During the SS France's Atlantic crossing, Elton John wrote the compositions for a new album
that would become his ninth studio effort, Captain Fantastic & The Brown Dirt Cow-Boy.
This "concept-album" evoked the genesis of the singer's collaboration with his life time song-writing partner Bernie Taupin,
telling how the young defector poet from Lincolnshire went to London to meet the native musician from Pinner after that both
of them had seen the "Liberty" commercial inviting new talents to come forward. Since then, the steps that followed are
history, as being the milestones of a legendary musical team’s overwhelming planetary success who,
for more than half a century, has marked forever the world of songwriting and Pop-Rock music.

Finding myself in London in July 1974 to deliver to John Reid (Elton John’s manager by then) the paintings that the singer had
commissioned me earlier that year, John Reid proposed to meet and join Elton John’s entourage in his Surrey mansion,
that was to accompany the musician to Southampton for his boarding on the French liner.
Returning later to London in company of John Reid, the latter told me on our way back about the title of the album
in preparation, and summed up his theme for me. As soon as I returned to Paris (where I had just moved with my parents
that summer of 1974), I decided to take a chance and offer my own vision of that concept that John had mentioned
for the upcoming album’s sleeve. My painting was ready at the end of summer 74. I sent it to John Reid at his London
office's address by mid-Fall of 1974, after having taken a photograph of the work -only trace of the original that I kept.