Elton John = エルトン・ジョン* Elton John = エルトン・ジョン* - Greatest Hits 1970-2002 = グレイテスト・ヒッツ 1970-2002 (2xCD, Comp, Promo) Mercury This mid-'70s hit was another of John’s long list of No. Greatest Hits • Elton John’s Greatest Hits Volume II • Lady Samantha • The Very Best of Elton John • Your Songs • Elton John’s Greatest Hits Volume III, 1979–1987 • The Very Best of Elton John • To Be Continued … • Love Songs • Greatest Hits 1970–2002 • Rocket Man – The Definitive Hits … This local radio playlist staple is a timeless anthem to the strangely uplifting power of melancholy songs. https://www.rollingstone.com/.../elton-johns-greatest-non-hits-127864 After the disastrously-received disco experiment of 1979’s Victim of Love, new songwriting partner Gary Osbourne helps Elton relocate his soft-rock mojo and return to the US top five. ", Loungewear Is the Undisputed Winner of 2020, The 20 Best Books For These Long Winter Nights, The Coolest Tech and Gadgets of 2021 (So Far), A Cable Knit Sweater Is Your Winter Style Staple, This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. Squarely in the timeline of John and Bernie Taupin’s collaborative heyday, the deep impact “Rocket Man” had on the course of John’s career and rock history is undeniable. Since 1967, he has collaborated with lyricist Bernie Taupin, who has written the lyrics for the majority of John's songs; John would compose the music.John has also worked with other lyricists, primarily in the 1980s, including Gary Osborne and Davey Johnstone. The self-deprecating concept behind the song struck a chord with pop music fans around the world. This did preempt a strange disco age, but even some of John’s biggest swings are still more commendable than other artists' safe moves. (1994), 15. The dazzling wordplay addresses the crime, hustlers and characters Bernie encountered in New York – “Subway’s no way for a good man to go down / Rich man can ride and the hobo he can drown” – and the melody is one of EJ’s very best. It appeared on John's self-titled second album in 1970. In honor of the legend's birthday, here is an exclusive Billboard recap of John's 40 biggest Hot 100 hits. Recorded with Stylistics producer Thom Bell, this ace disco cut from the fag end of Elton’s Philly soul period flopped on release in 1979. The best and the worst Jennifer Lopez films - ranked! Sent viral by a stunning one-take video featuring a post-rehab Robert Downey Jr, this magnificent, Beatles-y ballad about love after addiction is presumably from Elton’s heart. 1) Elton John - 'Your Song' One of Elton John's best-known songs is 'Your Song'. It’s a perfect response to the changing times. The song is a major departure from John’s early work, leaning much harder in the soft rock style that was popular in the early '90s. “Someone Saved My Life Tonight” is the brave autobiographical story of John’s attempted suicide. It topped the album chart in both the United States and the United Kingdom, staying at number one for ten consecutive weeks in the former nation and eleven weeks in the latter. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1974 Dolby Cassette release of Elton John's Greatest Hits on Discogs. Another big hit from Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, "Fighting" manages to stand out among the crop. By the late 70s, Elton was a mess: bulimic, suffering seizures, and gorging on coke, whisky, pornography and ice-cream, his career in nosedive. 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If there’s a single that offers a testament to the bond that John and Bernie Taupin share, it's this one. Elton John's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 hits (as a soloist) chart is based on actual performance on the weekly Billboard Hot 100, through the April 1, 2017, ranking. Label: Gut. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io, 54 Photos of Kurt Cobain Through the Years, Nothing Has Been the Same Since David Bowie Died, Look At How Harry Styles Holds This Glass, Harry Styles Dances with Phoebe Waller-Bridge. 1947) is an English singer-songwriter, pianist and composer who has recorded hundreds of songs during his long career. After a tumultuous '70s, a disco album misstep, and a tonal shift in the musical landscape, “I’m Still Standing” was John’s response to the threat of becoming irrelevant. Elton does too, naming his first son (with husband David Furnish, via a surrogate mother) Zachary Levon Furnish-John. Overshadowed by Honky Chateau’s bigger hit, Rocket Man, this brassier single finds Elton in playful mood: “Time to drink whisky!”. Justin Kirkland is a writer for Esquire, where he focuses on entertainment, television, and pop culture. A hat tip to one of the greats, Elton John’s “Empty Garden” is a perfect tribute to his late friend, John Lennon. The back half of the song moves into a piano-heavy vibe that sounds a bit more like the bombastic rock hits that John released later in the '70s. 1. He still performs it. Elton John and Bernie Taupin collaborated to write a near-perfect love song on "Your Song." It also seems to predict Elton’s mercurial trajectory from awkward, bespectacled, music-obsessed schoolkid to stratosphere-conquering, glam-outfitted pop astronaut. The single’s lyrics are another product of Bernie Taupin’s genius, setting a perfect background for a night out on the town. The titular song off John’s seventh studio album is often regarded as one of the singer’s best. John, Elton ~ Greatest Hits Amazon.de. Saturday! Piano bar gospel. This dark, seven-minute hit revisits Elton’s suicidal late 1960s feelings as a struggling, musician engaged to be married. Elton’s strangest hit, penned as he imagined looking down at his dead body. The song’s lyrics gives a nod to Ben E. King’s hit “Spanish Harlem” in its opening lines, while John’s musical composition provides a masterclass on all that can be done in a five minute song. It was a Top 10 hit for Elton in 1970 … Recorded when Sir Elton Hercules John was still Pinner, Middlesex teenager Reg Dwight, a classically trained pub pianist and occasional session musician. The song clocks in at well over six minutes, but John reportedly wouldn’t allow any to be cut. As the singer-songwriter sets off on one last bombastic world tour, we rank his greatest 50 songs, Last modified on Tue 9 Jul 2019 14.22 BST. Elton John and John Reid's Explosive Relationship, Watch Elton John's George Michael Tribute, See the First Trailer for the Elton John Biopic, Elton John and Putin Have a Better Relationship Than the U.S. and Russia, Elton John Performed at the Royal Wedding. Released in November 1974, it spans the years 1970 to 1974, compiling ten of John's singles, with one track variation for releases in North America and for Europe and Australia. 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. This trademark big ballad about unrequited love was initially a hit in 1974 before the combined star power of G&E gave them a trans-Atlantic 90s No.1. Minutes, but John reportedly wouldn ’ t even start with the Tony Danza jokes Mad ”. Osbourne doesn ’ t even start when making their way through the expansive catalogue of Elton John spanning Hits. 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