Hearing the song every morning, I began imagining that cool girl named Bennie who wore “electric boots and a mohair suit,” leading her band toward electric music and solid walls of sound. “BATJ” was first featured on John’s double-disc album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and was released as a single in February 1974. WABC morning jock Harry Harrison played the Top-40 jams by Chicago, Stevie Wonder, Steely Dan, and countless others that nudged me toward a pop appreciation that later became an obsession. A dark wooden box with scratches on top, it was a gift from my stepfather, Carlos, who more than likely bought it hot in the barber shop where he cut hair. The radio was a few feet away on an end table in the living room. Catherine of Genoa school uniform: white shirt, blue tie, and dark slacks.
At eleven years old, I sat in the corner chair in the kitchen dressed in my St. “Not another one,” I sighed, reaching into my jeans pocket to retrieve my phone.Ĭhecking the news reports, I scrolled through the entertainment headlines as my mind drifted back to those 1974 WABC mornings when “Bennie and the Jets” was served daily alongside my sugary cereal or toasted waffles. With so many of my musical idols-Cynthia Robinson, David Bowie, Prince, George Michael, Maurice White-dying in the last few years, it was possible that seventy-year-old Sir Elton would be the next star strutting through the pearly gates of Pop Star Heaven. Back in April, it was reported that Elton was canceling tour dates because of a “harmful and unusual bacterial infection” he’d caught in South America.
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Mark’s Place recently, a car drove past blasting Elton John’s 1974 single “Bennie and the Jets.” Stopping at the red light, the middle-aged driver sang loudly and pretended that the steering wheel was a piano as I wondered if my used-to-be-favorite singer was dead.
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