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Elton John: Diamonds: The Ultimate Greatest Hits. Play all. Enjoy this playlist of Elton's most iconic hits, including classics such as 'Your Song', 'Rocket Man', 'Tiny Dancer' and much...
- Island Girl
- Part-Time Love
- Honky Cat
- Come Back Baby
- The Ballad of Blind Tom
- Please
- When Love Is Dying
- Believe
- Dan Dare
- Blue Eyes
One of Elton’s most joyous tunes, but the toe-curling lyrics (“Island girl, what you wanting with the white man’s world?”) are presumably why he retired this single from live shows in 1990.
Elton starts a six-year break from otherwise career-long songwriting partner Bernie Taupin. New lyricist Gary Osbourne doesn’t yet conjure the same magic.
Overshadowed byHonky Chateau’s bigger hit, Rocket Man, this brassier single finds Elton in playful mood: “Time to drink whisky!”
Recorded when Sir Elton Hercules John was still Pinner, Middlesex teenager Reg Dwight, a classically trained pub pianist and occasional session musician. A fine early career effort from his youthful rhythm and blues outfit.
From late period, minimalist gem The Diving Board, EJ evokes the poetry and spiralling piano runs of his early years with this lovely insight into the mind of a blind Deep South bluesman.
A touching song from Made in England, which finds Elton in the role of elder statesman with nothing to prove except his capacity for love, and pleading “let me grow old with you”.
Elton’s first ever US performance was supporting the late Leon Russell, who shared vocal tips and decades later, joined Elton for the album The Union. This is a beautiful song about a fading love.
With the crazy outfits, barmy glasses and wheelbarrows of cocaine of the 70s far behind him, the post-throat op Elton uses his deeper range and older man’s gravitas to maximum effect.
Three years after Rocket Man, space travel again provides inspiration via 1950s comic character Dan Dare. The song was one of the first to use the talkbox, a wacky effects-pedal.
A mid-career, Grammy-nominated gem, laden with dollops of trademark melancholy (“Blue eyes … holding back the tears, holding back the pain.”)
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- Dave Simpson
List of songs recorded by Elton John. Elton John with Bernie Taupin, who has been John's primary lyricist since 1967. British singer-songwriter, pianist and composer Elton John has recorded a total of 464 songs, most of which are written by him and Bernie Taupin . John formed the blues band Bluesology in 1962.
SongWriter (s)Original ReleaseYear"Across the River Thames"Elton John Bernie TaupinThe Captain & the Kid (UK edition bonus ...2006"Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" ...Nickolas Ashford Valerie Simpson1993"All Across the Havens"Elton John Bernie TaupinB-side to "Lady Samantha" [a]1969Elton John Bernie Taupin1982- Pop Music Critic
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- 'Rocket Man' (1972) This was the second major pop hit of the era by a music legend in the making that looked to the cosmos and thought "It must get awful lonely up there."
- 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' (1973) This could be his finest hour as a vocalist, his soulful delivery making the most of that elastic upper register while underscoring the emotion of the lyrics, in which he reveals that he's "finally decided my future lies beyond the Yellow Brick Road."
- 'Someone Saved My Life Tonight' (1975) The only single released from an autobiographical concept album called "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy" has lyrics inspired by John breaking off his engagement to Linda Woodrow and the suicidal feelings that relationship inspired.
- 'Bennie and the Jets' (1973) Were John and Taupin responding to glam and more specifically "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" in this fanciful ode to a fictitious band, as sung from the perspective of a super-fan promising Candy and Ronnie "Oh, but they're weird and they're wonderful"?
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- Sad Songs (Say So Much) Elton John - Sad Songs (Say So Much) This song closed Elton's 1984 album Breaking Hearts, and was also released as a single. The lyrics describe how it sometimes helps for someone who is feeling blue, to listen to old radio blues tunes.
- Daniel. Elton John - Daniel 1973. Bernie Taupin wrote this song after reading an article about a Vietnam War veteran who had been wounded, and wanted to get away from the attention he was getting back home.
- Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word. Elton John - Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word. The Story of... 'Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word' This song is a rather mournful ballad about a relationship which is sadly falling apart.
- Bennie and the Jets. Elton John - Bennie And The Jets (Official Music Video) Possibly the greatest intro to an Elton song? Dolly Parton eyes up Elton John collaboration for her upcoming rock album.
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Mar 24, 2022 · Celebrate Elton John's 75th birthday with his greatest hits and finest deep cuts from his legendary 50-plus-year career. From pop anthems to rock classics, see the staff picks and commentary for each song.
