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Bullying

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)[reply]

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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:

He can't beat me now I've always been the champ

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hand

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

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)[reply]

Answer to the trivia

"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)[reply]

- Tell that to Karl Pilkington.

Tommy plays pinball through the vibrations from the pinball machine as Pete Townsend says after he became deaf dumb and blind he learns to see things and feel and hear evrything as vibrations User: Elijah Craan

The "Trivia" section is largely about other people's reaction to "Pinball Wizard" and doesn't really fit in this wiki entry. If the trivia is good enough to be included in wiki, then it belongs on the believer's own page, else not at all. Trivia is about a thing, not about what someone says or believes about a thing (unless that view or belief changed the thing itself). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.213.217.230 (talk) 18:10, August 26, 2007 (UTC)

45 rpm artwork

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)[reply]

Elton John's uninomial

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)[reply]

Use of Pinball Wizard in Disney's Tangled

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)[reply]

It's not only incorrect and unverifiable, but extremely poorly written and should be removed for any of those reasons. Tribal Prophet (talk) 21:41, 7 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Statement removed. Lnsiegel (talk) 06:30, 10 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]