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Sir Elton is a pretty colorful person and has made some enemies.  Once at a formal function in England, he was being heckled by the crowd.  He turned and gave them the social finger, and since that day he's been on my admiration list.  No matter what his personal politics or lifestyle, he has created some great music.  I believe this is one of his greatest, if not the greatest he's done.

The bass part is very straight forward and shouldn't give any bass player any difficulty.  The percussion was created from a data bank of percussion measures I've stolen over the years from folks that really know how to do percussion.  I put them together and edited to follow the flow of the music.

The guitar part moves around, but shouldn't create any real problems.  The guitar part can also be played as a solo.  Chords are pretty much standard rock and roll triads and a few 7ths.  As with most rock tunes, simple triads played against an interesting bass line provides the harmonic interest.

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