About this episode
In this episode, Scot and Jeff discuss Elton John with Jamie Kirchick, author of The End of Europe . Introducing the Band : Your hosts Scot Bertram ( @ScotBertram ) and Jeff Blehar ( @EsotericCD ) with guest Jamie Kirchick ( @JKirchick ). He’s a Brookings Institution Visiting Fellow, author of The End of Europe , and columnist for Tablet magazine. Jamie’s Music Pick: Elton John : Allow us to simply quote from this recent Vulture piece on Sir Elton: He had seven No. 1 albums in a row in the U.S. These albums, in a three-and-a-half-year period, spent a total of 39 weeks at No. 1, a bit less than a quarter of that overall span. By Billboard ’s rankings, he is by far the biggest album act of the 1970s (despite the fact that he didn’t have a top-ten album after 1976). He is also Billboard ’s biggest singles act of the decade, and the magazine’s third-biggest singles artist of all time, with nine No. 1 singles and 27 top-ten hits, which is a lot. In all, he’s sold more than 150 million albums and 100 million singles. We cover his classic period in-depth, discuss works through Too Low For Zero , and then do our best to summarize the remainder of an amazing career. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.