SKYLINE
PIGEON
ELTON
JOHN
SONGWRITERS: BERNIE TAUPIN / ELTON JOHN
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: EMPTY SKY
LABEL: DJM RECORDS
GENRE: BALLAD
YEAR: 1980
Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth
Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, pianist and composer.
Collaborating with lyricist Bernie Taupin since 1967 on more than 30 albums, John has sold over 300 million
records, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time.
He has more than fifty Top 40 hits in the UK Singles Chart and US Billboard Hot 100,
including seven number ones in the UK and nine in the US, as well as seven
consecutive number-one albums in the US. His tribute single "Candle in the
Wind 1997", rewritten in dedication to Diana,
Princess of Wales, sold over 33 million copies
worldwide and is the best-selling chart single of all time. According to Billboard in 2019, John is the top solo artist in US chart history (third
overall), and the top Adult
Contemporary artist of all time.
Raised in the Pinner area of Greater London, John learned to play piano at an early age,
and by 1962 had formed Bluesology, an
R&B band with whom he played until 1967. He met his longtime musical partner Taupin in
1967, after they both answered an advert for songwriters. For
two years, they wrote songs for artists including Lulu, and
John worked as a session musician for artists including the Hollies and the Scaffold. In
1969, John's debut album, Empty Sky, was
released. In 1970, his first hit single, "Your Song",
from his second album, Elton John,
became his first top ten in both the UK and the US. His most commercially
successful period, 1970–1976, included Honky Château(1972),
Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player(1973),
Goodbye
Yellow Brick Road(1973) and his first Greatest Hits compilation — the latter two among the official best-selling
albums worldwide. John has also had success in
musical films and theatre, composing for The Lion King and its stage
adaptation, Aida and Billy Elliot
the Musical.
John has received five Grammy Awards, five Brit Awards;
including for Outstanding Contribution to Music;
two Academy Awards, two Golden Globes,
a Tony Award, a Disney Legends Award, and the Kennedy
Center Honor. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him 49th on its list of 100 influential musicians of the rock
and roll era. He was inducted into the Songwriters
Hall of Fame in 1992 and the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame in 1994, and is a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors.
He was knighted by Queen
Elizabeth II for
"services to music and charitable services" in 1998. His music career
was dramatised in the 2019 biopic Rocketman.
"Skyline Pigeon" is a ballad
composed and performed by English musician Elton John with lyrics by Bernie Taupin.
It is the eighth track on his first album, Empty Sky.
It was originally released by Guy Darrell and Roger James
Cooke simultaneously as a single in August
1969.
Turn me loose from
your hands
Let me fly to distant lands
Over green fields, trees and mountains
Flowers and forest fountains
Home along the lanes of the skyway
For this dark and
lonely room
Projects a shadow cast in gloom
And my eyes are mirrors
Of the world outside
Thinking of the ways
That the wind can turn the tide
And these shadows turn
From purple into grey
For just a Skyline
Pigeon
Dreaming of the open
Waiting for the day
He can spread his wings
And fly away again
Fly away, skyline
pigeon, fly
Towards the dreams
You've left so very far behind
Fly away, skyline pigeon, fly
Towards the dreams
You've left so very far behind
Let me wake up in the
morning
To the smell of new mown hay
To laugh and cry, to live and die
In the brightness of my day
I want to hear the
pealing bells
Of distant churches sing
But most of all please free me
From this aching metal ring
And open out this cage towards the sun
For just a Skyline
Pigeon
Dreaming of the open
Waiting for the day
He can spread his wings
And fly away again
Fly away, skyline
pigeon, fly
Towards the dreams
You've left so very far behind
Fly away, skyline pigeon, fly
Towards the dreams
You've left so very, so very far behind.
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