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"Electricity" is a song composed by English musician Elton John and Lee Hall for Billy Elliot the Musical. Released on 11 July 2005, it became John's 63rd UK top-40 hit, peaking at number four on the UK Singles Chart, and is his most recent solo top-40 hit in the UK. The song was included as a bonus track on the UK re-issue of Elton's album Peachtree Road. Background The song is sung by Billy Elliot in the stage production at his audition for a place at The Royal Ballet School in London. Billy is asked "What does it feel like, when you are dancing?" by one of the panel. Billy responds, hesitantly at first, "I can't really explain it... I haven't got the words..." And then (see full lyrics) the music takes hold, and he goes into an energetic song, describing dancing as "Something that you can't control". After two verses, each with a chorus, Billy leaps into a frenetic dance; in this dance, many skills such as acrobatics are used (the rhythm for this section of the instrumental varies from Billy to Billy, depending on each actor's dance strengths). The number concludes with another verse and Billy doing several pirouettes or tumbles. The most notable lyric in this piece is that of the title: 'Electricity sparks inside of me and I'm free, I'm free!" It was inspired by the scene in the film, which it follows closely, in which Billy describes dancing as "Electricity". His passion, shown in his description, is the implied reason for Billy's acceptance into The Royal Ballet School.

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“Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound.”
— Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV (1818), Stanza 23.
“We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.”
— Thomas Edison, in a statement to a reporter during the first public demonstration of his incandescent (31 December 1879), as quoted in Chronology of Americans and the Environment (2011) by Chris J. Magoc, p. 46.
“Without electricity, there can be no art.”
— Nam June Paik, in "Nam June Paik retrospective, Liverpool" by Emma O'Kelly in Wallpaper (20 December 2010).
“Go hug your girlfriend! Or if you don't have any, go find one! You won't find the meaning of life with electricity!”
— Pex Tufvesson, "Mahoney of "Kaktus & Mahoney" in an interview at Remix64 (26 September 2001).
“Notwithstanding my experiments with electricity the thunderbolt continues to fall under our noses and beards; and as for the tyrant, there are a million of us still engaged at snatching away his sceptre.”
— Benjamin Franklin, comment on Tubgot's inscription in a letter to Felix Nogaret, who translated the lines into French.
“Russia is the largest energy power. The country with a unique energy system, one of the leaders in generating electricity and supplying it to the global market. This is the result of your hard work and professionalism. Each of you (energy complex's worker and veteran) does everything to ensure that the country's energy system stays reliable.”
— Mikhail Mishustin (2021) cited in: "Russia is one of global leaders in electricity supplies — PM Mishustin" in TASS, 22 December 2021.

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Notable quotes

“Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound.”
— Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV (1818), Stanza 23.
“We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.”
— Thomas Edison, in a statement to a reporter during the first public demonstration of his incandescent (31 December 1879), as quoted in Chronology of Americans and the Environment (2011) by Chris J. Magoc, p. 46.
“Without electricity, there can be no art.”
— Nam June Paik, in "Nam June Paik retrospective, Liverpool" by Emma O'Kelly in Wallpaper (20 December 2010).
“Go hug your girlfriend! Or if you don't have any, go find one! You won't find the meaning of life with electricity!”
— Pex Tufvesson, "Mahoney of "Kaktus & Mahoney" in an interview at Remix64 (26 September 2001).
“Notwithstanding my experiments with electricity the thunderbolt continues to fall under our noses and beards; and as for the tyrant, there are a million of us still engaged at snatching away his sceptre.”
— Benjamin Franklin, comment on Tubgot's inscription in a letter to Felix Nogaret, who translated the lines into French.
“Russia is the largest energy power. The country with a unique energy system, one of the leaders in generating electricity and supplying it to the global market. This is the result of your hard work and professionalism. Each of you (energy complex's worker and veteran) does everything to ensure that the country's energy system stays reliable.”
— Mikhail Mishustin (2021) cited in: "Russia is one of global leaders in electricity supplies — PM Mishustin" in TASS, 22 December 2021.

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