Elton John/YMMV

• Awesome Music: Funeral for A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding, first track of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Apparently, according to The Other Wiki, it is the kind of music he wants played at his funeral.
  • Also, listen to "You're So Static" from the Caribou album. It features the Tower of Power horn section at it's best. Pure. Unadulterated. Awesome.
  • And, of course, the soundtrack to The Lion King.
• Crazy Awesome Up to Eleven: His increasing flamboyant stage shows of The Seventies. One show at the Hollywood Bowl in 1973 involved a frilly costume, a long staircase, celebrity impersonators, Linda Lovelace as MC and five differently-colored pianos on stage spelling E-L-T-O-N on their sides. They opened up with doves flying out of each one. Later on, his engineer played organ on "Crocodile Rock" while a live crocodile on a leash roamed the stage.
  • Also, his role in Tommy as the Local Lad, the character who sings "Pinball Wizard". There's a really good reason that his role in it is considered to be one of if not the most well-known parts of the whole movie, even though his part is only about five minutes long.
  • Not to mention his Donald Duck costume at the free televised Central Park concert in 1980.
    • The gigantic Louis XIV costume (especially the wig) he wore for his 50th birthday party also counts. He had to travel in a giant truck for that one.
• Deader Than Disco: His 1979 disco album, Victim Of Love. Also an Old Shame.
• Ear Worm: The chorus of "Levon":

He was born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas Day, when the New York Times said, "God Is Dead", and the war's begun, Alvin Tostig has a son today

• • "Rocket Man", "Your Song", "Philadelphia Freedom", "Bennie And The Jets", "Crocodile Rock", "Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)", "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", "I'm Still Standing"...he is a master of the earworm.
  • His cover-version of the already earworm-ish "Pinball Wizard". It should be noted that it was (and still is) the only cover-version of a Who song to reach on any Top Ten charts.
• Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory: There are many, many debates over the meaning of "Levon".
  • He and Bernie Taupin mocked the trope in the Caribou cut, "Solar Prestige A Gammon". Naturally, that song was also over-analyzed, a la "I Am The Walrus".
• Funny Moments: His oven manual song.
• Glurge: "Candle In The Wind 1997."
• Hype Backlash: He received this to a point in The Seventies and The Eighties, but it really took off in The Nineties with the release of "Candle in the Wind 1997."
• Sequel Displacement: Not many people have heard of Empty Sky, except for Americans (it was released in the US in 1975). His self-titled album is often considered his debut although it was his second album.
• Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped: "American Triangle", about the real-life murder of Matthew Shepard, who was beaten and left to die for being gay.

'Western skies' don't make it right
'Home of the brave' don't make no sense
I've seen a scarecrow wrapped in wire
Left to die on a high ridge fence
It's a cold, cold wind
It's a cold, cold wind
It's a cold wind blowing, Wyoming