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“Hercules” (Honky Château, 1972)
Elton has fun pretending to be a grits-kicking Southern boogie man, boasting “I like women and I like wine” over roadhouse piano, guitar twang, and a “doo-wop shoo-bop” chorus. It sounds like he’s tipping his hat to Lynyrd Skynyrd — except their debut album was still a year away. — Sheffield in Rolling Stone
And the title character doubles as a feline. Once he got all the faux western crap out of his system we totally fell for his impish asexual Pillsbury doughboy cartoon.
