Maybe I was too big a fan and was susceptible to anything remotely connected to Elton John. Or maybe it was the glowing review in "Rolling Stone". Or the hype that said it was the Album of the Year.
I bought "American Gothic" and dropped the needle and was completely confused. Bombastic, theatrical, it sounded like nothing else in my collection. But having paid for it, and thus needing to play it and get my money's worth, I came to know it, but to say I loved it would be stretching it.
