Little Richard died and I spent an evening playing his records, thinking about the night I saw him live, the same year I left school – Sam Cooke was his support act, if you can believe that – and how blown away I was by his performance, how much it had influenced me. Reg Dwight might have been born in Pinner in 1947, but Elton John was born in the stalls of the Harrow Granada that night in October 1962.
