Elton John had always been a child of what The Beatles had done before he even got started making music. He was indebted to all types of music whenever he worked on Bernie Taupin’s lyrics, but the Fab Four had the innate sense of pop smarts that made them nearly impossible to resist, even if you’ve been trying your best to avoid them for years. They were the wise sages of what pop music was supposed to be, but that didn’t mean that all of them f…