Someone Saved My Life Tonight Someone Saved My Life Tonight "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" is an Elton John song from his album "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy." The song concludes side one of the album's narrative, chronicling the early history of John and lyricist, Bernie Taupin, and their struggles to find their place within the music industry. When released as the album's only single in 1975, it was the first to ever enter at the highest position in the history of music on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and entered the top 25 on the UK Singles Chart. In the U.S., it was
Tripping the Live Fantastic his recent hit album, "Flowers in the Dirt", while also including some unique covers. Interspersed throughout are occasional soundcheck recordings as well. The title is an allusion to the phrase "tripping the light fantastic", meaning to dance or move to musical accompaniment, originally from the poem "L'Allegro" by John Milton. Although he had reversed the Lennon–McCartney credits on "Wings over America" in 1976, McCartney left the credits for his Beatles songs on "Tripping the Live Fantastic" in their original form. The album produced a few singles that contained live B-sides from the world tour. These B-sides were songs that were