Different from many of Elton's other albums

Elton employed a new and larger band for this album, retaining some but not all of his previous band members. The Resultant music sounds very different from anything he did Previously recorded and while I have not heard all of Elton's later music, I've heard a lot of it and it does not sound like anything I've heard from him.

Other re-masters of Elton's albums have as many as four bonus tracks. Here there is only one, but it's a classic. Do not go breaking my heart, recorded as a duet with Kiki Dee, Became Elton's first British number one hit and at one time, it Seemed That It Would Be His only search record. In fact, he had four Eventually more. The hugely talented but seriously under-rated Kiki Dee Never Came close to number one as a solo singer, but another duet with Elton, this time a cover of True Love (the Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly classic) made number two in Britain during the early nineties.

As far as the main album Here is Concerned, the major single here was Iceland girl, Which was a number one hit in America but did not come close in Britain, where it peaked outside the top ten. Unfortunately for Elton, the follow- up single (Grow some funk of your own) was a more modest hit on Both Sides of the Atlantic. The other side of That single (originally promoted in America as a double A-side) what the song about the shooting of Jesse James (I feel like a bullet in the gun of Robert Ford). Trust Bernie Taupin, with his reputation for strange lyrics as well as his enthusiasm for the old American West, to come up with a song like this.

This album is not one of Elton's masterpieces, Although It Is Strengthened by the addition of Do not go breaking my heart. Nevertheless, I find it to be quite an interesting album, Precisely Because it offers a contrast with all the search other Elton John albums did I own.