{"id":2163,"date":"2026-01-16T17:57:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:54:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:54:33","slug":"elton-john-rocket-man-royal-festival-hall-london-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/16\/elton-john-rocket-man-royal-festival-hall-london-1972\/","title":{"rendered":"Elton John &#8211; Rocket Man (Royal Festival Hall, London 1972)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">&#8220;Rocket Man (I Think It&#8217;s Going to Be a Long, Long Time),&#8221; written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, was released in 1972.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The full lyrics describe the thoughts and feelings of an astronaut on a long space mission, including missing Earth and their wife, and the feeling of isolation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The song draws inspiration from Ray Bradbury&#8217;s short story &#8220;The Rocket Man,&#8221; which explores an astronaut&#8217;s conflict between family and space travel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The lyrics touch upon themes of isolation and detachment, and are sometimes seen as a metaphor for the loneliness of fame or having a dual identity.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8220;Rocket Man (I Think It&#8217;s Going to Be a Long, Long Time),&#8221; written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, was released in 1972. The full lyrics describe the thoughts and feelings of an astronaut on a long space mission, including missing Earth and their wife, and the feeling of isolation. The song draws inspiration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-2163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies-music","tag-movies-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2624,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions\/2624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}