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Meet the Beatle: A Guide to Ringo Starr's Solo Career in 20 SongsĮlton didn’t see it as a single and fought with MCA when they tried to release it. The whole thing is very weird.”įlashback: Tina Turner Covers Dolly Parton, Kris Kristofferson on Debut Solo Album

The audience sounds were taken from a show we did at the Royal Festival Hall years earlier.

“I knew it had to be an off-the-wall type song,” he told Rolling Stone, “an R&B-ish kind of sound or a funky sound. “I saw Bennie and the Jets as a sort of proto-sci-fi punk band,” he told Rolling Stone in 2014, “fronted by an androgynous woman, who looks like something out of a Helmut Newton photograph.” Elton first saw the lyrics while writing songs for Goodbye Yellow Brick Road in 1973. Like the vast majority of Elton John songs, “Bennie and the Jets” began as a lyric by Bernie Taupin. All of this is told from the perspective of a crazed fan talking to her friends Candy and Ronnie about the band. And all this time later, we still know precious little about the fictional rock band at the center of the song other than the fact that lead singer Bennie has electric boots and a mohair suit, and her “weird and wonderful” group the Jets seem like some sort of glam outfit.

Hey kids, shake it loose together The spotlight's hitting something That has known to change the weather We'll kill the fatted calf tonight, so stick around You're gonna hear electric music, solid walls of sound Say, Candy and Ronnie have you seen them yet Oh, but they're so spaced out, B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets Oh, but they're weird and they're wonderful Oh Bennie, she's really keen She's got electric boots, a mohair suit You know I read it in a magazine Oh, B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets Hey kids, plug into the faithless Maybe you're blinded But Bennie makes them ageless We shall survive, let us take ourselves along Where we fight our parents out in the streets To find who's right and who's wrong Say, Candy and Ronnie have you seen them yet Oh, but they're so spaced out, B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets Oh, but they're weird and they're wonderful Oh Bennie, she's really keen She's got electric boots, a mohair suit You know I read it in a magazine Oh, B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets (Repeat) B-B-B-Bennie, Bennie., Bennie and the Jets Bennie.Forty-five years ago this week, Elton took “Bennie and the Jets” to Number One on the Hot 100.