Stepney many Carry On films. Lionel Bart known for creating the book, music and lyrics to the production "Oliver!". Referenced in the Rolling Stones song, "Play with Fire", released in 1965. Stepney is used as an indicator of a character's descent from privilege. In Elton John's partly autobiographical album "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy", the song "Bitter Fingers" contains the lyrics "When I worked the good old pubs in Stepney", referring to his early days as a musician in and around London. In the Stephen Sondheim musical "Pacific Overtures", the song "Pretty Lady" is sung by three British sailors
Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy terms with failure—or trying desperately not to be one. We lived that story." John, Taupin and the band laboured harder and longer on the album than perhaps any previous record they'd ever done to that point. As opposed to the rather quick, almost factory-like process of writing and recording an album in a matter of a few days or at most a couple of weeks (as with "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"), the team spent the better part of a month off the road at Caribou Ranch Studios working on the recordings. Producer Gus Dudgeon was apparently also very satisfied with