Matt Springer

John Hughes' film transcends “crazy uncle watches nieces and nephews, learns the meaning of family” plot.

Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics to Elton John's "Rocket Man" while driving. It was all uphill from there.

Even his weakest albums remind us of what a way he has with a melody.

This was the second studio album he released in 1973, and his seventh in five years. Oh, and it was a double album.

Ultimate Classic Rock ranks Billy Joel albums, from worst to best.

Ultimate Classic Rock counts down every Elton John album, from worst to best.

We review Bruce Springsteen's new EP, 'American Beauty.'

Oh, to be Elton John in the early seventies! Sex, money, cocaine, fame, cocaine, success, sex, adulation, sex, touring, cocaine, hobnobbing, sexy cocaine, cocaine-addled sex...quite the lifestyle.

When the Beatles took the stage fifty years ago today (Oct. 13 -- ignore the date on this video) to appear on the variety show 'Sunday Night at the London Palladium,' they were four lads armed with the simple tools of their early classics--a bass, two guitars, drum kit. The psychedelia, the massive studio productions, the brilliance and adoration, suspicion and disintegration -- those were years a

What's left for Elton John to prove? The guy is a knight of the round table. He's sold approximately six gajillion records. He's got a live residency in Las Vegas. Hell, he's even paid tribute to Liberace on the Emmys!