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The True Story Behind Elton John's Your Song

"Your Song" was written by Elton John's ever-present collaborator, Bernie Taupin. According to Biography, the pair met in 1967, having both responded to an NME Magazine appeal to songwriters and singers. Taupin, of course, applied as the former and John as the latter, and their combined talents made them a formidable duo.

"Your Song" is an emotionally-charged and poignant love song, clearly told from the perspective of a nervous and inexperienced person new to the incredible power of love. You might think, then, that the young Taupin was expressing some new and overwhelming feelings of his own. According to the man himself, though, this is not the case. In a blog post in which he aimed to "correct the massive amount of misinformation regarding how the lyrics to 'Your Song' were originally conceived," he stated that the true story behind the Elton John classic is far simpler than that (via Yahoo).

"I scribbled ... on a lined notepad at the kitchen table of Elton's mother's apartment in the London suburb of Northwood Hills, breakfast time sometime in 1969," he wrote. "That's it. Plain and simple." Taupin went on to suggest that John seemed to think that the song was written with somebody specific in mind, but the writer insists that it wasn't.

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Sebrina Pilcher

Update: 2024-05-07