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By 1976, Elton John was the best-selling recording artist & the highest-grossing touring act in the world. With seven #1 albums in a row & a reputation as a riveting piano-pounding performer, the former Reggie Dwight had gone with dazzling speed from the London suburbs to the pinnacles of rock stardom, his songs never leaving the charts, his sold-out shows packed with adoring fans. Then he released Blue Moves, & it all came crashing down.
Was the commercially disappointing & poorly reviewed double album to blame? Can one album shoot down a star? No, argues Matthew Restall; Blue Moves is a four-sided masterpiece, as fantastic as Captain Fantastic, as colorful as Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, a showcase for the three elements—piano-playing troubadour, full orchestra, rock band—with which Elton John & his collaborators redirected the evolution of popular music.
Instead, both album & career were derailed by a perfect storm of circumstances: Elton’s decisions to stop touring & start his own label; the turbulent shiftings of popular culture in the punk era; the minefield of attitudes towards celebrity & sexuality. The closer we get to Blue Moves, the better we understand the world into which it was born—& vice versa. Might that be true of all albums?