◇ image via Wikipedia

Artist

Elton John

Alternative rock

Alternative rockRhythm and bluesRock

Elton John is a Alternative rock and Rhythm and blues act. Their catalogue also touches Rock. Their sound grew out of Jean-Luc Ponty, 12 Memories, Simon Dupree and the Big Sound, Whiskeytown and Free Man in Paris. Those roots explain a lot about how Elton John arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Rod Stewart, Billy Joel, Phil Collins, Wings and Paul McCartney & Wings, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Seal, Charlie Puth, Faith Hill, Eels and Sam Ryder, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 251 connections around Elton John, reaching back through Jean-Luc Ponty and forward to Seal. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.