Elton John Rock's Captain Fantastic

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"Watford has brought me back down to earth," he says. "I love it as much as music itself, and that's a lot to say. It's like erasing five or six years of my life, and here I am as if nothing had happened." There is something as innocent and touching in that statement as there is in a good pop lyric. Even if, in the frenetic pop world, Elton John is never able fully to establish his ties between present and past, his effort creates another point of contact between artist and audience. Or, as he and Bernie Taupin put it at the end of Captain Fantastic:

There's treasure children always seek

to find

And just like us You must have had A Once Upon a Time.