RE: elton and bernie

[John Walker <jdwalker@post.cis.smu.edu>]

I think it just depends.  Different songwriters are going to work together however the muse sees fit!

For example, I usually write the music first and throw it over the wall to my partner-in-crime, who does her magic and then throws it back.  When she works with other writers, sometimes she throws out a lyric and they'll write the music around that.  It just depends on the situation.  Lyrics can inspire music as easily as music can inspire lyrics.


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-----Original Message-----
From:	len bullard [SMTP:cbullard@hiwaay.net]
Sent:	Thursday, September 18, 1997 11:07 PM
To:	love-hounds@gryphon.com
Subject:	elton and bernie

>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