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British songwriter

Bernie Taupin

CBE
Taupin attending the premiere of The Union at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival

Taupin attention the premiere of The Marriage at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival
Background information
Birth name Bernard John Taupin
Born (1950-05-22) 22 May 1950 (age 71)
Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England
Origin London, England[1]
Genres
  • Rock
  • popular
  • country
Occupation(due south)
  • Songwriter
  • lyricist
  • visual creative person
Years agile 1967–nowadays
Labels Island

Musical creative person

Bernard John Taupin CBE (born 22 May 1950)[2] is an English songwriter. He is best known for his long-term collaboration with musician Elton John, a songwriting partnership that is one of the well-nigh successful in history. Taupin has written the lyrics for most of John's songs.[three]

In 1967, Taupin answered an advertising in the music paper New Musical Express placed by Freedom Records, a company that was seeking new songwriters.[1] John responded to the same advertisement and they were brought together, collaborating on many albums since.[1] [four] Taupin and John were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1992.[v]

Birth and childhood [edit]

Taupin was built-in at Flatters House, a farmhouse located between the village of Anwick and the town of Sleaford, in the southern part of Lincolnshire, England, the son of Daphne (née Cort) and Robert Taupin.[six] [7] His paternal grandparents were French. Taupin's father was educated in Dijon and was employed every bit a stockman by a large farm estate near the boondocks of Market Rasen. Taupin's mother worked equally a nanny, having previously lived in Switzerland.[8] The family afterwards moved to Rowston Manor, a significant pace up from Flatters farmhouse, which had no electricity.[eight] [9]

Taupin's father decided to endeavour independent farming, and the family unit moved to the run-down Maltkiln Farm[x] in the north-Lincolnshire village of Owmby-past-Spital. Taupin's xi-year-younger brother, Kit, was born at that place.[8] [9]

Unlike his older brother, Tony, who attended a grammer school (selective secondary school), Taupin was non a diligent student, although he showed an early flair for writing. At historic period 15, he left schoolhouse and started work as a trainee in the impress room of the local newspaper, The Lincolnshire Standard, with aspirations of becoming a journalist.[11] Taupin soon left that job, and spent the residue of his teenage years hanging out with friends, hitchhiking the country roads to attend youth guild dances in the surrounding villages, playing snooker in the Aston Arms Pub[12] in Market place Rasen and drinking. Taupin had worked at several part-fourth dimension jobs when, at age 17, he answered the advertizement that eventually led to his collaboration with Elton John.[8] [9]

Early on influences [edit]

Taupin's female parent had studied French literature and his maternal granddad John Leonard Palchett "Poppy" Cort was a classics teacher and graduate of the Academy of Cambridge.[8] They instilled in him an appreciation for nature and literature and narrative poetry, both of which influenced his early lyrics.[8] [9]

Collaboration with Elton John [edit]

In 1967, Taupin answered an advertisement for talent that was placed in the New Musical Limited by Liberty Records A&R human being Ray Williams. Elton John answered the same advert. Neither Taupin nor John passed the audition for Freedom Records. Elton told the homo behind the desk that he could not write lyrics, so the homo handed Elton a sealed envelope from the pile of people submitting lyrics, which he opened on the London Underground ride home. The envelope contained poems by Taupin.[13]

The duo have collaborated on more thirty albums to date. The team took some time off from each other for a while between 1977 and 1979, while Taupin worked with other songwriters, including Alice Cooper, and John worked with other lyricists, including Gary Osborne and Tom Robinson. (The 1978 single-only A side "Ego" was their just collaboration of notation during the period, although John/Taupin B-sides such as "Lovesick" and "I Cry at Nighttime" were issued with the respective singles "Song for Guy" and "Role-time Love" from the album A Single Human.)

John and Taupin resumed writing together on an occasional ground in 1980, with Taupin contributing lyrics to several songs on albums such equally The Fob, 21 at 33 and Spring Up!. However, by 1983's Too Depression for Zilch, the ii renewed their partnership on a full-time footing and from that point forward Taupin was again John's chief lyricist for his solo releases. John often works with other lyricists on specific theatrical or moving-picture show projects such every bit 1994's The Lion King and 2000's Aida, both of which featured lyrics past Tim Rice, and 2005's Billy Elliot, which has script and lyrics by the original film's screenwriter, Lee Hall. Hall too wrote the screenplay for Elton John biopic Rocketman, in which Taupin features as a major character.

Taupin wrote the lyrics for "Rocket Man", "Levon", "Crocodile Rock", "Honky Cat", "Tiny Dancer", "Candle in the Wind", "Saturday Dark'due south Alright for Fighting", "Bennie and the Jets", "Goodbye Xanthous Brick Road", "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters", "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me", "The Bitch is Back", "Daniel", and 1970's "Your Song", their beginning hit. Hits in the 1980s include "I'm Still Standing", "I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues", "Sad Songs", and "Nikita." In the 1990s, Taupin and John had more than hits, including "The One", "Simple Life", "The Last Song", "Club at the End of the Street" and "Believe." In September 1997, Taupin rewrote the lyrics of "Candle in the Wind" for "Candle in the Current of air 1997", a tribute to the late Diana, Princess of Wales.

I thought information technology was very important to project it from a nation's standpoint. I wanted to get in sound similar a country singing information technology. From the first couple of lines I wrote [which began "Goodbye England's Rose"], the rest sort of fell into place.

Bernie Taupin on writing the lyrics
for "Candle in the Wind 1997"[14]

The 1991 film documentary Ii Rooms described the John/Taupin writing style, which involves Taupin writing the lyrics on his own and John then putting them to music, with no further interaction between the 2. The process is still fundamentally the same, with John composing to Taupin's words, but the two interact on songs far more today, with Taupin joining John in the studio every bit the songs are written and occasionally during recording sessions.

Taupin and John had their outset Broadway musical open in March 2006 with Lestat: The Musical. Taupin wrote lyrics for 10 songs (and an 11th completed non-album rail "Across the River Thames") for John's 2006 album The Captain & The Kid (sequel to Captain Fantastic and the Brown Clay Cowboy) and appeared on the cover with him for the beginning time marking their 40th anniversary of working together. ("Across the River Thames" was issued as an Cyberspace-only download as a bonus with certain editions of The Captain & the Kid.)

On 25 March 2007, Taupin made a surprise advent at John's 60th birthday celebration at Madison Square Garden, briefly discussing their twoscore-year songwriting partnership. Of Taupin's importance to their careers, every bit recorded on the Elton threescore – Live at Madison Square Garden DVD, John told the audition that without Taupin there probably would not be an 'Elton John' equally the public has come to know him. Taupin and John besides composed several songs for The Wedlock, a collaboration album between Elton and his longtime hero Leon Russell released in Oct 2010. They also collaborated on five original songs for the 2011 Miramax movie Gnomeo and Juliet, including the Golden Earth-nominated "Hello Hullo". Taupin and John's near-recent album collaboration is Wonderful Crazy Night, released in 2016.

In 2018, Taupin and John collaborated on two original songs for the animated film Sherlock Gnomes. In 2019, the movie Rocketman was released, containing an original song written past Taupin and John for the moving picture, "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again", which plays over the closing credits. The motion-picture show depicts the personal friendship of Taupin (played by Jamie Bell) and John during the 1970s and 1980s. They later won the Academy Award for Best Original Vocal for the song "(I'm Gonna) Dearest Me Over again".

Collaboration with other artists [edit]

In addition to writing for Elton John, Taupin has also written lyrics for utilise by other composers, with notable successes including "We Built This City", which was recorded past Starship, and "These Dreams," recorded by Eye (both of which were collaborations with English composer/musician Martin Page). In 1978, he co-wrote the album From the Within with Alice Cooper.

Taupin has also produced American Gothic for vocalizer-songwriter David Ackles. Released in 1972, information technology did not enjoy big sales, simply the album was highly acclaimed past music critics in the US and UK. The influential British music critic Derek Jewell of the Britain Sunday Times described the album equally being "the Sgt. Pepper of folk." Of Ackles's iv albums, it was the only i recorded in England rather than in the The states. Taupin and Ackles had become acquainted when Ackles was selected to be the co-headlining act for Elton John's 1970 American debut at the Troubadour in Los Angeles. Taupin was mentioned specifically as being one of the reasons American Gothic was selected by the writers and editors for inclusion in the book, 1001 Albums You Must Hear Earlier You Die. He too collaborated on the volume Burning Common cold with photographer Gary Bernstein.[15] In the late 1980s and early 1990s Taupin also collaborated with French American musician, Josquin Des Pres (20th century musician) on at to the lowest degree 13 songs in his collection that take been performed and recorded past artists worldwide.[xvi]

In 2002, Willie Nelson and Kid Rock recorded "Last Stand up in Open Country" for Nelson's anthology The Nifty Separate. The song was the title track of the first album from Taupin's band Farm Dogs (see below). Nelson's album included two other Taupin songs, "This Face up" and "Mendocino County Line". The latter, a duet between Nelson and Lee Ann Womack, was fabricated into a video and released as the anthology'south first single. The song won the 2003 Grammy for best vocal collaboration in state music. In 2004, he co-wrote Courtney Love's song "Uncool", from her 2004 debut solo album America's Sweetheart. In 2005, he co-wrote the title track to What I Actually Want For Christmas with Brian Wilson for his first seasonal album. In 2006, he won a Golden World Award for his lyrics to the song "A Love That Volition Never Abound Old" from the picture show Brokeback Mount. The music of the song was composed by Argentine producer and songwriter Gustavo Santaolalla.

Works as a performer [edit]

Solo albums [edit]

  • 1971 – Taupin
  • 1980 – He Who Rides the Tiger [11]
  • 1987 – Tribe[11]

With Farm Dogs [edit]

  • 1996 – Last Stand in Open Country
  • 1998 – Immigrant Sons

In 1971, Taupin recorded a spoken-word album titled Taupin, in which he recites some of his early poems confronting a groundwork of impromptu, sitar-heavy music created by some members of Elton'southward band, including Davey Johnstone and Caleb Quaye. Side ane, "Kid", contains poems nigh his early childhood in southern Lincolnshire. The starting time verse form, "The Greatest Discovery," which looks at his nativity from the perspective of his older brother Tony, was besides set to music past Elton John and included on Elton'south eponymous second album, Elton John. At that place are poems most Taupin's first two childhood homes, Flatters and Rowston Manor, and others nearly his relationship with his brother and grandfather. Side Two includes a variety of poems of varying obscurity, from a marionette telling her own story to a rat catcher who falls victim to his prey.[17] Taupin stated in interviews that he was not pleased with the album.[18]

In 1980, Taupin recorded his beginning album as a singer, He Who Rides the Tiger. The album failed to make a dent in the charts. Taupin later suggested in interviews that he did not have the creative command he would have liked over the album. In 1987, he recorded another album, Tribe. The songs were co-written with Martin Folio. "Citizen Jane" and "Friend of the Flag" were released as singles. Videos of both singles featured Rene Russo, the sister of Toni, his wife at that time.

In 1996, Taupin formed a band called Farm Dogs,[nineteen] whose two albums were conscious (and successful) throwbacks to the grittier, earthier sound of Tumbleweed Connection. While Taupin wrote the lyrics, the music was a collaborative effort among the band members. Their first album, 1996's Terminal Stand in Open Country, received critical praise only little airplay. The title track was later recorded past Willie Nelson and Kid Rock for Nelson'due south 2002 anthology The Slap-up Divide. In 1998, Subcontract Dogs released its second and final album, Immigrant Sons. The album was unsuccessful despite a tour of small-scale clubs beyond America.

Non-musical projects [edit]

In 1973, Taupin collected all his lyrics up through the Cheerio Yellow Brick Road album into a book, Bernie Taupin: The I Who Writes the Words for Elton John. In add-on to the lyrics from the albums, this book contained the lyrics to all the single B-sides, various rarities, and Taupin's 1970 spoken-give-and-take album. The songs are illustrated by various artists, friends, and celebrity guests such as John Lennon and Joni Mitchell. The book is in blackness & white except for the cover.

In 1977, Taupin collaborated with stone photographer David Nutter on It'south A Picayune Fleck Funny, adding text and helping relate Elton John's year-long Louder Than Concorde Bout. The at present-collectible book was published in hard and soft cover editions past Penguin Books. It collects the better office of one twelvemonth's worth of personal adventures and memories of Elton and the band, aboard his private aeroplane, on the beaches of Barbados, at backstage gatherings and in some quieter off-stage moments with friends (including some famous faces that Elton and Bernie met and palled around with in their travels).

In 1978, Taupin as well appeared in an episode of The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, "The Hardy Boys & Nancy Drew Meet Dracula", singing backup to Shaun Cassidy. In 1988, Taupin published an autobiography of his childhood, A Cradle of Haloes: Sketches of a Childhood.[9] The book was released only in the United kingdom. It tells the tale of a childhood fuelled by fantasy in rural Lincolnshire in the 1950s and 1960s, ending in 1969 equally Taupin gets on the railroad train to seek his fortune in London.

In 1991, Taupin self-published a book of poems called The Devil at High Noon. In 1994, Taupin'southward lyrics upward through the Fabricated in England album were collected into a hardcover book, Elton John & Bernie Taupin: The Complete Lyrics, published by Hyperion. Even so, it does not announced that Taupin was intimately involved in this project, as it contains multiple misspellings and outright misrenderings of the lyrics. It is besides missing some of the rarities and B-sides found in the earlier collection. As with the 1973 collection, the songs are illustrated by diverse artists, this time in full colour throughout.[ citation needed ]

In 1992, Taupin was asked to produce a do good for AIDS Project Los Angeles. The event featured no songs written past the author, instead opening with an acoustic ready of performances of material called by the performers followed by selections from the musical West Side Story, called for its "timeless message of tolerance that is relevant to every decade."[20]

Bibliography [edit]

  • 1971 – The Songs of Elton John and Bernie Taupin (canvass music)[21]
  • 1973 – Bernie Taupin: The One Who Writes the Words for Elton John [22]
  • 1977 – Elton: It's a Little Bit Funny [23]
  • 1991 – Two Rooms: Elton John and Bernie Taupin

Visual art career [edit]

In addition to his music, much of his time is spent creating his visual art.[24] Attributing his passion for art to his mother, Daphne, Taupin began displaying and selling his original artwork in 2010. Consisting of big, mixed media, contemporary assemblages, the art has been shown and collected across the United States and Canada.[25]

Taupin's artwork has been seen at Art Miami, Fine art Southampton, the LA Art Fair, and in various galleries. His artwork oftentimes incorporates the American flag.[26]

Personal life [edit]

Taupin has been married four times, his first 3 marriages having concluded in divorce. His wives were: Maxine Feibelman (1971–76);[27] Toni Lynn Russo (1979–91), sister of actress Rene Russo; Stephanie Haymes Roven (1993–98), daughter of entertainers Dick Haymes and Fran Jeffries; and Heather Kidd (March 2004–present),[28] with whom he has two daughters, Charley Indiana and Georgey Devon.[28] Taupin moved to the United States from England in the mid-1970s and became a Usa citizen in 1990. He lives in Santa Barbara County, California.

Taupin was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to music.[29] [30]

See also [edit]

  • List of songs with lyrics by Bernie Taupin

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b c Billboard 4 October 1997, 30 Years of Music: Elton John with Bernie Taupin Billboard
  2. ^ Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Outset ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 2447. ISBN0-85112-939-0.
  3. ^ "Elton John and Bernie Taupin | Songwriters Hall of Fame". www.songhall.org . Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  4. ^ Bernie Taupin Biography Archived 18 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine Songwriters Hall of Fame
  5. ^ "Elton John & Bernie Taupin".
  6. ^ Buckley, David (xvi July 2007). Elton: The Biography. Chicago Review Press. ISBN978-1-55652-713-5 . Retrieved sixteen July 2020 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ "Flatters Farmhouse – On his Very Spot". Onthisveryspot.com. Archived from the original on thirty March 2009. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
  8. ^ a b c d e f Elton John, Philip Norman, Fireside, 1991
  9. ^ a b c d e A Cradle of Haloes, Bernie Taupin, Aurum Printing, 1988
  10. ^ "Maltkiln Subcontract (former site)". Onthisveryspot.com. Archived from the original on 18 March 2012. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
  11. ^ a b c Embley, Jochan (22 May 2020). "Bernie Taupin at 70: The man whose words made Elton John a star". Standard.co.uk . Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  12. ^ "Aston Arms Pub – On This Very Spot". Onthisveryspot.com. Archived from the original on 5 Dec 2008. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
  13. ^ Elton John. Elton John Takes Stephen Through His Unabridged Catalogue. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Effect occurs at 3:00. Archived from the original on 12 Dec 2021.
  14. ^ The songwriters idea book. Author'southward Digest Books p.103. fifteen October 1992. ISBN978-0-89879-519-6. I idea it was very of import to projection it from a nation's standpoint. I wanted to brand it sound like a country singing it. From the first couple of lines i wrote [which began "Cheerio England'southward Rose"], the rest sort of cruel into place.
  15. ^ "Photograph: Gary Bernstein". The Village Voice. 22 May 1978. p. 59. Retrieved fourteen March 2013.
  16. ^ Des Pres, Josquin; Taupin, Bernie. "His Music". Bernie Taupin Official.
  17. ^ Bernie Taupin: The Ane Who Writes the Words for Elton John, Bernie Taupin, Jonathan Cape, 1973
  18. ^ A Chat with Elton John and Bernie Taupin, Paul Gambaccini, Flash Books, 1974
  19. ^ "Farm Dogs". Farmdogs.com . Retrieved 16 April 2012.
  20. ^ Galbraith, Jane (18 November 1992). "Stars Turn Up The Power for AIDS Benefit". Newsday.
  21. ^ "The Songs Of Elton John And Bernie Taupin Volume, 1971 | Wolfgang's". Wolfgangs.com . Retrieved 26 September 2017.
  22. ^ Taupin, Bernie; Aldridge, Alan; Dempsey, Mike; John, Elton (1973). Bernie Taupin: The I Who Writes The Words For Elton John. Jonathan Cape Ltd. ISBN0-224-01236-three.
  23. ^ Taupin, Bernie (1977). Elton: Information technology'southward a Little Scrap Funny. Penguin Books. ISBN0-14-004680-1.
  24. ^ "Songwriter Bernie Taupin on His Paintings and the Harmony of Music and Fine art". Artspace . Retrieved 26 September 2017.
  25. ^ "Lyricist Bernie Taupin Opens Upward Most His True (Visual) Passion". Fastcompany.com. 27 September 2016. Retrieved 26 September 2017.
  26. ^ "Bernie Taupin Sets L.A. Gallery Showroom of American-Flag Fine art: "My Day Task Is Being an Creative person"". The Hollywood Reporter. vi June 2019. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  27. ^ "Market Rasen Today: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More". Archived from the original on eight December 2008. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  28. ^ a b "Bernie Taupin Recalls the Start of His Partnership with Elton John: 'Nosotros Were All Each Other Had'". PEOPLE.com . Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  29. ^ "No. 63571". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 2022. p. N27.
  30. ^ "New year Honours: Whitty, Van-Tam and Blair knighted, Lumley and Redgrave made dames". BBC News. January 2022.

External links [edit]

  • Spots related to Taupin'due south life and career Archived 3 November 2017 at the Wayback Machine
  • "Bernie Taupin: 'Lyricist? I call back of myself equally a storyteller'," The Telegraph, 16 September 2013

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