Billie Jean King once that if you want to be the best, you must never let anyone, anyone, know what you really feel. You see, she told me, they can't hurt you if they don't know. Concerning the qualities of a champion tennis player, King said, King's friend Elton John wrote the song “Philadelphia Freedom”, a nod to her World TeamTennis team, for King. Released New Year's Day 1975, became a number 1 hit. Charles M. Schulz, creator of the "Peanuts" comic strip, was an admirer and close friend. Schulz referred to King several times in "Peanuts" and used the comic strip to
Belfast (Elton John song) the release of "Belfast" (single edit) was scrapped several weeks before release because Island Records, Elton John's U.S. distribution company, objected to, in its words, the traditional Irish "flavour" of the song and interpreted it as having both religious and antiwar-related undertones. The album version contains a segue from "Believe" to "Belfast". The unreleased single edit of "Belfast" contains an instrumental outro not found in the album version. Both the single edit of "Belfast" and its B-side "Basque", which dates back to 1990, remain officially unreleased, but the songs are circulating amongst the Elton John tape trading community. Belfast (Elton