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Greatest Hits

Elton’s first compilation/greatest hits album was met with great success. It spent 10 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, remaining on that list for two years. It is his best-selling album to date and received RIAA’s coveted diamond certification in the US and Canada. The album also reached No. 1 in the UK, spending 11 of its 84 weeks on that chart at that position, and in Australia.

BPI status: Platinum
RIAA status: Diamond

Tracklist

  1. 1.Your Song4:00
  2. 2.Daniel 3:53
  3. 3.Honky Cat 5:12
  4. 4.Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 3:14
  5. 5.Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting) 4:52
  6. 6.Rocket Man (I Think It’s Going To Be A Long Long Time) 4:41
  7. 7.Bennie And The Jets 5:11
  8. 8.Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me 5:36
  9. 9.Border Song 3:20
  10. 10.Crocodile Rock 3:55

Liner Notes
Music & Lyrics by ELTON JOHN & BERNIE TAUPIN
Produced by GUS DUDGEON
Orchestral Arrangements by PAUL BUCKMASTER & DEL NEWMAN
Recorded at Trident Studios, London, UK; Château d’Hérouville, Hérouville, FR; Caribou Ranch, Nederland, CO, US