, so sad It's a sad, sad situation
0:50:13 > 0:50:17# And it's getting more and more absurd
0:50:19 > 0:50:25- # It's sad, so sad - Why can't we talk it over?
0:50:25 > 0:50:28# Always seems to me
0:50:28 > 0:50:31# That sorry seems to be the hardest word... #
0:50:31 > 0:50:33- Don't go! Don't go!- Get off me.
0:50:33 > 0:50:35I wanted you, because I wanted the best.
0:50:35 > 0:50:38- The Beatles were the best, and you're the best.- Get off me!
0:50:38 > 0:50:42- The best piano player?!- Yes.- Have you seen the fingers on him?
0:50:42 > 0:50:44Oh, don't. You've got lovely hands, haven't you, Elton?
0:50:44 > 0:50:48You've got fingers like me - ten Porkinson's bangers, haven't we?
0:50:48 > 0:50:50Darling, at least mine are chipolatas. I never liked you.
0:50:50 > 0:50:53- But I've auctioned your clothes for AIDS.- But I was wearing them!- Oh!
0:50:53 > 0:50:55- Hi.- Ah.
0:50:55 > 0:50:58I think I knew you when you were a man.
0:50:58 > 0:51:01And I knew you when you had hair.
0:51:01 > 0:51:04- I've always had hair, bitch.- Oh.
0:51:04 > 0:51:11# And can you feel the love tonight?
0:51:12 > 0:51:17# It is where we are
0:51:21 > 0:51:27# It's enough for this wide-eyed wanderer
0:51:27 > 0:51:33# That we got this far... #
0:51:33 > 0:51:38In recognition of all the incredible work you do in support of people with AIDS and HIV,
0:51:38 > 0:51:42it gives us all on Blue Peter a real pleasure to award you with the programme's highest accolade -
0:51:42 > 0:51:45- the gold Blue Peter badge.- Wow! - And I'd love to pin it on you.
0:51:45 > 0:51:48- Forget the knighthood!- Yeah.- No, we don't need... Forget the knighthood.
0:51:48 > 0:51:54- There you go. What do you think of that?- Fabulous. There you go.
0:51:54 > 0:51:57That's great. Thank you so much. Thank you, Blue Peter. Thank you.
0:51:57 > 0:52:01Um...I'm overwhelmed. And over here!
0:52:01 > 0:52:0531 years ago, we released Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy,
0:52:05 > 0:52:08which was a benchmark album for us in many ways,
0:52:08 > 0:52:10because it was autobiographical
0:52:10 > 0:52:15and it told the story of how, when Bernie and I first got together,
0:52:15 > 0:52:19how we struggled to make it,
0:52:19 > 0:52:25and it goes right up to the point before we went to America in 1970,
0:52:25 > 0:52:29and it was an album really having to do with failure and disappointments.
0:52:29 > 0:52:35This is one of the songs, one of my all-time favourite songs that we've written -
0:52:35 > 0:52:37Someone Saved My Life Tonight.
0:52:51 > 0:52:57# When I think of those East End lights, muggy nights
0:52:57 > 0:53:02# The curtains drawn in the little room downstairs
0:53:04 > 0:53:07# Prima Donna Lord You really should have been there
0:53:07 > 0:53:12# Sitting like a princess perched in her electric chair
0:53:14 > 0:53:21# And it's one more beer and I don't hear you any more
0:53:21 > 0:53:24# We've all gone crazy lately
0:53:24 > 0:53:30# My friends out there rolling round the basement floor
0:53:30 > 0:53:35# Woo-ooh-ooh
0:53:35 > 0:53:43# And someone saved my life tonight Sugar bear
0:53:43 > 0:53:47# You almost had your hooks in me Didn't you, dear?
0:53:47 > 0:53:55# You nearly had me roped and tied Altar-bound, hypnotised
0:53:55 > 0:54:01# Sweet freedom whispered in my ear You're a butterfly
0:54:02 > 0:54:08# And butterflies are free to fly Fly away
0:54:09 > 0:54:15# High away, bye-bye
0:54:15 > 0:54:19# Oooh-oooh-oooh
0:54:37 > 0:54:43# And I would have walked head on into the deep end of the river
0:54:43 > 0:54:51# Clinging to your stocks and bonds Paying your HP demands forever
0:54:51 > 0:54:57# They're coming in the morning with a truck to take me home
0:54:58 > 0:55:05# Someone saved my life tonight Someone saved my life tonight
0:55:05 > 0:55:12# Someone saved my life tonight Someone saved my life tonight
0:55:12 > 0:55:15# Someone saved my life tonight
0:55:15 > 0:55:21# So save your strength and run the field you play alone
0:55:22 > 0:55:28# And someone saved my life tonight Sugar bear
0:55:28 > 0:55:30# Sugar bear
0:55:30 > 0:55:35# You almost had your hooks in me Didn't you, dear?
0:55:35 > 0:55:43# You nearly had me roped and tied Altar-bound, hypnotised
0:55:43 > 0:55:48# Sweet freedom whispered in my ear You're a butterfly
0:55:49 > 0:55:54# And butterflies are free to fly Fly away
0:55:56 > 0:56:01# High away, bye-bye
0:56:02 > 0:56:04# Oh, yeah. #
0:56:20 > 0:56:22Thank you. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:56:22 > 0:56:24APPLAUSE DROWNS SPEECH