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Elton John - Is It You? (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. This is a demo in very rough form, where 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.
This demo seems to be a further development of another demo from the same period called "Roller Coaster." This is evidently a song that never really got anywhere. Somehow the demo survived in very raw and rough form.
You can hear the earlier form of the song "Roller Coaster" here:
https://youtu.be/E-o6m4DJMpQ?list=PLAHBcNilnj85rylkOSk-aHDKksXRjM88O

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