During our lifetime, the music we listen to and the musicians we admire have changed colors like the tropical chameleon.
Sometimes it happens slowly over years and decades or, like in the case of Elton John, it rocks our world overnight.
I thought I had seen it all when, after listening to my parents’ favorite Big Band tunes, witnessing the startling rise of Elvis Presley, and experiencing the British Invasion led by The Beatles, we would see the rapidly rising star in the form of this flamboyant and uniquely talented English singer, pianist and composer.
