Elton playing and singing 'Tiny Dancer' with a sheet of paper with the lyrics by Bernie Taupin before the album 'Madman Across The Water' was released: this is history in the making!

I love that Bernie is still calling Elton ‘Reg’.

I am so glad Elton even exists, really. What a blessed soul he is.

Thank GOD someone had the foresight to record all these early Elton performances. When he's gone humanity will be hugely enriched . . . like having tapes of Mozart or Beethoven for us all to enjoy . . . 60 years on.

It's just amazing how little ego there is with Elton. From the very beginning he ALWAYS made it clear that it's all about Bernie, he's just the front man. What an amazing team.

Awesome I got chills he actually sung tiny dancer as a demo! Also it was cool seeing him in 1971 in his house

What an amazing genius mix of Elton & Bernie. Can’t imagine how life would’ve been without them answering the songwriter/singer ad.

Thank God Elton and Bernie got together. Hearing rough yet still great Tiny Dancer is amazing. whole documentary is excellent! thanks

How wonderful life is while Elton is in the world.

How much does chance play in the creation of something great? Well, Elton answered an ad in New Musical Express for new talent and then went to go see the A&R manager for New Liberty Records. His name was Ray Williams. Williams had a stack of envelopes with submissions by potential songwriters for the same ad. He picked one up off the pile and handed it to Elton. It was unopened. It just happened to be Bernie Taupin's submission of material. That was the start of their ongoing partnership.

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Bernie's accent has changed so much since then. He almost has a full blown American accent now.

aren't we glad he overcame his feeling that his voice wasn't good enough to record?

RIP Paul Buckmaster. His orchestral arrangements were stunning.

I am a big fan and I never saw this before. Elton needs to put together all his specials and videos into a Blu ray box set!

My jaw dropped the first time I heard Sixty Years On. It was my introduction to Elton John. It was 1973 and I was twelve

Hard to imagine that Paul Buckmaster could've thought his arrangement for Sixty Years On was anything less than magnificent. Such an incredibly gifted composer/arranger.

I got emotional witnessing the creation of “Tiny Dancer”.. as it was happening ....all on the crumpled piece of paper ... where is that paper now ? So casual .. so effortless ... As IF Shakespeare himself pulled out a parchment to show us an idea he had for a little play he was thinking of simply naming ...Romeo and Juliet...

Elton is worth over 500 million dollars.He earned every penny.The greatest recording artist that Britains has ever produced.

To watch Elton put tiny dancer together really is a look into mankind and seeing what a human is capable of . Just a Freak in such a good way and Bernie meeting his girlfriend all this had to happen for us to have that song.