"I had worked as the personal assistant for Elton John in the early 1970s and was with him when he toured in America," Epps said. "That's how I met Gus Dudgeon, since he produced several of Elton ...

But for their second album, “Elton John” (1970), Elton sought out the producer of what he thought was the best song going (David Bowie’s “Space Oddity”), and that was Gus Dudgeon, who ...