{"id":321,"date":"2011-02-13T12:02:30","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T12:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/?p=321"},"modified":"2011-02-13T12:02:30","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T12:02:30","slug":"elton-john-says-lion-king-revived-my-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/elton-john-says-lion-king-revived-my-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Elton John says &#8216;Lion King Revived my Career&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_322\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/downloads\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/elton-john-lion-king.jpg');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/elton-john-lion-king.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-322\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/elton-john-lion-king-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"Elton John Composed the musical score for the Disney&#039;s Lion King\" title=\"Elton John Composed the musical score for the Disney&#039;s Lion King\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-322\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/elton-john-lion-king-230x300.jpg 230w, http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/elton-john-lion-king.jpg 376w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elton John Composed the musical score for the Disney's Lion King<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nElton John has suggested that composing the musical score for the Disney film The Lion King helped to revive his career.<\/p>\n<p>During an appearance on NBC&#8217;s Today, John credited lyricist Sir Tim Rice with changing the course of his career by enlisting him to write songs for the animated movie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That opened a huge door for me and it opened the door for Broadway, making our own animation, opened the door for me scoring movies,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The musician continued: &#8220;At that time, I was just making records, touring, making videos &#8211; so in 1993, with The Lion King, my career completely changed and took off. Thank God it did, because it was boring doing the former three all the time. There&#8217;s no end to what you can do really, if you&#8217;re lucky enough to be offered the chance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>John and Rice would later win a &#8216;Best Original Song&#8217; Oscar in 1994 for their composition &#8216;Can You Feel The Love Tonight&#8217; from The Lion King&#8217;s soundtrack.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 a2a_target addtoany_list\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nwpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elton John has suggested that composing the musical score for the Disney film The Lion King helped to revive his career. During an appearance on NBC&#8217;s Today, John credited lyricist Sir Tim Rice with changing the course of his career by enlisting him to write songs for the animated movie. &#8220;That opened a huge door [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 a2a_target addtoany_list\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[147,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}