Songoftheday 10/22/18 - There's a breakdown on the runway and the timeless flights are gone, I'm a year ahead of myself these days and I'm locomotive strong
from the album The One (1992)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #30 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 7
Today's song of the day is from Elton John, whose 1992 album The One had already scored two big pop hits in America with the top-ten title track "The One" and his Ryan White tribute "The Last Song", which hit the top-40 in the winter close of 1992. Also, the track "Runaway Train" with Eric Clapton, which was serviced to rock radio and appeared on the soundtrack to Lethal Weapon 3, climbed to #10 on Billboard magazine's Mainstream Rock radio chart and reached the top-40 all over Europe. The fourth and final single from the record would be the western-rock style "Simple Life". Written by Elton with longtime partner Bernie Taupin, the song had a feel like the 80s work of Don Henley and Bruce Hornsby, with vague lyrics about leaving the fast lane behind...
"Simple Life" became the third top-40 pop hit from The One in April of 1993. The song was a much bigger hit on "easy listening" radio, spending three weeks at #1 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary format chart. Internationally, the single took two weeks at #3 in Canada, while it just missed the top-40 in Elton's native UK at #44, and was a minor hit in Germany at #63.
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To promote the single, Elton sang live to track all by himself on Top Of The Pops in 1993..
And next up, live in concert in 1995...
Here he is from a show in Nashville in 1998...
Up tomorrow: Some big guys are solitary.
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