Last week I popped along to the Northwood Hills Hotel (now the Namaste Lounge) with some fellow eltonites to catch-up on all things Elton while sampling the wonderful Indian cuisine the establishment now offers. Many of you will have visited it over the years, some of you in 2010 when we held a LATW there before Elton’s concert at Vicarage Road.
UK LATW 2010
Arriving early, what better way to pass the time than to do a mini tour of some of Elton’s childhood homes? With the Captain Fantastic album providing accompaniment, I headed back in time to 111 Potter Street to see the house that, according to Philip Norman, “[Elton] would always omit from the chronology….so uncomfortable were the associations”. Best to get it out of the way first then, eh?
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