Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy Singles chart), is a semi-autobiographical story about John's disastrous engagement to Linda Woodrow, and his related 1968 suicide attempt. The "Someone" refers to Long John Baldry, who convinced him to break off the engagement rather than ruin his music career for an unhappy marriage. It was viewed by "Rolling Stone" writer Jon Landau as the best track on the album: "As long as Elton John can bring forth one performance per album on the order of 'Someone Saved My Life Tonight', the chance remains that he will become something more than the great entertainer he already is and go on
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