Complete Thom Bell Session

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Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Bell was one of 10 children of Anna and Leroy Bell, with Jamaican antecedents on his mother’s side, and moved to Philadelphia as a child. Anna, who worked as a stenographer, was a pianist, and Leroy, who owned a fish market and a restaurant, played accordion and Hawaiian guitar. A December 2008 interview with Bell featured on the Philly Soul box set, Love Train, stated he would soon compose a piece for the Philadelphia Orchestra. Past Orchestra members played in MFSB, the house band who played on many Bell productions.

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In1967, he was introduced to a local group called The Delfonics, and produced two singles for them the recording label, Moonglow. [2] Bell brought a mellifluous, hypnotic haut en couleur style to soul music, and soon his production talents yielded several big hits for the Delfonics on the Philly Groove label, run by their manager Stan Watson. [2] These releases included " La-La (Means I Love You)" and " Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)," [12] the latter of which was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1970. Elton is shown to have dated a landlady named Arabella, but he actually dated a secretary named Linda Hannon (née Woodrow) for two years, and was engaged to her in 1969. John ended up sinking into a suicidal depression due to stress faced with the prospect of living a domestic life in the suburbs, and attempted to kill himself in his kitchen from inert gas asphyxiation, but failed to do so (leaving the kitchen windows open, and being found by Bernie Taupin). Less than a month before the wedding, John suddenly broke off their engagement on the advice of Long John Baldry. Elton and Taupin ended up writing the song " Someone Saved My Life Tonight" based on the failed engagement and Baldry's advice. [86] [81] Hannon revealed her disappointment for not being mentioned in the film. [87]Thom Bell: Philadelphia soul pioneer dies at 79". BBC News. December 23, 2022 . Retrieved December 26, 2022. a b "Washington, U.S., Marriage Records, 1854-2013 for Thomas Randoloph Bell". Olympia, Washington: Washington State Archives. 2012 . Retrieved December 30, 2022– via Ancestry.com.

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years of eltonjohnallsongslist: The Story Behind "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" ". 19 November 2007. Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell and Richard Madden (left to right) play Elton John, Bernie Taupin and John Reid, respectively. a b c d e f g h i j Colin Larkin, ed. (1997). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Conciseed.). Virgin Books. p.117. ISBN 1-85227-745-9. Yang, Rachel (11 November 2019). "People's Choice Awards 2019 full list of winners". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved 27 November 2019. The epilogue notes that Elton has been sober for over 28 years. He remains good friends and song-writing partners with Bernie and is happily married to David Furnish, with whom he has two children.

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Elton's half-brother Geoff Dwight disputed the characterization of John's father, Stanley Dwight, stating, "My dad was kind and gentle. He spoke his mind but encouraged us all, including Elton, to do what we were good at. As a boy, when he started supporting Watford, it was my father who took him to the matches." [97] In a previous 2010 interview, Geoff recalled, "When I was growing up, Elton was always there and we had a lot of fun on family holidays and things like that". [81] John's stepmother, Edna, told biographer Philip Norman for 2001's Sir Elton: The Definitive Biography that "Stanley's been made out as an overbearing monster. But it's just not true. He was a lovely man, a good father, and a loving husband." She added that, far from discouraging his son's musical talent, Stanley bought him a piano in 1963, showing Norman the receipt. [81] He also wrote a letter to congratulate Elton on winning a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music. For me at least, that should be the way to list things – it's the same as the Guinness British Hit Singles books' method, which was ideal: remixes, rerecordings and straight reissues got separate listings. They used to list all re-entries separately as well, but dropped that circa 2000 for space reasons, which was fair enough.Paramount, 'Bait', Picturehouse win big at Screen Awards 2019". Variety. 29 November 2019 . Retrieved 30 November 2019. The Complete Thom Bell Sessions brings together the complete recording session by Elton John and producer Thom Bell onto one album. Released in 1989 by MCA Records, the album is composed of the material previously released in 1979 as well as the songs that were recorded at the original session but had then gone unreleased. Two of the "new" songs were co-written by John - "Nice and Slow" was co-written with Thom Bell and longtime writing partner Bernie Taupin, and "Shine on Through" with lyricist Gary Osborne. Because the recordings were shelved at the time, the latter was re-recorded and included on John's 1978 LP, A Single Man.

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a b c Friskics-Warren, Bill (December 24, 2022). "Thom Bell, a Force Behind the Philadelphia Soul Sound, Dies at 79". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved December 26, 2022. a b c d e Stein, Ellin (29 May 2019). "What's Fact and What's Fiction in the Elton John Biopic". Slate. I'm Still Standing": Elton John's classic video featured leather boys, mimes & kissing clowns". Archived from the original on 30 July 2019 . Retrieved 24 July 2019.McNary, Dave (11 November 2019). " 'Joker,' 'Game of Thrones' Lead Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Nominations". Variety . Retrieved 11 November 2019. This article was amended on 23 March 2023. An earlier version said that Thom Bell was born in Philadelphia. In fact, he moved there as a child after being born in Kingston, Jamaica. World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 [database on-line], Leroy Bell". St. Louis, Missouri: National Archives. 2011 . Retrieved December 24, 2022– via Ancestry.com. Greene, Andy (22 August 2018). "Nigel Olsson Reflects on 50 Years of Playing Drums for Elton John". Rolling Stone. Though not noted on the CD, the mixes of "Are You Ready for Love," "Mama Can't Buy You Love" and "Three Way Love Affair" are not the Elton and Clive Frank remixes from 1979, but the original 1977 Thom Bell mixes. "Are You Ready for Love," for example, now includes Bobby Smith and John Edwards of The Spinners singing the second verse instead of Elton, among other more subtle differences. The original EP remixes of the songs would later re-surface on the 'CD2' edition of Elton's 1992 single for " The Last Song"; [4] an edited version of the remix of "Are You Ready for Love" would be re-released as a single in 2003, and went on to hit #1 on the UK and US Dance charts.