Elton John's Empty Sky Album Cover

I heard the music because I'd hang out at the recording studio. The only thing that influenced me was the title, which I envisaged as Elton against an empty sky background. Did you have lots of quite elaborate ideas before settling on what is a simple, if quite subtle image? No, we just went with one initial idea for all of us, of Steve as the record producer of Elton's The Tune Smith,. Bernie is the writer of the lyrics for myself. We all look back on it as a rather sort of twee and naive project but it got a pretty wet in the industry. There was a steep learning curve between empty sky, and what became Elton's first