The hostess is handing the hot towels around and I am BACK to talk about Holiday Inn from Elton John's 1971 Madman Across the Water. And how it sort of became part of my dream of going to meet my person in the early days when we were 6,000 miles apart. LOVE this song. Came out in November 1971. Lyrics by Bernie Taupin, who said 'Back in the seventies, when people were saying that "Madman Across the Water" was about Richard Nixon, I thought, That is genius. I could never have thought of that.'