"Candle In The Wind" was released on Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road in 1973. It was THE double album of the 1970's....to me at least. Simply one classic tune after another....the production, Elton's band, writing, and of course those incredible EJ vocals were all extraordinary.

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This is my 3rd video for my planned compilation of each track from the album. I've been off the series for way too long and keep getting sidetracked with some of my other Elton favorites from other albums, but was anxious to get one of several that I have been working on out......so this morning while i was supposed to be mowing the grass, I finished up this video instead!

"Candle In The Wind" remains one of the most memorable songs written about a famous person, in this case of course Marilyn Monroe. It's just a really beautiful reflection of a really beautiful woman, and the not so beautiful world she ended up in. Beautiful and tragic...the two words most applicable.

For the video I wanted to try and capture the mood of the song is some way more meaningful than simply stringing one image of Marilyn after the other, so I tried to select only a few photos that I liked the most, but I was absolutely stunned at not only the beauty of this woman, but of the sheer amount of photos that were taken of her! I've never worked on a video that had such a vast and quality selection of images to choose from.....unbelievable. What an absolutely gorgeous woman....an almost unworldly beauty, she seems to emanate some kind of light?!

Did I enjoy mowing the lawn in the middle of the south Texas afternoon? Not even, but it's done....kinda. Think the video turned out better than my mow job! :-)

Huge thanks to John Atherton for the picture of the boy at the television set! Visit his site for more awesome pictures:
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[Lyrics][
Goodbye Norma Jean
No I never knew you at all
You had the grace to hold yourself
While those around you crawled
They crawled out of the woodwork
And they whispered into your brain
They set you on the treadmill
And they made you change your name

And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never knowing who to cling to
When the rain set in
And I would have liked to know you
But I was just a kid
Your candle burned out long before
Your legend ever did

Loneliness was tough
The toughest role you ever played
Hollywood created a superstar
And pain was the price you paid
Even when you died
All the press still hounded you
All the papers had to say
Was that Marilyn was found in the nude

And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never knowing who to cling to
When the rain set in
And I would have liked to know you
But I was just a kid
Your candle burned out long before
Your legend ever did

Goodbye Norma Jean
Though I never knew you at all
You had the grace to hold yourself
While those around you crawled
Goodbye Norma Jean
From the young man in the 22nd row
Who sees you as something more than sexual
More than just our Marilyn Monroe

And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never knowing who to cling to
When the rain set in
And I would have liked to know you
But I was just a kid
Your candle burned out long before
Your legend ever did

Your candle burned out long before
Your legend ever did

My other Elton John videos:

"Curtains"
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"Daniel"
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"High Flying Bird"
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"Dirty Little Girl"
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"Roy Rogers"
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"Bite Your Lip (Get Up And Dance!)" Version 1
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"Bite Your Lip (Get Up And Dance!)" Version 2
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