We continue our look at the music of 50 years agoâ¦
If you had to pick one musical artist to represent the decade of the 1970âs you would be hard-pressed to find a better one than Elton John. With the exception of 1977 (re-hab?) Elton had at least one album and sometimes two in the charts during every year of the decade. It was a remarkable run for he and lyricist Bernie Taupin. And 1971 was a particularly fertile year. Not only did they drop two outstanding studio albums including Madman Across The Water which we will get to later this yearâ¦but they also recorded the soundtrack to the movie âFriendsâ and also released a live recording called 17-11-70 which was a great intimate concert in a New York radio studio.