1 00:00:01,880 --> 00:00:06,560 Speaker 1: Lisa and Russell's Your Story in a Song. This song 2 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:10,440 Speaker 1: has one story I guess from the people who wrote it. 3 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 1: Elton wrote the music, Bernie Taupen wrote the lyrics. It's 4 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:17,440 Speaker 1: called rocket Man. You may have heard of it. That's 5 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:21,240 Speaker 1: basically a song about an astronaut who feels isolated and 6 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:25,640 Speaker 1: conflicted while viewing his cosmic journey as a lonely room, 7 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:31,320 Speaker 1: nine to five job while missing his wife and family. 8 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:33,960 Speaker 1: So I don't know that being an astronaut is just 9 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:35,280 Speaker 1: a routine nine to five job. 10 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 2: Don't think it is anyway, No, and. 11 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:39,560 Speaker 1: Say you look at it. That's one story of the song. 12 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:43,920 Speaker 1: But Josh from Willogy has another story behind the song. 13 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:48,240 Speaker 2: Hey Josh, hi know you very good? You are edition 14 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:52,240 Speaker 2: number one in your Story in a Song. Now, why 15 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:55,840 Speaker 2: does this song Rocketman mean something special to you? 16 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 3: Well, basically, about eight years ago, my grandfather just passed 17 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:06,759 Speaker 3: away and my brother and I were in the hospital 18 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 3: room by ourselves, obviously by his bedside, and you know, 19 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:15,400 Speaker 3: he was real lover of music, yes, and we both thought, well, 20 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:18,560 Speaker 3: you know, what's something to put on to say, you know, goodbye? 21 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 3: And I thought to myself, well, why don't we put 22 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:24,480 Speaker 3: rocket Man you know, like in the song it says, 23 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:26,400 Speaker 3: you know, I think it's going to be a long time, 24 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 3: you know, things like that, and then yeah, we put 25 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:32,960 Speaker 3: it on and we were both just weeping by the bedside, 26 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 3: and I'll never forget it. 27 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:37,760 Speaker 2: It can be very cathartic, don't you think a song 28 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:41,839 Speaker 2: at times like that it's what most what you need. 29 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 2: Was Granddad an Elton fan. 30 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, he didn't mind him. He wasn't a huge among 31 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 3: a fan, but he did kind of like his music. 32 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:51,200 Speaker 3: All right. 33 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 2: Well that goes as well. 34 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 1: Probably would have proved it might have been thrown off 35 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 1: by some of the costumes in the early years. 36 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 3: Definitely, definitely, you know, being an Italian man, very would 37 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 3: have been a little bit. 38 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:09,200 Speaker 1: It would have been a little bit flamboyant for a 39 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:10,520 Speaker 1: conservative Italian man. 40 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:14,359 Speaker 3: Oh, yes, a little too flamboyant. But anyway, have you. 41 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:17,240 Speaker 2: Seen him do it live? Josh? 42 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:18,160 Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I. 43 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 2: Did you see that final show at HbF. 44 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:22,799 Speaker 3: I was there. 45 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:24,519 Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't it amazing? 46 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 3: You was was? 47 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:28,639 Speaker 1: I didn't see that one, but I had seen him 48 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:32,400 Speaker 1: previously do it and he's amazingman. 49 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:34,200 Speaker 2: Was definitely one of the big moments of the show. 50 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 1: Well, of course, and then it became the movie, didn't it. 51 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 1: Josh Yes made him, you know, more money than he 52 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 1: already had. 53 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:42,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's for sure.