"Step Into Christmas" by Business Time

 

Merry Christmas!

Here's a quarantine cover of Middlesex, UK pianist Elton John's rollicking 1973 holiday tune "Step Into Christmas" from Chester, UK band Business Time.

For more Elton John covers, the Arc Iris version of "Candle in the Wind" can be found here, the J2 and Sizzy Rocket version of "Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road" can be found here, and Mystic Prophecy's version of "I'm Still Standing" can be found here.

"Candle in the Wind" by Arc Iris

 

Providence, Rhode Island experimental band Arc Iris take Elton John's "Candle in the Wind," a 1974 soft ballad mourning Marilyn, and make it all sorts of weird.

In a good way.  But, weird nonetheless.

For another Elton cover, J2 and Sizzy Rocket's version of "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" can be found here.

"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" by J2 + Sizzy Rocket

Versatile British/Indian music producer J2 teamed up with Las Vegas, Nevada singer Sizzy Rocket on a reimagination of the title track from Elton John's 1973 magnum opus "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road."

And, MAN, is it extra.

This isn't to say that it's awful.  

It's just the musical equivalent of watching a steady stream of the explosions in Michael Bay films.

For another Elton John cover, check out this one by Mystic Prophecy.

"I'm Still Standing" by Mystic Prophecy

 

Memmingen, Germany thrash band Mystic Prophecy throw down some melodic speed metal riffs on their rebranding of Elton John's 1982 cross-Atlantic hit "I'm Still Standing."

Yeah, yeah, yeah!