Quote Originally Posted by Omegstrat6 View Post
Although the lyrics talk about Daniel being an older brother, Bernie Taupin actually based it on an article he read about a Vietnam veteran who was struggling with his treatment as a hero on his return home.

Song For Guy was tribute song to a staff member at Rocket records, I think this might be confusing a few people......

Elton and Bernie hadn’t split up, really – they’d just been doing all of the drugs and had started working with other people. One way to get around this Taupin-free period was to release an instrumental. Written and recorded on the same day during a morbid phase where Elton imagined his own death, it was title-free until he heard about the death of a young messenger, Guy Burchett, who worked for Rocket