Elton John videography
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| Elton John videography discography | |
|---|---|
 John in 1971, during filming for his video of Your Song | |
| Music videos | 170 |
| Video Albums | 17 |
The videography of English singer, composer and pianist Elton John consists of 170 music videos and 17 video albums. Since 1970, John has continually released promotional music videos, beginning with "Your Song" and only sporadically releasing videos thereafter. It was not until Visions in 1981, a release that included music videos of every song from his album The Fox, as well as the rise of MTV, that he began to release videos more frequently. He had usually appeared in his music videos, but after 2001, John began appearing less and less in his own videos, sometimes opting to have other actors, such famous names as Justin Timberlake ("This Train Don't Stop There Anymore") and Robert Downey, Jr. ("I Want Love"), lip-synch the lyrics.
Music videos[]
1970-1980[]
| Year | Title | Album | Music & Words | Art Direction | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | "Your Song" | Elton John | Elton John & Bernie Taupin | Rien van Wijk (TopPop) | [1] |
| 1971 | "Your Song" - Paparazzi Version | [2] | |||
| "Take Me To The Pilot" | Ric Birch (GTK) | [3] | |||
| "Sixty Years On" - Live Version | 17-11-70 | UNI USA | [4] | ||
| 1972 | "Crocodile Rock" | Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player | [5] | ||
| 1973 | "Step into Christmas" | Non-album single | [6] | ||
| 1974 | "Whatever Gets You thru the Night" (with John Lennon) | Walls and Bridges | John Lennon | John Lennon | [7] |
| 1976 | "Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word" | Blue Moves | Elton John & Bernie Taupin | Lindsey Clennell | [8] |
| "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" (with Kiki Dee) | Non-album single | Ann Orson & Carte Blanche | Mike Mansfield | [9] | |
| 1978 | "Ego" | Elton John & Bernie Taupin | Michael Lindsay-Hogg | [10] | |
| "Part-Time Love" | A Single Man | Elton John & Gary Osborne | [11] | ||
| "Song for Guy" | Elton John | Countdown Australia | [12] | ||
| 1979 | "Are You Ready For Love" | The Thom Bell Sessions | LeRoy Bell, Casey James & Thom Bell | [13] | |
| 1980 | "Les Aveux" (with France Gall) | Non-album single | Elton John & Michel Berger | [14] | |
| "Donner Pour Donner" (with France Gall) | B-Side of "Les Aveux" | Michel Berger & Bernie Taupin | [15] | ||
| "Little Jeannie" | 21 at 33 | Elton John & Gary Osborne | Plattenküche Germany WDR | [16] | |
| "Sartorial Eloquence" | Elton John & Tom Robinson | [17] | |||
| "Chasing The Crown" | Elton John & Bernie Taupin | [18] |
1981-1982 - Visions: The Fox Videos[]
| Year | Title | Album | Music & Words | Art Direction | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | "Breaking Down Barriers" | The Fox | Elton John & Gary Osborne | Russell Mulcahy | [19] |
| "Heart In The Right Place" | [20] | ||||
| "Just Like Belgium" | Elton John & Bernie Taupin | [21] | |||
| "Nobody Wins" | Jean-Paul Dréau & Gary Osborne | [22] | |||
| "Fascist Faces" | Elton John & Bernie Taupin | [23] | |||
| "Carla/Etude" | Elton John | [24] | |||
| "Fanfare" | Elton John & James Newton Howard | [25] | |||
| "Chloe" | Elton John & Gary Osborne | [26] | |||
| "Heels Of The Wind" | Elton John & Bernie Taupin | [27] | |||
| "Elton's Song" | Elton John & Tom Robinson | [28] | |||
| "The Fox" | Elton John & Bernie Taupin | [29] | |||
| "Je Veux De La Tendresse" | B-Side of "Nobody Wins" | Jean-Paul Dréau | [30] |
p.s.: The album The Fox was released on May 20, 1981. However, Visions became available only in 1982.
1982-1989[]
| Year | Title | Album | Music & Words | Art Direction | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | "Blue Eyes" | Jump Up! | Elton John & Gary Osborne | Stephen Priest | [31] |
| "Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)" | Elton John & Bernie Taupin | [32] | |||
| "Ball and Chain" | Elton John & Gary Osborne | [33] | |||
| 1983 | "I'm Still Standing" | Too Low for Zero | Elton John & Bernie Taupin | Russell Mulcahy | [34] |
| "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues" | Elton John, Davey Johnstone & Bernie Taupin | [35] | |||
| "Kiss the Bride" | Elton John & Bernie Taupin | Godley & Creme | [36] | ||
| "Cold As Christmas (In The Middle Of The Year)" | [37] | ||||
| 1984 | "Sad Songs (Say So Much)" | Breaking Hearts | Elton John & Bernie Taupin | Russell Mulcahy | [38] |
| "Who Wears These Shoes?" | Just Jaeckin | [39] | |||
| "In Neon" | Bernie Taupin | [40] | |||
| "Passengers" | Elton John, Davey Johnstone, Phineas Mkhize & Bernie Taupin | Simon Milne | [41] | ||
| 1985 | "Act of War" (with Millie Jackson) | Ice on Fire | Elton John & Bernie Taupin | [42] | |
| "Wrap Her Up" | John, Johnstone, Fred Mandel, Charlie Morgan, Paul Westwood & Taupin | Russell Mulcahy | [43] | ||
| "Nikita" | Elton John & Bernie Taupin | Ken Russell | [44] | ||
| "Cry to Heaven" | [45] | ||||
| "That's What Friends Are For" (with Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder & Gladys Knight) | Friends | Carole Bayer Sager & Burt Bacharach | John House | [46] | |
| "That's What Friends Are For" (with Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder & Gladys Knight) - Version 2 | [47] | ||||
| 1986 | "Heartache All Over the World" | Leather Jackets | Elton John & Bernie Taupin | Mike Brady | [48] |
| "Paris" | [49] | ||||
| "Slow Rivers" (with Cliff Richard) | [50] | ||||
| 1987 | "Flames of Paradise" (with Jennifer Rush) | Heart over Mind | Bruce Roberts & Andy Goldmark | Nick Morris | [51] |
| "Candle in the Wind" (with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra) | Live in Australia | Elton John & Bernie Taupin | Mark Fitzgerald | [52] | |
| "Your Song" (with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra) | [53] | ||||
| "Take Me to the Pilot" (with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra) | [54] | ||||
| 1988 | "I Don't Wanna Go on with You Like That" | Reg Strikes Back | Russell Mulcahy | [55] | |
| "Town of Plenty" | [56] | ||||
| "A Word in Spanish" | [57] | ||||
| 1989 | "Healing Hands" | Sleeping with the Past | [58] | ||
| "Sacrifice" | Alek Keshishian | [59] | |||
| "Club at the End of the Street" | Derek Hayes | [60] | |||
| "Whispers" | [61] |
1990-1999[]
| Year | Title | Album | Music & Words | Art Direction | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | "You Gotta Love Someone" | The Very Best of Elton John | Elton John & Bernie Taupin | Andy Morahan | [62] |
| "Easier to Walk Away" | [63] | ||||
| 1991 | "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" (with George Michael) | Duets | Andy Morahan | [64] | |
| 1992 | "The One" | The One | Russell Mulcahy | [65] | |
| "Runaway Train" (with Eric Clapton) | Denise Thorne | [66] | |||
| "The Last Song" | Gus Van Sant | [67] | |||
| "Simple Life" | Russell Mulcahy | [68] | |||
| 1993 | "True Love" (with Kiki Dee) | Duets | Cole Porter | Vadim Jean | [69] |
| "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" (with RuPaul) | Ann Orson & Carte Blanche | Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato | [70] | ||
| "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" (with RuPaul) - Remix Video | [71] | ||||
| "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" (with Marcella Detroit) | Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson | Rainer Thieding | [72] | ||
| 1994 | "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" | The Lion King | Elton John & Tim Rice | Matthew Amos | [73] |
| "Circle of Life" | Richard Baskin | [74] | |||
| "Whatever Gets You thru the Night" - Version 2 | Walls and Bridges | John Lennon | John Canemaker | [75] | |
| 1995 | "Believe" | Made in England | Elton John & Bernie Taupin | Marcus Nispel | [76] |
| "Made in England" | Howard Greenhalgh | [77] | |||
| "Blessed" | David Vital-Durand and Raphaël Vital-Durand | [78] | |||
| "Please" | Howard Greenhalgh | [79] | |||
| 1996 | "You Can Make History (Young Again)" | Love Songs | David Dobkin | [80] | |
| "Live Like Horses" (with Luciano Pavarotti) - Single Version | The Big Picture | Federico Brugia | [81] | ||
| "Live Like Horses" (with Luciano Pavarotti) - Original Video | Peter Demetris | [82] | |||
| 1997 | "Something About the Way You Look Tonight" | Tim Royes | [83] | ||
| "Recover Your Soul" | Marcus Nispel | [84] | |||
| "Candle in the Wind 1997" - Lyric Video | Non-album single | VH1 | [85] | ||
| "Perfect Day" (with Lou Reed & Various Artists) | Lou Reed | Gregory Rood | [86] | ||
| 1999 | "Written in the Stars" (with LeAnn Rimes) | Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida | Elton John & Tim Rice | Harvey Bertram-Brown and Carolyn Corben | [87] |
2000-2009[]
| Year | Title | Album | Music & Words | Art Direction | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | "Someday Out of the Blue (Theme From El Dorado)" | The Road to El Dorado soundtrack | Elton John, Patrick Leonard & Tim Rice | Joseph Kahn and Bibo Bergeron | [88] |
| 2001 | "I Want Love" | Songs from the West Coast | Elton John & Bernie Taupin | Sam Taylor-Wood | [89] |
| "This Train Don't Stop There Anymore" | David LaChapelle | [90] | |||
| "Original Sin" | [91] | ||||
| "Original Sin" - Dan-O-Rama Video Remix | Dan-O-Rama | [92] | |||
| 2002 | "Your Song" (with Alessandro Safina) | Non-album single | Tom Bird | [93] | |
| "Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word" (Blue featuring Elton John) | One Love | Max Giwa and Dania Pasquini | [94] | ||
| "Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word" (Blue featuring Elton John) - 2nd Version | [95] | ||||
| 2003 | "Are You Ready for Love" (Ashley Beedle Mix) | Non-album single | LeRoy Bell, Casey James & Thom Bell | Kate Dawkins | [96] |
| "The Heart of Every Girl" | Mona Lisa Smile soundtrack | Elton John & Bernie Taupin | Nigel Dick | [97] | |
| 2004 | "Answer in the Sky" | Peachtree Road | David LaChapelle | [98] | |
| "All That I'm Allowed (I'm Thankful)" | [99] | ||||
| "All That I'm Allowed (I'm Thankful)" - Single Edit | [100] | ||||
| "Turn the Lights Out When You Leave" | Sam Taylor-Wood | [101] | |||
| 2005 | "Electricity" | Billy Elliot the Musical | Elton John & Lee Hall | Stephen Daldry | [102] |
| "Electricity" - More Liam Version | [103] | ||||
| "Your Song" (with Patti LaBelle) | Classic Moments | Elton John & Bernie Taupin | Various / TV One | [104] | |
| "Ghetto Gospel" (with Tupac Shakur) | Loyal to the Game | Elton John, Tupac Shakur & Bernie Taupin | Nzingha Stewart | [105] | |
| "Tears in Heaven" (with Ozzy Osbourne, Rod Stewart & Various Artists) | Non-album single | Eric Clapton & Will Jennings | Marcus Raboy | [106] | |
| 2006 | "Tinderbox" | The Captain & the Kid | Elton John & Bernie Taupin | Julian Gibbs and Julian House | [107] |
| 2008 | "Joseph, Better You than Me" (with The Killers & Neil Tennant) | Non-album single | Elton John, Brandon Flowers & Neil Tennant | Daniel Drysdale and Tyler Trautman | [108] |
| 2009 | "Tiny Dancer (Hold Me Closer)" (with Ironik & Chipmunk) | No Point in Wasting Tears | Elton John, Ironik & Bernie Taupin | Max & Dania | [109] |
2010-2019[]
| Year | Title | Album | Music & Words | Art Direction | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | "If It Wasn't For Bad" (with Leon Russell) | The Union | Leon Russell | Paul McKeown and One Hand Clapping | [110] |
| 2012 | "Sad" (vs Pnau) | Good Morning to the Night | Elton John, Thom Bell, Pnau & Bernie Taupin | Julian House | [111] |
| 2013 | "Home Again" | The Diving Board | Elton John & Bernie Taupin | Brent Bonacorso | [112] |
| "Home Again" - Lyric Video | Elton John's YouTube Official Channel | [113] | |||
| "Oceans Away" - Lyric Video | [114] | ||||
| "Mexican Vacation (Kids In The Candlelight)" | James Marcus Haney | [115] | |||
| "Face To Face" (with Gary Barlow) | Since I Saw You Last | Gary Barlow & John Shanks | Steve Power | [116] | |
| 2014 | "Save Rock and Roll" (with Fall Out Boy) | Save Rock and Roll | Fall Out Boy | Adam Donald and Andrew Zaeh | [117] |
| "I Wish We Were Leaving" (with Bright Light Bright Light) | Life Is Easy | Bright Light Bright Light | Johnny Lochland | [118] | |
| "God Only Knows" (with Brian Wilson & Various Artists) | Non-album single | Brian Wilson & Tony Asher | Jonas Euvremer & François Rousselet | [119] | |
| "Harmony" | Goodbye Yellow Brick Road | Elton John & Bernie Taupin | Tam Johnstone | ||
| 2015 | "Oceans Away" | The Diving Board | Toby Wosskow and Colin Bates | [120] | |
| "Looking Up" | Wonderful Crazy Night | Joe Marshall | [121] | ||
| 2016 | "Blue Wonderful" | Thibaut Duverneix | [122] | ||
| "In The Name Of You" | Rob Chandler | [123] | |||
| "A Good Heart" | Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen | [124] | |||
| "All In The Name" (with Bright Light Bright Light) | Choreography | Bright Light Bright Light | Rod Thomas & Santiago Felipe | [125] | |
| 2017 | "Two Fingers Of Whiskey" (with Jack White) | The American Epic Sessions | Elton John & Bernie Taupin | Bernard MacMahon | [126] |
| "Bennie and the Jets" | Goodbye Yellow Brick Road | Jack Whiteley & Laura Brownhill | [127] | ||
| "Tiny Dancer" | Madman Across The Water | Max Weiland | [128] | ||
| "Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time)" | Honky Château | Majid Adin and Stephen McNally | [129] | ||
| 2019 | "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again" (with Taron Egerton) | Rocketman Soundtrack | Kii Arens | [130] | |
| "Never Too Late" - Lyric Video | The Lion King 2019 | Elton John & Tim Rice | Jon Favreau | [131] |
2020-2021[]
| Year | Title | Album | Music & Words | Art Direction | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again" (with Taron Egerton) [Purple Disco Machine Remix] | Rocketman Soundtrack | Elton John & Bernie Taupin | Kii Arens | [132] |
| "Ordinary Man" (with Ozzy Osbourne) | Ordinary Man | Ozzy Osbourne, Elton John, Chad Smith, Duff McKagan, William Walsh & Andrew Wotman | Stephen Lee Carr | [133] | |
| "Learn To Fly" (with Surfaces) - Lyric Video | The Lockdown Sessions | Surfaces | Studio Showoff | [134] | |
| "Learn To Fly" (with Surfaces) | [135] | ||||
| "Learn To Fly" (with Surfaces) - Extended Video | [136] | ||||
| "Sing Me No Sad Songs" - Lyric Video | Elton: Jewel Box | Elton John & Bernie Taupin | Elton John's YouTube Official Channel | [137] | |
| "Regimental Sgt. Zippo" | [138] | ||||
| "Watching The Planes Go By" - Lyric Video | [139] | ||||
| "I Can't Go On Living Without You" - Lyric Video | [140] | ||||
| "Here's To The Next Time" [Piano/Tambourine Demo Version] - Lyric Video | Elton John | [141] | |||
| "The Pink Phantom" (with Gorillaz & 6lack) | Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez / The Lockdown Sessions | Damon Albarn, Remi Kabaka Jr. & 6lack | Jamie Hewlett | [142] | |
| "Lose Each Other" (with Teyana Taylor) | The Album | Teyana Taylor, Ryan Ridgley, Bibi Bourelly, Mike Dean, Uforo Ebong & Raymond Komba | Teyana Taylor | [143] | |
| "Personal Shopper" (with Steven Wilson) | The Future Bites | Steven Wilson | Lucrecia Taormina | [144] | |
| 2021 | "Baby I Miss You" [Band Demo Version] - Lyric Video | Elton: Jewel Box | Elton John & Bernie Taupin | Elton John's YouTube Official Channel | [145] |
| "The Flowers Will Never Die" [Piano Demo Version] - Lyric Video | [146] | ||||
| "Scarecrow" [Piano/Tambourine Demo Version] - Lyric Video | [147] | ||||
| "Chosen Family" (with Rina Sawayama) - Performance Lyric Video | The Lockdown Sessions | Rina Sawayama & Danny L Harle | [148] | ||
| "Cold Heart" (with Dua Lipa) - Pnau Remix | Elton John, Bernie Taupin & Pnau | Raman Djafari | [149] | ||
| "Cold Heart" (with Dua Lipa) [The Blessed Madonna Remix] - Visualiser | [150] | ||||
| "Cold Heart" (with Dua Lipa) [PS1 Remix] - Visualiser | James Stevens | [151] | |||
| "Cold Heart" (with Dua Lipa) [Claptone Remix] - Visualiser | [152] | ||||
| "Finish Line" (with Stevie Wonder) - Lyric Video | Elton John, Roman Campolo, Ali Tamposi & Andrew Wotman | Jared Shelton | [153] | ||
| "Merry Christmas" (with Ed Sheeran) | Equals / The Lockdown Sessions | Elton John & Ed Sheeran | Jason Koenig | [154] | |
| "Merry Christmas" (with Ed Sheeran) - Lyric Video | 351 Studio | [155] | |||
| "Sausage Rolls for Everyone" (with Ed Sheeran & LadBaby) | non-album single | Mark Hoyle, Roxanne Hoyle, Elton John, Ed Sheeran & Steve McCutcheon | [156] |
David LaChapelle's the Red Piano Music Videos[]
Videos directed by photographer David LaChapelle for Elton John's the Red Piano stage at the Colosseum Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas.
| Year | Title | Original year | Original album | Music & Words | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | "Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time)" | 1972 | Honky Château | Elton John & Bernie Taupin | [157] |
| "Daniel" | 1973 | Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player | [158] | ||
| "Candle in the Wind" | Goodbye Yellow Brick Road | [159] | |||
| "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" | [160] | ||||
| "The Bitch Is Back" | 1974 | Caribou | [161] | ||
| "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" | [162] | ||||
| "Philadelphia Freedom" | 1975 | Non-album single | [163] | ||
| "Pinball Wizard" | Pete Townshend | [164] | |||
| "I'm Still Standing" | 1983 | Too Low For Zero | Elton John & Bernie Taupin | [165] | |
| "I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues" | Elton John, Davey Johnstone & Bernie Taupin | ||||
| "Believe" | 1995 | Made in England | Elton John & Bernie Taupin | [166] | |
| 2006 | "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" | 1973 | Goodbye Yellow Brick Road | [167] | |
| "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" | 1975 | Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy | [168] |
Video albums[]
| Title | Album details |
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| To Russia with Elton |
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| Live In Central Park |
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| Visions |
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| The Videosingles |
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| The Night Time Concert |
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| The Breaking Hearts Tour |
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| Live in Australia |
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| The Very Best of Elton John |
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| Live in Barcelona |
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| The Last Song Video Single |
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| Love Songs |
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| An Audience With Elton John |
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| One Night Only: The Greatest Hits Live at Madison Square Garden |
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| Dream Ticket |
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| Elton 60 – Live at Madison Square Garden |
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| The Red Piano |
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| The Million Dollar Piano |
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References[]
Categories:
- Elton John video albums
- Videographies of British artists