Page 6 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1978
Elton
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HOLLYWOOD — Elton John was the biggest talk in rock when he
startled fans last year by announcing he would do no more concerts.
At the time, John was breaking box-office records, was on the cover
of Time magazine and his album, “Captain Fantastic,” was No. 1 on
the national sales charts.
He had recorded three albums in four months and spent six years
on the road. Many felt his uneventful live album in 1976, “Here and
There,” signaled the end for John. His revelation that he was bisexual
didn’t help his popularity.
John secluded himself and Reg Dwight, his real name, began to
regroup.
“The albums started to become impersonal and the hunger for live
shows had gone away,” John said.
But now he has embarked on what is said to be a comeback with a
new “Single Man” album, his first in two years and the first without
associate Bemie Taupin.
“I’ve enjoyed it on the outside, but it’s nice to be starting over
again,” John said in an interview. He said the new album is symbolic
of an increased self-reliance. It was his first effort with longtime
friend Gary Osborne.
“I’ve got the adrenalin flowing. I feel it’s time to start my career
again. And I admit I am a bit nervous. ”
The interview took place before John’s recent collapse in London
that placed new doubts in the way of his comeback. In any event, he’s
a changed man publicly.
The outrageous glasses are gone, replaced with contact lenses, and
so are the wild outfits. Wearing a black hat and suit with a “Back By
Popular Demand” lapel button, John was relaxed and eager to tail
about the new album.
"It’s a fairly simple album, not lavish by any means,’ he said. “I
hope it is only the start of better things to come. The album isliilloi
good songs. I’ve gone back to basics. It hasn’t been overproduced
We went in to do a single and ended up recording 21 songs. Nothing
was written before we went into the studio.”
“It was a very happy album to
John is happy with the album
make.”
But it’s his first without Taupin and raises the question of a split.
But the still unanswered question for his fans is whether John will
again go on tour. He is unsure. And it seems less likely since his
collapse this month at his London mansion.
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TEHRAN, Iran — Violence fe|
the Caspian Sea to the southemoij
fields is frustrating the shahs
tempt to restore order and
threatening Americans and
foreign workers who hold (
positions in Iran’s economy.
Soldiers fired on a rioting
at Lahijan Monday, killing
youths and a 4-year-old boy and
juring 22 others.
The government said thedei
strators set fire to 11 bank brancfe
a library, a mosque and a numbeis
other buildings in the townnearth
Caspian.
At the oilfield town of Ah™
strikers pulled a British oil wdt
from his car and set it ablaze,
demonstrators burst into an A:
can home and ransacked it.
Striking Iranian workers
Tehran barricaded the Telec©
munications Co. of Iran buildiij
and forced foreign workers, 30tof
of them Americans, to leave
An American Embassy spoh
man said there was ' some pushuV
and shoving” in the buildingwhe
800 people work. The oesno;
strators are demanding that fores
ners, whom they accuse of prop
up the shah, leave Iran.
A Western oil expert said
situation in the strike-crippled it
fields was grim because of tensn
between the hard-liners and tks
who had returned to work.
“It’s a touch-and-go situate
down there even though moretk
half the workers are back," he said
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said: "Production today (Monda)
back to about 2.6 million barat
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