Legend STUTTERED Chorus of Song as a JOKE…The Mistake Made it a 70s CLASSIC! | Professor of Rock

Up next The Electric story of one of the 70s greatest masterpieces. Bennie and the Jets by Elton John. A song that was truly a happy accident… as Elton stuttered a word in the chorus and it became the best part of the song… along with some misheard lyrics that most have been singing incorrectly for years. It was a hodge podge of Glam rock and fantasy to create a song that Elton was pissed off at the label for releasing over a single that He thought would be the big hit. As you’ll find out next it just so happens that the label and the artist were both right. The story is next.

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Let’s go back to the 70s and relive one of the greatest songs ever. The cutting-edge rock group, Bennie and the Jets were weird…and wonderful…at least in the imagination of one of music’s most prolific lyricists….Bernie Taupin. Bernie’s vision for Bennie and the Jets was a futuristic, all-female band of automatons named “the Jets", with a striking lead singer named “Bennie” who commanded the stage- wearing electric boots, and a mohair suit.

The inspiration for the invention of "Bennie and the Jets" came from a melting pot of Bernie’s passions- comic books, movies, and the work of German photographer Helmut Newton.

Apparently, amidst all the incredible songs that Bernie wrote the words for, he always had, what he called a “wacky science fiction idea” swirling around in that genius mind of his, about creating a futuristic band fronted by some kind of Helmut Newton-styled beauty.

Bernie is not sure if the overall concept came to him in a dream, or a subconscious effect of reading comic books, or, maybe watching Stanley Kubrick’s revolutionary sci-fi picture 2001: A Space Odyssey: Expanding on the image of Bennie & the Jets, his fictional band, Bernie envisioned identical-looking females that captured David Bowie-like androgyny. In the late 60s, Bernie had a relationship with whom he considered a really hip girl, named Sally Bennington. She was the muse that shaped the character of “Bennie” when Bernie wrote the song.

Bernie Taupin’s lyricism is a beautiful adventure in eloquence and deep introspection. It’s completely unpredictable. His songwriting has an unorthodox quality to it, that defies the simplistic rules of song composition. In “Bennie and the Jets” he even turns a biblical idiom into a modern pop culture expression in the opening verse: “Well kill the fatted calf tonight…so, stick around."

The expression “kill the fatted calf” means to prepare a lavish celebration, or event, often to welcome someone back from a long absence. The phrase comes from the Biblical parable of the prodigal son, in which a father prepares a feast for his son- who has returned home after losing his fortune.