Track Listing

1. Bennie And The Jets
2. Philadelphia Freedom
3. Daniel
4. Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long Long Time)
5. I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues
6. Tiny Dancer
7. Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me
8. I Want Love
9. Candle In The Wind
10. Crocodile Rock
11. I'm Still Standing
12. Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)
13. Your Song
14. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
15. Sacrifice
16. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
17. Tinderbox
18. Are You Ready For Love

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #696 in Music
• Released on: 2007-03-26
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds
• Running time: 80 minutes

CD Description
'Rocket Man - The Definitive Hits' brings together eighteenclassic tracks from Elton John's career so far. Featuring twelve UK top ten hits, the album includes such memorable songs such as 'Your Song', 'Sacrifice' and 'Candle In The Wind'while showcasing the unique song writing partnership of Elton John and Bernie Taupin. The new single 'Tinderbox' is also included.

Customer Reviews

Go for the U.S Version
Although the U.K. release has its merits I'd strongly recommend the American version. It includes Don't Go Breaking My Heart, Sacrfice, Island girl and Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds and that alone makes the U.S. release more definitve of Elton at his comercial and artistic peak. Let us hope Amazon begins to stock the North American variant sonner rather than later!!!!!

Great compilation
If you don't already have 'Greatest Hits' or 'The Very Best Of' this is a fine collection to get. Obviously in 18 tracks you are not going to be able to cover all the great songs (or even a small percentage) Elton John and Bernie Taupin have written over the last 38 years.

I would change a few tracks myself. 'Tiny Dancer' was never a single in the UK. Although liked by fans (and me), as was shown at the recent Diana concert it isn't known by the majority of people and went down like a lead balloon. I would have replaced it with 'Border Song' another early classic.

Its nice to see a few tracks from two of his recent albums. 'I Want Love' from Songs from the West Coast, and 'Tinderbox' from The Captain and the Kid. Both really catchy singles off respectively the two best albums he has made since the 1970's probably.

This is also a fine way to introduce yourself to one of the UK's finest ever popular songwriting teams. John/Taupin are up there with Lennon/McCartney. So if you haven't bothered to listen to Elton up to now this is a good place to start.

60 and still going strong
I first started collecting Elton John music when I heard Rocket man back in the 70's. I bought all old ones too, including Tumbleweed and Madman, and then went on to watch in awe as Elton turned into the superstar he still is today.

Every album over the past 40 years (!) is different. This one focuses mainly on the well-known material, but gives a taster of some of the older songs too. It would have been better to have been a double (or triple) CD with a few more songs from the early 70's too. But maybe we'll get that later.

Remember the "Your song" was written in 1969.

So buy this album, and then start to find out about the man who is without doubt the UK's most successful rock star of all time