Neha Patil (Editor)

The Very Best of Elton John

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Released
  
1 October 1990

Length
  
2:17:56

Artist
  
Elton John

Label
  
The Rocket Record Company

Recorded
  
1970–1990

The Very Best of Elton John (1990)
  
The One (1992)

Release date
  
1 October 1990

The Very Best of Elton John httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediaen771Ejt

Producer
  
Gus Dudgeon, Clive Franks, Chris Thomas, Don Was

Genres
  
Rock music, Pop music, Pop rock

Similar
  
Elton John albums, Rock music albums

Elton john your song


The Very Best of Elton John is a greatest hits compilation album by Elton John, released in October 1990. His first career-retrospective album, and fourth official greatest-hits album overall, it was released in the United Kingdom and throughout Europe, and in other countries such as Japan and Australia, but not in the United States, where the box set To Be Continued... was released the following month instead.

Contents

The album spans his second album Elton John in 1970 to the successful then most-recent 1989 album Sleeping with the Past. After the huge hit that was the double A-sided "Sacrifice/Healing Hands" single, which was the third best-selling single of 1990 in the United Kingdom, the album became an instant smash in that country. It spent its first two weeks at #1 and then nine strong weeks at #2. It was kept from the top during all nine weeks by Madonna's Immaculate Collection. In all the album spent 145 weeks inside the UK top 200 album chart, making a total of 11 re-entries, and it was certified 9× Platinum by the BPI on 1 March 1995.

It includes a total of 28 hit singles plus the new songs "Easier to Walk Away" and "You Gotta Love Someone", which also made the charts between 1990 and 1991.

The release also spawned a music video compilation, which was originally released on both laserdisc and VHS, and reissued on DVD.

Track listing

Disc one
Disc two
  • Track 25 is different on European version of the album. "Whispers" from Sleeping with the Past takes the place of "Passengers".
  • "Pinball Wizard", "The Bitch Is Back", "Passengers" and "I Don't Wanna Go on With You Like That" are excised from the vinyl and cassette versions of the compilation.
  • The timings are different on the back cover and the actual CD. On Disc 1, "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" is listed as 6:12, while the actual song runs at 5:38 and "Philadelphia Freedom" runs at 5:42, rather at 5:19. On Disc 2, the back cover shows Song For Guy running at 5:02, but the actual track runs at 6:40 (the album length of the song). The same applies for "Nikita", which the back cover states for 4:53 but the actual song plays at 5:44. "I Don't Wanna Go on With You Like That" fades slightly earlier on the CD (4:00) instead of the back cover's listing of 4:33.

    • Music video compilation

    1. "Your Song" (Top of the Pops 1971 live version)
    2. "Daniel" (live German 1973 version)
    3. "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" (Top of the Pops 1973 live version)
    4. "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" (with Kiki Dee)
    5. "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" (BBC Live Christmas Show version)
    6. "Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long Long Time)" (live Wembley 1977 version)
    7. "Blue Eyes"
    8. "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues"
    9. "I'm Still Standing"
    10. "Kiss the Bride"
    11. "Sad Songs (Say So Much)"
    12. "Passengers"
    13. "Nikita"
    14. "Wrap Her Up"
    15. "Candle in the Wind" (live in Australia 1986 version)
    16. "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" (live in Prince's Trust 1987 version)
    17. "I Don't Wanna Go on with You Like That"
    18. "Philadelphia Freedom" (live in Verona 1989 version)
    19. "Sacrifice"
    20. "You Gotta Love Someone"

    Songs

    1Your Song4:02
    2Rocket Man4:42
    3Honky Cat5:13

    References

    The Very Best of Elton John Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA