With the Honky Chateau 50th Anniversary Deluxe set coming out next month Yahoo Entertainment drops a story about the album that gave us Elton's first #1 hit "Crocodile Rock". There are rumors that there's an expansive 50th Anniversary set for Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player coming out later this year. So this could be planting the seed for that collection.
It was the embodiment of a hard-earned victory. By the turn of 1973, Elton John had been releasing albums for several years, not to mention all the dues he had paid in obscurity as a touring and session musician from the mid-60s onwards.
At times, even after his breakthrough across the Atlantic, he had felt like giving up. But finally, his sixth studio album, Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player, gave him a No.1 album in his own country.
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