Definitely not part of the original 1973 lyrics.
#Freddy spaghetti benny and the jets movie
James Murphy from Spring TexasThe movie was Aloha Bobby and Rose 1973.
Have to say this is one of EJ's best songs bar none, this was on HUGE radio rotation when i was a kid in the late 70's
It's no secret that both Elton John and Bernie Taupin were heavy cocaine users at that point in time. Notice also that when Elton John says "Jetssssssssssss" in the chorus the "ssss" sound is exaggerated because it makes a hissing sound like the sound of cocaine being snorted. After all, it's a song about excess, and snorting coke with a hundred dollar bill screams excess. So "Bennie and the Jets" is a reference to snorting cocaine with a $100 bill. The "Jets" are lines of cocaine, since lines of cocaine look like jet contrails in the sky. "Bennie"refers to Ben Franklin, who is the person on the $100 bill. On a deeper level it's about the excesses of the music industry in the 70's with outrageous costumes, wild parties, and rampant drug use. Jd from UsaOn the surface it's about a band named "Bennie and the Jets" which gives over-the-top performances.So, it ended up being a combination of the ideas I'd started with, with some ideas he had on top." Go ahead.' And he just arranged time to come into the studio and sing it.Īnd then, he made some suggestions and changed some stuff and added some brilliant background parts and so on. He plugged in his in-ear monitors into my laptop and I played it to him and he said, 'I love it. So, we sat backstage and listened to it for the first time. I ended up meeting with him backstage at an Alicia Keys concert he was opening, and I said, 'Did you ever get a chance to listen to the demo I sent you?' He said, 'No, I'm sorry, I don't know what happened to it.' In a Songfacts interview with Asher, he explained: "There was a period when I was hardly in touch with Miguel. Getting Miguel in the studio to record it proved challenging though. Elton John had Peter Asher produce the nine cover versions, which also included Ed Sheeran's take on " Candle In The Wind" and Fall Out Boy's " Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)." Asher, who produced the most successful albums by James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt, put the track together based on the sound of Miguel's album Kaleidoscope Dream. Miguel covered this as part of the 40th edition expanded reissue of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road in 2014, with Wale contributing vocals. Elton was especially proud of this, as he was influenced by many black musicians. This was also a hit on the US R&B charts, known at the time as the "Black" charts. In fact, I can't help but believe that that Robert Palmer video with all the identical models somehow paid a little lip service to The Jets." Either way, it was definitely something that was totally formed as a concept, and something that could have morphed into any number of populist items. I'm not sure if it came to me in a dream or was some way the subconscious of effect of watching Kubrick on drugs. Said Taupin: "I'd always had this wacky science fiction idea about a futuristic rock and roll band of androids fronted by some androgynous kind of Helmut Newton style beauty, which was depicted to little great effect on the Yellow Brick Road album cover. Comic books, movies, and the German photographer Helmut Newton were some of the influences Bernie Taupin threw into the pot when writing the lyrics to this song.
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