Elton John was one of my go-to artists when I was in high school. In fact, the first "rock" record I remember bringing home was Caribou. (I thought my mother was going to have a heart attack when she heard The Bitch is Back.)
Even then—long before Elton came out and only a short time after I admitted it to myself—while listening to Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, I knew Elton and I played on the same team. I erred in one aspect, however. I had wrongly assumed that Elton and his musical partner Bernie Taupin were lovers…