Talk:Pinball Wizard

message: Ofcourse a deaf blind and dumb man never can play a pinball. First you need eye contact with the ball to decide when to press your right or left flipper button to activate the flippers. The rest i will not explain because its too bad too much people get bullied every year. And a pinball wizzard ? These are people who do not do drugs. There has to be a catch indeed. But not by bullying.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.144.3.226 (talk) 19:38, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Bullying

message: So which version was more popular on the radio? I swear I've never heard the piano version, but my coworker swears the Elton John version got *way* more radio play than the Who version.
Also, which lyrics specifically were added?
: Two stanzas were added to the movie version, which Elton John sang:
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: He can't beat me now I've always been the champ
: I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hand
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: Also:
: He's a pinball wizard, he's scored a trillion more
: A pinball wizard, the world's new pinball lord
: He's scoring more, he's scoring more
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: As to the question of popularity: The Elton John version received heavy U.S. airplay in the spring of 1975, even though it was not officially released as a single in the States. The U.S. rights to the soundtrack were on Polydor, and Elton was on MCA. Apparently Polydor had limited rights to release singles, and one of those they weren't allowed to release was the Elton track. Polydor did issue a 45 to radio stations, but it never came out to the general public.  Had there been a regular single, there's no question it would have been top-10, and maybe even #1, because that was when Elton was at the peak of his popularity.  In its original release, The Who's version only got to #19 on the U.S. charts. Today, though, you're much more likely to hear the Who's version on the radio. Cheemo 02:41, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: "This is one of Karl Pilkington's favourite songs as he only likes a 'song with a story'. Pinball Wizard was featured on the Ricky Gervais radio show on XFM, although, he doesn't see how a 'deaf, dumb and blind kid' plays pinball. He says he wouldn't even know he was playing pinball. Why put money in the machine?"
The song says he "plays by sense of smell". Fephisto 16:15, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Answer to the trivia 

message: Some of the 45 sleeves for The Who's "Pinball Wizard" had a pinball machine playfield as background. For the curious, the machine pictured was Williams Electronics Student Prince.
(http://ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=2408)RomeoMike (talk) 15:15, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  45 rpm artwork 

message: This article refers to him as "John". It's WP style to refer to individuals by their family names, but Elton John is a special case. To begin with, it's a chosen stage name, and the artist has been clear that both Elton and John are personal names, like Billy Bob. Even on formal occasions -- such as meeting the Queen -- he insists on being called "Elton", without Mr. anything. 
I realise this is a challenge for WP; rather like Prince's foray into glyph-hood. However, we should consider whether referring to this figure as "John" is good style. Given his own rejection of "John" as a last name, it reads like referring to someone called Billy Bob as "Mr. Bob". Laodah 18:45, 28 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Elton John's uninomial

message: The statement regarding the opening of Pinball Wizard being used for the opening of Tangled is incorrect and unverifiable.
Lnsiegel (talk) 05:49, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of Pinball Wizard in Disney's Tangled