BABEL’S ON FIRE Ever since I purchased your monthly containing a review of Elton’s new disc, there is one point I have been mulling over. How can “Tower of Babel” be “certainly” about the death of Robbie McIntosh, when he died in September, and Elton and Bernie composed the songs for Captain Fantastic in July, while on a cruise?
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BABEL’S ON FIRE
Ever since I purchased your monthly containing a review of Elton’s new disc, there is one point I have been mulling over. How can “Tower of Babel” be “certainly” about the death of Robbie McIntosh, when he died in September, and Elton and Bernie composed the songs for Captain Fantastic in July, while on a cruise? It raises questions, such as “Gan1 Taupin foresee the future?,” “Do I have my facts wrong?,” and, as someone less delicate than I would put it, “How the fuck does Wayne Robins get the authority to say what a song is ‘certainly’ about when he can’t even get the lyrics straight?” However, I would never say something as coarse as that.
Insincerely yours,
Esmerela Tittarelli
Cockshire, Middlingsex
(“Can’t you take a joke?”—Wayne)
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