> > How is it that I've never known this? > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COj1gz3MY6o&feature=related > > > > Just skip to 1:30 unless you are into the European 70's bandstand > > One time appearance. Played on one other song too. > > > Not even sure of his purpose as you can't hear a lick of piano. Maybe Sir Eltons > piano was tuned to sound like a violin? That would seem more plausible than a silent > piano and an invisible strings section.
"Lick of piano" at 3:53 and 4:53. Something only the great and powerful Sir could handle. No one else would lick a piano so vigorously.