Rocket Man (song)
Rocket Man (I Think It 's Going to Be a Long, Long Time) (English for " Rocket Man ( I think it will last a long, long time) ") is a book written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin song. It became famous in the first version of Elton John on the album Honky Château of 1972. Was coupled in the same year as a single and reached number 2 in the UK in the charts. The song refers in part to the short story, The Rocket Man Ray Bradbury's book in The Illustrated Man.
The play initially seems the emotions of an astronaut on the evening before his departure to describe, but the words at the end of the song " And all this science I do not understand, it's just my job five days a week, a rocket man, a rocket man, " can also be further room for interpretation, for example, the feelings of an average employee.
Musically Rocket Man will be referred to as a pop ballad that (as in many recordings Elton John ) is determined primarily at the beginning of a piano. At the center of the piece also add some synthesizer sounds are added.
In the top 500 list of the best songs of all time the magazine Rolling Stone ranked Rocket Man at No. 245
In 1962, there was already a homonymous song by the Spotnicks, but this is no relation.
References from music, film and television
In the TV series Nip / Tuck, the song in the first season, episode 10 ( Adelle Coffin ) was used as background music for a poignant scene in Eureka the song is at the end of the last ( 20th ) episode ( A Giant Leap ) of the fourth season to hear a cover version.
In the series Californication, a cover version of the piece of My Morning Jacket played in the pilot episode in a retrospective scene, as well as the 2003 released version Rocket Man 03 at the end of the third season. In the movie The Astronaut Farmer the song is used at the end of the film. In the TV series Numb3rs the song in season three, episode 11 ( Dangerous chat), used as background music in saying goodbye to Larry Fleinhardt who flies into space.
In the series My Name is Earl ( Season 4, Episode 20 ) a cover version of the band Puscifer is used as Earl's list leads him to the NASA Space Academy.
In the series The Big Bang Theory ( Season 5, Episode 15) Howard Wolowitz tries to get the astronaut nickname Rocket Man. Therefore he plays this song as a ringtone of his mobile phone off while he holds a video conference via Skype with Michael James Massimino. When he returns from the ISS, he sits in a cafe and later sings the song itself ( Season 6, Episode 4).
A spoken-word interpretation of the song by William Shatner at the awards ceremony for the science fiction film award Saturn Award in 1978 was subsequently often satirizes, among other things, from the animated television series Family Guy, Freakazoid! and Futurama, as well as in an episode of the late-night show Late Night with David Letterman. In the movie The Rock - rock the decision of the protagonist holds (played by Nicolas Cage) a soldier with a conversation about the song on so long until it is faced with a rocket launcher and in the words of the rocket from "You're the Rocketman! " is flung of the window.
2012 Volkswagen use the often misunderstood song location "burning out his fuse up here alone" in a TV commercial for the Passat to draw attention to the fact built sound system.
The Irish rock group U2 used the song as outro during his U2 360 ° Tour.