Elton John can feel the love tonight.
The “Tiny Dancer” singer confirmed to Variety that he played an influential role in ensuring that his song “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” was not deleted from Disney’s “The Lion King.” John saved the song from the cutting room floor, and it went on to win the Oscar for best original song.
“The whole Disney team came down to Atlanta and showed me a rough cut of the nearly finished film, and there was no ‘Can You Feel the Love Tonight,’” John told Variety. “So I asked, ‘Where’s “Can You Feel the Love Tonight?”‘”
“And they go, ‘Well, we
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