''Rocket Man'' by Elton John Limited Edition Prints of Original Painting Original it poses a series of

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Immediate Records released ‘Out of Time’ on 17 June 1966

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which deemed the song was too far removed from "normal" society for its listeners

''Rocket Man'' by Elton John Limited Edition Prints of Original Painting Original it poses a series ofRocket Man composed by Elton John and Bernie Taupin was first released on 17 April 1972 in the US as the lead single to John's album Honky Chteau. It made No. 2 in the U. K. and No. 6 on the Billboard Top 100. The song was inspired by Taupin's sighting of either a shooting star or a distant aeroplane. And by the short story "The Rocket Man" in The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury, and echoes the theme of David Bowie's 1969 song Space Oddity (both