@PabloBrown7 And in a year or less no one will care she sang anything. MTV bimbo network will be showing the next cute but no talent skank doing the strip videos.
If in 38 years anyone even knows who Adele even was I'll be shocked. Other than her parents.
this song changed my life while on extacy at a rave in 99, I know many people are against drugs, and I for one don't play around any more, but I was the happiest I ever been that night, thanks to this song am am now 32 and still remember that night
My friend's brother was an astronaut. When he died before he got a chance to go into space, they played this at his funeral. R.I.P. Richard O'Donnel. Still makes me cry thinking about it...
The clip at the beginning was in 72,but the one where he's wearing the beret is from 77.The night he announced that this was going to be his last show..
I've always been amazed how they wrote songs. Never togther. One wrote the words and the other the music. They seemed to always get it right. Fast, slow it always fit.
Excellent find! Thanks for sharing... As I recall, "Honky Chateau" was one of the first albums to popularize the then-fledgling ARP synthesizer. Alan R Pearlman had left Moog, to form his own company.
@runningchance Everything in this video screams 40 years old. You don't even need the sound to figure that out. Not to mention the title which has 1972 in it. LOL, I hope you're joking...
I think this guy stole this song from American Idol's Haley. He could have at least changed some of the notes and words! I hope she files suit on him.
@runningchance hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. your a dumb ass
@runningchance You obviously never heard of Elton John's album (Yellow Brick Road ) Elton sang this song on it and it was played on the radio about 100 times a day in the early 70"s
@runningchance wow, you ARE dumb, this vid is from like the 70's i'm pretty sure she wasn't even born yet to steal it from Elton John....plus Elton is way better than her, she's good but not better than John
@runningchance If you really believe that Mr John stole this song from American Idol's Haley, then you are a sad bastard - not to mention an INCREDIBLY ignorant one.
Elton's version of the song "Rocket Man" (which was recorded in 1972) was the ORIGINAL version - and indeed the DEFINITIVE one.
Are you really a sad bastard, i wonder ..... or are you a wind-up merchant?!
@runningchance , are you on something? Seriously man, come on. Ether your stupid and serious, or just plain stupid. First of all, how can you refer to Elton as " this guy"? He's not just any guy, he is the most talented and amazing musician to have ever lived. And an amazing person. His talent goes beyond any American Idol crap. Second of all, this song was written before American Idol was even an idea! How can you possibly be this idiotic!?!?
As I watch this video I see an ad for saving the dogs in Bali up in the right hand corner of this page, I which I could save all the animals in the world that suffer and die at the human hands....
@winfan1978 I see an ad for a pedicure. I wish I can give all the ugly nails out there in ugly nail land and just give them a pedicure. human hands don't forget about the manicure....oh god the humanity...
ok listen this is one of my favorite songs ever but those red glasses kinda make look like bubbles from trailer park boys....wish i was alive in the 70s :( id be a rocket man
I agree PinkTheFloydable...Look at the music, NOT the person. He's a heck of a performer.
I was 20 yrs old back in 1973, stationed in Thailand during the VN war. Always took the time daily to hear his Yellow Brick Road Albumn even then...! Even amidst all that was going on there.
Keep on rollon' Elton, God Bless You, and the good memories I had during those years...!...
I agree PinkTheFloydable...Look at the music, NOT the person. He's a heck of a performer.
I was 20 yrs old back in 1973, stationed in Thailand during the VN war. Always took the time daily to hear his Yellow Brick Road Albumn even then...! Even amidst all that was going on there.
Keep on rollon' Elton, God Bless You, and the good memories I had during those years...!
Why do people feel the need to point out he's gay? is this news? he's been gay for years ffs but thanks anyway for your usefull information, now we've got that out of the way can we move on?.
@Fluffski2006 I wish every straight person including myself had to be gay for a day. Then maybe people would realize how retarded they are and stop making a big deal about something that doesn't matter. And then we could listen to Elton John in peace.
@Fluffski2006 Their insignificant ignorant children,ignore them. Some day when they grow up, should they ever grow up, and saw the comments they made they'd be embarrassed.
I don't think this is live. I compared it to the original version and as it turns out, this IS the original version just turned the volume down. thanks for the video! :)
to the people comparing Stevie and Elton John. They are two totally different styles so how can you say one is better? Both are equally as good at what they do.
Some of my earliest memories of my life are of hearing this song on the radio. My parents were also huge fans of his, and they bought all of his records. I heard Elton, Carole King, The Beatles, CCR, Neil Diamond and many others courtesy of WABC radio in New York, and my parents of course.
wtf why are there only 13,111 views?, man i love this song, eltons voice is so beautiful. i guess some people have no taste in good music like this, or it could be because elton isn't new anymore and kids wanna listen to whatever bs mtv and the radio keep shoving down our throats now in days, but me i just puke it all back up, cause i'm still hungry for all the good and classic music, sir elton has an absolutely amazing voice. and he still does. i'm a rocket man and i always will.
Yes I don't like my age now! LOL But I did grow up and in the best part of my life the music was phenomenal, and I went to SO MANY GREAT concerts! Thanks
I love this song
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headtufino 3 months ago
@FlashbackToThe1970z
VERY talented guy,yes.
billyboy7465 4 months ago
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too bad he's gay
billyboy7465 4 months ago
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How is it a bad thing?
CrazyClown599 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
@billyboy7465 to bad your straight
TheIopio 1 month ago
@PabloBrown7 And in a year or less no one will care she sang anything. MTV bimbo network will be showing the next cute but no talent skank doing the strip videos.
If in 38 years anyone even knows who Adele even was I'll be shocked. Other than her parents.
as435943 5 months ago
@runningchance You had to Google Elton John?? You are 46, how do you not know who he is? Where have you been living for the last 40 years?
28paul1978 5 months ago
@28paul1978 I'm 16 and I know who he is.
Dovakiin1337 4 months ago
@PabloBrown7
Can Adele play like Elton? Will we listen to "her" albums in 42 years?
I don't think so.
the81kid 5 months ago
I've loved Mick since I'm 12 back in 1980.....I might be43...but I'm hot and rock to this tune!
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this song changed my life while on extacy at a rave in 99, I know many people are against drugs, and I for one don't play around any more, but I was the happiest I ever been that night, thanks to this song am am now 32 and still remember that night
TheJeremie123 5 months ago
My friend's brother was an astronaut. When he died before he got a chance to go into space, they played this at his funeral. R.I.P. Richard O'Donnel. Still makes me cry thinking about it...
DrakeKesda 6 months ago
At Caesar's Palace from Sept 28 to Oct 23, 2011. Vegas, baby, Vegas!
misterfunnybones 6 months ago
The clip at the beginning was in 72,but the one where he's wearing the beret is from 77.The night he announced that this was going to be his last show..
mrgb46 6 months ago
wow
and today we have "take that" and "adele". what the hell happened people?!
the81kid 7 months ago
only the price has changed the theory neva will
lazza5551 7 months ago
Best performance of the song probably. He doesn't even try to do the falsetto parts anymore
bigdjindustriez 7 months ago
I've always been amazed how they wrote songs. Never togther. One wrote the words and the other the music. They seemed to always get it right. Fast, slow it always fit.
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dnnjer 7 months ago
Excellent find! Thanks for sharing... As I recall, "Honky Chateau" was one of the first albums to popularize the then-fledgling ARP synthesizer. Alan R Pearlman had left Moog, to form his own company.
covenstead 8 months ago
@runningchance Everything in this video screams 40 years old. You don't even need the sound to figure that out. Not to mention the title which has 1972 in it. LOL, I hope you're joking...
joidimo 8 months ago
Eargasm !
kyra023 9 months ago
Someone Get @cole15miller a medal... or a cookie. Either one should make an idiot happy.
bloodbath500 10 months ago
LOL someone get @runningchance a medal!!
ShakexJunt 10 months ago
I think this guy stole this song from American Idol's Haley. He could have at least changed some of the notes and words! I hope she files suit on him.
runningchance 10 months ago
@runningchance LOL, well played
aoeiifreak 10 months ago
@aoeiifreak how. your as stupid as him
theyellowsubmaine 9 months ago
@runningchance dude your fucking dumb hes been singing sense the 70s and your talking about idol from 2000s your the dumbest motherfucker ever
cole15miller 10 months ago
@runningchance fokk you!!! up your ASS!!
stfupop 9 months ago
@runningchance hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. your a dumb ass
theyellowsubmaine 9 months ago
@runningchance You obviously never heard of Elton John's album (Yellow Brick Road ) Elton sang this song on it and it was played on the radio about 100 times a day in the early 70"s
oldsmar2 9 months ago
@oldsmar2 Uh...that would've been the album "Honky Chateau"...
expressdog1000 9 months ago
@expressdog1000 You are correct my mistake. Never the less it is an Elton John song.
oldsmar2 9 months ago
@runningchance HAhahaha you so stupid, this song was produce, recorded and made 30 years before American Idol even existed
Javbuff2008 9 months ago
@ runningchance I meant 35-40 years.
Javbuff2008 9 months ago
@runningchance wow, you ARE dumb, this vid is from like the 70's i'm pretty sure she wasn't even born yet to steal it from Elton John....plus Elton is way better than her, she's good but not better than John
46milleja 9 months ago
@runningchance If you really believe that Mr John stole this song from American Idol's Haley, then you are a sad bastard - not to mention an INCREDIBLY ignorant one.
Elton's version of the song "Rocket Man" (which was recorded in 1972) was the ORIGINAL version - and indeed the DEFINITIVE one.
Are you really a sad bastard, i wonder ..... or are you a wind-up merchant?!
TheEctomorph 8 months ago
@runningchance
you're a dumbass, nuff said.
CrazyClown599 5 months ago
@runningchance WOW YOU FUCKING DUMB ASS IT SAYS 1972 NOT 2011 LEARN TO READ YOU UNEDUCATED PICE OF FUCKING SHIT
tdragon142 5 months ago
@tdragon142 - I googled Elton John and guess what idiot, it says he is best known as the Lion King. What a lame joke! He ain't no rock star!
runningchance 5 months ago
@runningchance , are you on something? Seriously man, come on. Ether your stupid and serious, or just plain stupid. First of all, how can you refer to Elton as " this guy"? He's not just any guy, he is the most talented and amazing musician to have ever lived. And an amazing person. His talent goes beyond any American Idol crap. Second of all, this song was written before American Idol was even an idea! How can you possibly be this idiotic!?!?
MusicalBookworm12 3 weeks ago
I saw EJ live in Bangkok some years ago. He was fantastic!
SuperDouganderson 11 months ago
this isnt live. its the studio recording
123andy321 11 months ago
Bloody Americans!
Billyhadley1965yeah 11 months ago
How are there even 2 freakin dislikes? Some people just don't have a good taste for music.
PoorlyMadeCartoons 11 months ago
Anyone know what this song is about? My guess is that it's about a guy who gets snockered when he goes traveling on business.
davidrodgersNJ 11 months ago
@davidrodgersNJ r u british by chance?
darkgrunt66 11 months ago
@darkgrunt66 No, I'm American
davidrodgersNJ 11 months ago
As I watch this video I see an ad for saving the dogs in Bali up in the right hand corner of this page, I which I could save all the animals in the world that suffer and die at the human hands....
winfan1978 1 year ago
@winfan1978 what about the ones we eat?
logdogfrog 1 year ago
@winfan1978 I see an ad for a pedicure. I wish I can give all the ugly nails out there in ugly nail land and just give them a pedicure. human hands don't forget about the manicure....oh god the humanity...
macarthur19 11 months ago
This needs to be sung to astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of Gabby Giffords.
etong2002001 1 year ago
ok listen this is one of my favorite songs ever but those red glasses kinda make look like bubbles from trailer park boys....wish i was alive in the 70s :( id be a rocket man
hipeeps1103 1 year ago
"Oh, Rocket Man"
taschi71 1 year ago
Not to toss the word around loosely but here goes. Genius. Pure genius.
Musically, lyrically and emotionally this song has got it all.
fweekstir 1 year ago 11
Elton John's music was so cool it crossed radio formats! They used to play Elton on R&B stations in Detroit.
JEDI7ACEN 1 year ago 2
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"As Kurt Cobain said, "I wish I was gay, to piss off the homophobics". "
Whoa, I'm SCARED of that...
Discerning0ne 1 year ago
i wanna jam with this dude
pivotmastaa 1 year ago 2
One of the best songs to blaze to
otmmy 1 year ago 19
@otmmy fuck to the yes
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I agree PinkTheFloydable...Look at the music, NOT the person. He's a heck of a performer.
I was 20 yrs old back in 1973, stationed in Thailand during the VN war. Always took the time daily to hear his Yellow Brick Road Albumn even then...! Even amidst all that was going on there.
Keep on rollon' Elton, God Bless You, and the good memories I had during those years...!...
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I agree PinkTheFloydable...Look at the music, NOT the person. He's a heck of a performer.
I was 20 yrs old back in 1973, stationed in Thailand during the VN war. Always took the time daily to hear his Yellow Brick Road Albumn even then...! Even amidst all that was going on there.
Keep on rollon' Elton, God Bless You, and the good memories I had during those years...!
zoomie71 1 year ago
Thanks again Elton!!!
jgmol1 1 year ago
I feel lucky to be 18 years old in this time and still love this.
23runner4 1 year ago
Why do people feel the need to point out he's gay? is this news? he's been gay for years ffs but thanks anyway for your usefull information, now we've got that out of the way can we move on?.
Fluffski2006 1 year ago
@Fluffski2006 I wish every straight person including myself had to be gay for a day. Then maybe people would realize how retarded they are and stop making a big deal about something that doesn't matter. And then we could listen to Elton John in peace.
PinkTheFloydable 1 year ago
@PinkTheFloydable agreed
Fluffski2006 1 year ago
@PinkTheFloydable As Kurt Cobain said, "I wish I was gay, to piss off the homophobics".
wildwomenneverdie 1 year ago
@PinkTheFloydable
or black too...all hate needs to end
bladekutt 1 year ago
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zorgen12 11 months ago
@Fluffski2006 Their insignificant ignorant children,ignore them. Some day when they grow up, should they ever grow up, and saw the comments they made they'd be embarrassed.
zorgen12 11 months ago
bellísima canción!!!!!!
csotorios 1 year ago
I don't think this is live. I compared it to the original version and as it turns out, this IS the original version just turned the volume down. thanks for the video! :)
rapanalyst 1 year ago
sounds just like the album doesnt it guys?
Lightner445555555555 1 year ago
i would have loved to grow up during the 60's and 70's!!!! but im glad the music is still around!
mikenbeanz123 1 year ago
nice songs and nice beret ..with all this science I dont understand it is my job five days a week...
ameredon1 1 year ago
Great song for a cool and breezy day. It's just Elton!
love4marc 1 year ago
Great song for a cool and breezy day.
love4marc 1 year ago
I wonder if people disliked this because he's gay... He's amazing either way I say.
gman1225 1 year ago
@gman1225 Yes, it is too bad that there was such a reaction when he came out of the closet. It didn't bother me, I did and still do like his music.
145eddieb 1 year ago
this video just hits all the right notes and visuals. this is a one of a kind video. why so few views?
TigBench6 1 year ago
@TigBench6 um prob the lame lip sync ,,,gr8 tune
marktwain4 1 year ago
thanks for posting this beautiful video
partyspecialists 1 year ago
You can tell its lip syncd- @3:32 he pulls a way a second two soon
lonewolf091 1 year ago
to the people comparing Stevie and Elton John. They are two totally different styles so how can you say one is better? Both are equally as good at what they do.
justinden99 1 year ago
Some of my earliest memories of my life are of hearing this song on the radio. My parents were also huge fans of his, and they bought all of his records. I heard Elton, Carole King, The Beatles, CCR, Neil Diamond and many others courtesy of WABC radio in New York, and my parents of course.
VideoFanatic02 1 year ago 3
This brings me back : )
pennyandtaylor 1 year ago
studio version,,,
lennysrv 1 year ago
Great song...but Stevie Wonder is greater.
negroliscious 1 year ago
well said, Nigga
tomBesht 1 year ago
fucking amerans
tomBesht 1 year ago
Him and Billy Joel are irreplaceable
sandythebear 1 year ago
so beautiful
js1268 1 year ago
great balled song.
bukakee1 1 year ago
wtf why are there only 13,111 views?, man i love this song, eltons voice is so beautiful. i guess some people have no taste in good music like this, or it could be because elton isn't new anymore and kids wanna listen to whatever bs mtv and the radio keep shoving down our throats now in days, but me i just puke it all back up, cause i'm still hungry for all the good and classic music, sir elton has an absolutely amazing voice. and he still does. i'm a rocket man and i always will.
renegades1106 1 year ago
just hits the spot man..
Jayboy07t 1 year ago 32
Haha... Is that a request? I will make you like him, alright? All I will bring to your lesson, a pair of shades!
sylphilharmonic 1 year ago
ROCK ON SIR ELTON JOHN born march 25th 1947 -
years active 1964 - present
Multi80sfan 1 year ago
i saw him in 1976
his songs are timeless
hipoldlady57 1 year ago
Elton john rocks the best piano player in the world without question.....LOVE HIM!!!!!!!!!!! EVERYONE OF HIS PERFORMANCES AMAZING!!!
MrConcierge1 1 year ago
@MrConcierge1 That would be Stevie Wonder...greatest Piano, songwriter/singer.
negroliscious 1 year ago
elton john is great, always. no matter what.....
recasanova47 1 year ago
yeah,,he could sing lol
DavelovesRealMusic 1 year ago
Ooooh, in 1972 he can sing............
HEV29 1 year ago
it is the best i love it
OWZ0N3 1 year ago
This is his best live. <3
Tzini9 2 years ago
@Tzini9 ... this is not a live... but the album version ! ;)
mario94parrain 1 year ago
I saw him in 1972 and 1973 live, he did not sound different and what a voice and what a concert! ah for those days again!
Life goes by in a blink, enjoy yours, make the most of it
bd9598 2 years ago
your so lucky 2 b around then, i think this peiod was when his voice was the best, when he coud properly hit the high notes.
adamsthegrimiest 2 years ago 56
Yes I don't like my age now! LOL But I did grow up and in the best part of my life the music was phenomenal, and I went to SO MANY GREAT concerts! Thanks
bd9598 2 years ago
I agree. I don't like his modern variations with Rocket Man and most of his songs.
bradleymarshallpiano 2 years ago 3
@adamsthegrimiest hes still amazing!
xtreme204 1 year ago
Why does his voice differ so much from 1972 to 1973. What happened?
hiadhiad 2 years ago
yeah... to bad he's gay...
still love ya reggie!
Beatlemania107 2 years ago
you must be (almost) a man
he's very gay
but a very good musician
AboraAbora 2 years ago
Who cares if he's gay?? He's a singer/musician and I love his songs etc!
bd9598 2 years ago