People identify it, unfortunately, with David Bowies ‘Space Oddity’ and it actually wasn’t inspired by that at all,” Taupin said in a YouTube interview. Three years earlier, David Bowie also released a classic track about space travel. Written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, “Rocket Man” was a No. The song was featured in a recent prescription medication commercial for Ozempic. We recorded ‘Magic’ and the demo sounded great.” I pieced it together the next day and could hear the arrangement, hand claps, la la las. So I wrote the melody down on a piece of manuscript together with the chords. “I had to get up very early one morning delivering milk for a local dairy when Mary, my wife, said, ‘I’ve never been awake to see the daybreak.’ I heard her words as a melody and I knew they would fit with my ‘Magic’ chorus, but it was too late to sit at the piano in the flat. The verse is the same, it’s very simple and the most successful song I have ever written. ‘Magic’ is a four-bar chorus repeated once. “I had the chorus for ‘Magic’ on an idea tape just waiting for the right verse to pop into my head. Paton described the song’s inspiration in Goldmine. 5 in 1975 with “Magic,” written by bandmembers David Paton and Billy Lyall. Sally Struthers with that little kid: ‘Just 55 cents, the price of a cup of coffee, feeds this kid and his family for a week.’ Yeah, where is that? ‘Cause I wanna move there.” Whether you watch an actual TV or subscribe to one or more streaming platforms, the concept of “television commercials” remains a huge part of consuming entertainment - and more than a few classic songs have turned up in them in recent years …
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