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Song · 1972 · Soft rock

Rocket Man

1972

★ 7.9 editorial score

Taupin borrowed the title from a Pearls Before Swine song, and Hentschel's ARP put the loneliness in orbit.

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Honky Chateau

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Soft rock Space rock Rock

Subject

Space travel Loneliness Work

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Quote · 1958

“It is useful to distinguish among four factors which give importance, urgency, and inevitability to the advancement of space technology. The first of these factors is the compelling urge of man to explore and to discover, the thrust of curiosity that leads men to try to go where no one has gone before.”

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