Elton John this Sunday!! I am really getting excited to see this larger than life icon. I'm so glad some of these performing artists hang around and do tour after tour....allowing us to hold on, in some small way, to our youth.  It seems like yesterday, but it was sometime around 1974..riding in the back seat of an old Dodge with my family and Melinda Kennel on our way to Myrtle Beach for vacation.  We called her "Tildy"...Tildy had one of those new fangled rectangular cassette players and we were listening to "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" and "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"....we were trying to learn every word. Did he say "horny back toad"?? Since she had recorded the songs right off the radio station (98 WYCR), it was garbled and fuzzy, and sometimes the DJ would cut in....then the next song would be something like John Denver singing "Thank God I'm A Country Boy"!  Oh those were the days......we didn't worry about sunscreen or, really, anything for that matter.
It was simpler then....no cell phones, no mp3 players, no ipods......and gas was around 39 cents a gallon..... Life goes on and things change and we adapt, but much remains the same. Like Elton John.