Great Songs Used In Non Musical Movies Almost Famous Elton John Tiny Dancer

Preston, England
December 11, 2018 5:00pm CST
Almost Famous is a fantastic movie about music, though it has relatively little music in it and it boasts a superb background music soundtrack. It is loosely based on the film’s writer / director Cameron Crowe’s adventures as a teenager who lied about his age to carve a career touring with the big rock band of the 1970’s writing of his adventures in Rolling Stone magazine. The film ties him to a fictional group called Stillwater, based closely on The Allman Brothers. In a pivotal moment, after a night of despair and heavy drug taking brings everyone down at a party, the tour party get back on the bus and back on the road. As they travel, Elton John’s Tiny Dancer plays on the bus radio. One by one, the travellers join in and their moods lighten. It is a really magical sing-a-long sequence after the heavy realistic paranoia and homesickness before it. The song was written by Bernie Taupin in 1971 after he first travelled from the UK to California. I always liked the song but my love of it went through the roof after seeing its use in this movie. The song on Youtube Arthur Chappell
Részlet a Majdnem híres címu filmbol. A banda a turnébuszban énekli Elton John - Tiny Dancer címu dalát.
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@FourWalls (61308)
• United States
12 Dec 18
I love that song, too. Bernie wrote that about his first wife.
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• Preston, England
12 Dec 18
@FourWalls Taupin actually dismisses that claim. Though the song is dedicated to his first wife, he says its inspiration was from meeting and seeing women in performances on his first visitto California
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@FourWalls (61308)
• United States
12 Dec 18
@arthurchappell -- isn't that interesting. For years (Elton was my teenybopper idol) that was "the story." Of course, it's like Toto's "Rosanna:" everyone thinks it's about Rosanne Arquette, and why spoil a good rumor. [em[lol[/em]
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• Preston, England
13 Dec 18
@FourWalls it is still a great story
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@RasmaSandra (72494)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
12 Dec 18
Thanks for sharing. Like the song. Never heard this before.
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• Preston, England
12 Dec 18
it is a great song
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@LadyDuck (454862)
• Switzerland
12 Dec 18
I cannot remember this song, but I listened and it's very good.
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@xander6464 (40696)
• Wapello, Iowa
11 Dec 18
I love that movie, too. It's been a long time. I need to see it again.
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@JudyEv (323662)
• Rockingham, Australia
12 Dec 18
I didn't know this one. Thanks for the link.
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• Preston, England
13 Dec 18
@JudyEv it is a great song and a great film
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@Courage7 (19635)
• United States
12 Dec 18
Oo thanks Arthur what a gem. Yes that song Tiny Dancer is so moving and really gets to my heart too. I will have to bookmark this one now.
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