Re: elton and bernie

[M & J Abusheery <Mika@ici.net>]

len bullard wrote:
> 
> >I doubt that this is true because Bernie writes the lyrics and I don't
> >think he could write lyrics to music he had never heard.
> 
> >jOHN
> 
> umm.. minor point: in all the interviews
> i've seen or read about their work together,
> they've said that IS how they work.  Bernie
> writes the lyrics first.  That is how
> many songwriting teams work.  It keeps
> the words from being chained to the
> meter of the instrumentation and
> elton likes the challenge.
> 
> len

Exactly, hence the name of the tribute album "Two Rooms".  Bernie would
write the lyrics in one room and then give them to Elton in another
room.  I think there was something about this in the liner notes of the
CD.

-Jennifer