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Daniel (song)
Daniel (song)
Chart (1973) UK Singles Chart[2] Dutch Top 40[4] GfK Dutch Charts Singles Top German Singles Chart[6] Irish Singles Chart[7] Norwegian Singles Chart[8] Swiss Singles Chart[9] US Billboard Pop Singles[1] US Billboard Adult Contemporary[1]
“Daniel” Single by Elton John from the album Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player B-side Released Format Recorded Genre Length Label Writer(s) Producer "Skyline Pigeon" 26 March 1973 (1973-03-26) 7" vinyl June 1972 Pop/Light Rock 3:53 MCA (US/Canada) DJM Records Elton John, Bernie Taupin Gus Dudgeon
Peak position 4 14 100t[5] 15 27 4 8 5 2 1
The song
Bernie Taupin wrote, "Daniel," while inspired by the events of the Vietnam War. The lyrics (including a verse in the original draft that was cut from the final version) describe a fictional veteran who was blinded as a result of the war ("your eyes have died"/"but you see more than I") and travels to Spain to escape those around him back home ("do you still feel the pain"/"of the scars that won’t heal?"), including his brother, from whose point of view the story is told.[3] "Daniel had been the most misinterpreted song that we’d ever written," explained Bernie, in the "Two Rooms" tribute project. "The story was about a guy that went back to a small town in Texas, returning from the Vietnam war. They’d lauded him when he came home and treated him like a hero. But, he just wanted to go home, go back to the farm, and try to get back to the life that he’d led before. I wanted to write something that was sympathetic to the people that came home." The song closely resembles John’s 1980 hit, Little Jeannie.
Elton John singles chronology "Crocodile Rock" (1972) Daniel (1973) "Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting" (1973)
"Daniel" was a major hit song by Elton John. It appeared on the 1973 album Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player. It was written by John and his lyricist Bernie Taupin. In the United States the song reached #2 on the pop charts and #1 on the adult contemporary charts[1] for two weeks in the spring of 1973. In the UK it made the top 5.[2]
Chart performance Covers
"Daniel" was covered on the 1991 album Two Rooms: Celebrating the Songs of Elton John & Bernie Taupin by Wilson Phillips. It
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reached #7 on the US Adult Contemporary chart as an album cut.[10] "Daniel" was covered on the 2005 album The Brave and the Bold by Bonnie ’Prince’ Billy & Tortoise. The American alternative rock band Fuel has also covered the song on their album Something Like Human. The Japanese ukulele rock duo Petty Booka covered "Daniel" on their album Blue Lagoon of Petty Booka.
Daniel (song)
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