![]() ![]() The song could have been about James Dean, it could have been about Montgomery Clift, it could have been about Jim Morrison ….how we glamorize death, how we immortalize people.”Įlton John's 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' w/ 'Candle in the Wind'. ![]() John and Taupin’s “Candle in the Wind” aptly captures some of the tragedy and mystique that was Marilyn Monroe, and the long-standing public fascination with her life.īut as Taupin would later remark, the song is about “the idea of fame or youth or somebody being cut short in the prime of their life. The song’s opening line, “Goodbye Norma Jean” refers Monroe’s real first name, and the lyrics chronicle her troubled life as a film star and international celebrity. In Monroe’s case, too, the phrase was especially appropriate, given her tumultuous life and untimely death. Taupin had been inspired by the phrase “candle in the wind” when he heard someone use it to describe Janis Joplin, the blues-rock singer who died of a heroin overdose in 1970. The song was originally written as a tribute to Hollywood movie star Marilyn Monroe who died at the age of 36 in August 1962. ![]() “Candle in the Wind” is a name of a song performed by Elton John and written by he and collaborator Bernie Taupin in 1972. Marilyn Monroe in a troubled, far-away moment, captured by Richard Avedon, NY, May 1957. ![]()
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