Most people can't help but notice that Jake Shears' voice can sound uncannily similar to British pop star Elton John's.

But the Scissor Sisters frontman says he only gave one of Elton's records a cursory listen before penning the New York City dance outfit's 2004 break-out hit, "Take Your Mama".

"It's really funny, because I had Goodbye Yellowbrick Road on double vinyl. I'd got it at a flea market, or whatever. I had probably listened to it once, like a couple of years before we had written 'Take Your Mama'," Shears said.

"And I remember I played (Take Your Mama) for my mom, and she was the first person that looked at me and said, 'You sound like Elton John.' So then it was happy coincidence, and that's how I really discovered his music."

Who knew that one day Shears would end up collaborating with Elton on two songs for the Scissor Sisters' second album, last year's Ta-Dah, including the huge hit I Don't Feel Like Dancin'.

"He was an early fan, and then we just made great friends," Shears said. It was Elton who approached the band three years ago about playing some shows together.

"Especially with (multi-instrumentalist) Babydaddy and me, (Elton) is family. He treats us like his kids. We always have tons to talk to him about together, so we spend a lot of time with him and David."

It wasn't until Elton visited Scissor Sisters' New York studio that "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" was born. "He just stopped by our studio and brought Babydaddy and I sweaters. I needed a winter coat. And he brought us some warm stuff last winter. And we were happily trying stuff on. He sat down at the piano and started playing, and we wrote 'I Don't Feel Like Dancin''."

Turns out the song couldn't have come at a better time. "He's like a happy drug," Shears said. "I was going through a lot of depression at the time, so a visit from him is like the sweet fairy that comes into the room. I think it was a mixture of an adrenaline thing, being on the road for too long, coming back to New York and trying to assimilate back into some sort of a life. I think it's a culmination of that and the intense pressure to make a followup record."

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