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Elton John<\/a> wasn\u2019t exactly on for subtlety in any of his music. <\/p>\n Although there are a handful of songs that could touch people\u2019s hearts in a far more intimate way than the average songwriter, it\u2019s hard to think that the same person who came up with that song was the one who could wear some of the most outrageous outfits ever conceived by man when they went out onstage. But for all of the window dressing that John put on most of his songs, the reason why it worked so well was that he had so many people to follow in the footsteps of.<\/p>\n You have to remember that, before John was one of the most celebrated musicians in the pop sphere, he had already been considered one of the biggest pop fans ever. His infatuation with the charts bordered on obsession when he was a kid, and even to this day, he is still out there listening to the best music that he could find out in the wild, whether it\u2019s him collaborating with Dua Lipa and Gorillaz or stepping out onstage to sing along with Chappell Roan.<\/p>\n But the biggest names in his record collection before he got famous were never about the glamour. Sure, Elvis Presley helped kick down the door for rock and roll stars to look pretty onstage, but when John clicked with Bernie Taupin, their common language wasn\u2019t always the biggest stars of the day. They were born to be songwriters, and they could talk for hours about everyone from Carole King to James Taylor to Cat Stevens whenever they discussed the best artists of all time.<\/p>\n Then again, being a great songwriter wasn\u2019t something that one genre started back in the day. Long before the likes of Taylor and Stevens, the British invasion had already given the world the greatest melodies ever composed, and Brian Wilson was there to hurl the ball right back across the pond when making Pet Sounds. It wasn\u2019t hard for everyone to make a good song if they had heart behind it, but John felt that nothing could ever compare with what the likes of Motown were doing.<\/p>\n Because by comparison, Hitsville was one of the most impressive factories of pop music anyone had ever seen. Whether it was listening to Stevie Wonder<\/a>, Marvin Gaye, or Martha Vandella, every single one of the tunes coming out of Detroit had the potential to be a pop classic, but for John, nothing could possibly go wrong when listening to Smokey Robinson lay down a classic tune.<\/p>\n