{"id":451,"date":"2023-12-09T05:39:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T13:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/?p=451"},"modified":"2023-12-09T05:39:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T13:39:16","slug":"bernie-taupin-on-urban-legend-of-writing-elton-johns-your-song-in-10-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/09\/bernie-taupin-on-urban-legend-of-writing-elton-johns-your-song-in-10-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Taupin on \u2018urban legend\u2019 of writing Elton John\u2019s Your Song in 10 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bernie Taupin has said it is an \u201curban legend\u201d that he wrote Sir Elton John\u2019s classic hit Your Song in 10 minutes \u2013 admitting it may have been 15 minutes or half an hour. The beloved track, released in 1970, remains one of Sir Elton\u2019s biggest hits and is one of scores of classics Taupin wrote with the Rocketman star. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"698\" src=\"http:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot_20231209_103342_Samsung-Internet-1024x698.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot_20231209_103342_Samsung-Internet-1024x698.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot_20231209_103342_Samsung-Internet-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot_20231209_103342_Samsung-Internet-768x523.jpg 768w, https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot_20231209_103342_Samsung-Internet-450x307.jpg 450w, https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot_20231209_103342_Samsung-Internet-780x532.jpg 780w, https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot_20231209_103342_Samsung-Internet.jpg 1049w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The lyricist told ITV\u2019s Good Morning Britain: \u201cWhen you talk about a song being written in 10 minutes or 15 minutes, there\u2019s a slight bit of urban legend to that. \u201cI\u2019m not sure that I wrote Your Song in 10 minutes, it may have been 15 minutes or half an hour, all I can tell you is that it was a short time period.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Taupin has said it is an \u201curban legend\u201d that he wrote Sir Elton John\u2019s classic hit Your Song in 10 minutes \u2013 admitting it may have been 15 minutes or half an hour. The beloved track, released in 1970, remains one of Sir Elton\u2019s biggest hits and is one of scores of classics Taupin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}