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Elton John - Roller Coaster (1986)

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Channel: Ronnie Friend · 2015 · Music

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An unreleased discarded mid-1980s demo of a song by Elton John. In this mostly instrumental demo Elton seems to have been suggesting lyrics or a topic of a song. This apparently was simply a way for him to create music, when he wasn't writing to Bernie Taupin's lyrics. A demo such as this would have been given to Gary Osborne, who would then write a proper lyric to the tune.
Another demo from the same period seems to be a further development of this song, called "Is It You?" But those lyrics seem to be also incomplete. This is evidently a song that never really got anywhere. Somehow the demo survived.... Mid-80s Elton John in very raw and rough form.
You can hear the later development of the song "is It You?" here:
https://youtu.be/IB1_sn_mG_4

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