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
Dirt Nasty (album) Dirt Nasty (album) Dirt Nasty is the self-titled debut album by artist Dirt Nasty, also known as Simon Rex. Dirt Nasty was released by Shoot To Kill Music in association with Myspace Records. The album's most popular track was "1980," which was distributed on MySpace and iTunes. Dirt Nasty is credited as the impetus behind Mickey Avalon's personal rediscovery of, and subsequent success in, hip hop. Mickey Avalon's song "My Dick" (featuring Dirt Nasty and Andre Legacy) was featured in the 2008 movie "Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay". The song "1980" starts off with the phrase "What happened