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  • Can't wait to see him live this March! :D Elton John FTW!

  • Anyone else feel that this Live version of rocketman is better than the studio version? I think i've never seen anyone pull off such amazing live preformances like Elton.

  • wow his ability to hit that pitch left pretty quickly. at least he still tried.

  • This makes me envy people who grew up in this era... :)

  • Gay who cares, some people think they can ride a horse and then end up being severely injured. It is in the MUSIC - not the person. consider yoursefl where are you in life,?!

  • I got my nickname from this song haha and as for him being gay who gives a fuck and btw im only 19...best song ever

  • @SuperJames2point0 Yes and no genius. If you're referring to lyrics you're mostly right , Bernie Taupin wrote a lot for him, as for music, John mostly did it himself. At the end it does not matter who wrote what, the final product is "Golden."

  • thumbs up if you're here because of californication

  • @DennisDuine Californication is a great show and at the end of every episode I like the way the show ties in the music with the feeling of the show makes; one feels how screwed up Hank really is...I think Hank should just move on and forget about Karen his lawyer seemed nice, but then I don't think Hank will ever get his shit together...I say this in life; some people cannot have what ther looking for if it is right in front of them...a poor person can win the lottery and be broke 2 years later.

  • The 70's Version of this man is so much better than how he sings today. Why can't he just sing like he use to?

  • @speedracer234 He developed some cancerous polyps on his vocal chords in the 80's and had to have surgery to remove them. He was told this procedure could alter his vocal chords but he did it anyways because at the end of the day his life is more precious than his voice. I must admit that I wish he could still hit the high notes though. Thank god for YouTube because 100 years from now we'll be gone and a new generation will get to discover great music like this. Long live the internet. NO SOPA

  • This is a very "subsequent" video. =p

  • Great video

    Edimburgh is wrong in the desc

  • Wat a great song i hate how ppl hate him cuz he is gay like wow is that a problem he is a great singer

  • Rocket MAAAAAN!!!! Yeah! XD

  • I didn't watch for his hair. I am old enough to remember he was going bald-big deal-didn't affect his music any more than his sexuality!

  • Your video is a favorite on Montenegro

  • Omg great song always loved his songs

  • Christmas is now complete

  • I'm into bestiality :)

  • love elton but can't stop wondering about the hair

  • Fuck you assholes whoever said he needs a hair transplant or he looks like that and that. He's a musical genius and a living legend and you're not worth even a hair on his head. Take that pussies.

  • @20sk Hey do u wanna be friends? I love elton john and i hate how people just hate and hate and hate on him 4 being gay and such and i acually have a video of me singing can you feel the love tonight

  • @20sk Elton John didn't write very much of his own music at all actually, in fact, not even this song...

  • it isnt in its and...

  • It's funny people talk shit about him being gay... considering he probably got more pussy in one day than you will in your entire life.

  • he looks like bubbles with those glasses on

  • To all the people that commented about him being gay, fly to Mars where it's cold as hell and try to raise a kid.

  • I play this song whenever i get stuck at a physics or calculus problem. "It's gonna be a long long time" until i solve it.

  • wow

    

  • As good as it gets!

  • @Volcanicflamefox Good don't live on this planet anymore we don't need you here on planet straight!!!!!!!!! So be a rocketman and fly away!!

  • %90 of ppl knew this song from

    car commerical

  • @Dustyfrab123 idk bout all that now

  • His glasses look like they're about to fall off of his face. It's still a great song though.

  • The first time I here this song because. Of the car crmrshal

  • Why is music so lame these days?

  • @JadRandom13 because they just want money there are very few artist these days who really care about the spirit of music and eventually it will die soon hopefully not

  • How long do you think its gonna be??

  • What he say?

  • Yep that commercial

  • @nickolas404 that commercial was funny but it was a disgrace to elton john

  • Wow, talent to the fullest.

  • 56 People are burning out their fuse up here alone

  • @abirdtoe18 me too i saw the comercial so i just looked it up

  • 'I only looked this video up cause of commercial

  • Reminds me of so many good Burbank,CA friends and childhood memories I love this song. Elton John was the best songs to play on the way home from the beach in Malibu as my Mother drove us back to Burbank, under the Tunnel Rock Painted lady Las Virginians Road. The 1960s VW Buses where everywhere. We had one too. My mom was very 60s

  • Gay! On my tax dollars?! Just kidding he's awesome. Oh and haters, Elton John was in the closet around the time of this filming too, so who knows? You may make a a few hundred million and be knighted as well after accepting why your desperately pushing hateful sentiment on an Elton John video in your free time.

  • queen and elton john. good music

  • This is some of the most soulful music I have heard, Elton John's music is damn good, what he does with his time is his.

  • Gay or str8 good music is good music .. people are scared of what they don't understand .. that just makes you an idiot

  • I am on Youtube looking for some good music that`s what brings me here. It`s a shame that some people are scared of what they do not undersand.

  • Watched this over and over and over and over and those piano skills have never ceased to amaze me.

  • u know he is gay retards

  • @guidoandluigi1 And?

  • @guidoandluigi1 How is this relevant to anything? I swear people like you make me not want to live on this planet anymore.

  • @Volcanicflamefox kiss my ass gay is not the way

  • @guidoandluigi1 i like the song just dont like him whats so wronge about that

  • @guidoandluigi1 I'm as straight as a normal person can be, and it's fucked up to not like someone just because they're gay.

  • @guidoandluigi1 who cares get over it !!!! It's GOOD MUSIC!!!!!!!

  • @guidoandluigi1 Yes, I already knew that, what that matter.

  • @guidoandluigi1 Yes, I have known that for a long time. Why does it matter that he's gay? His music is still brilliant.

  • This blew me away.. :)

  • Oh really...? This is music (excellent music by the way) but some are more concerned with hair??? and who someone happens to love?! Be quiet and listen or be loud and don't. (Forget that last part).

  • @ApickinandAgrinnin Yeah, there is a directional change in society, some are blind to it. Im glad you see there may be blantant idiots out there, or people merely posting for provocation.

  • With lot of money my friend.

  • muy creativas las composiciones..............

  • is it gunna be a long, long time?

  • wow , he really did lose his hair fast. had plenty o hair in 73 or so but by 76 gone!

  • wow i can't believe there are dislikes

  • It is called a hair system!

  • Wow, look musicians could actually play an instrument at one time...

  • @dturbide LOL....but Gaga, Justin and others play instruments, too, it's just not part of their performance (i think madonna plays a few instruments as well) but i get your point, you made me giggle

  • @alfredunhill No matter how good Gaga or Beiber or Madonna is, was or will be, songs like this don't come along every day. The 70s were good to him and Bernie Taupin. Not Lennon/McCartney but then no one is!

  • @dturbide i was being sarcastic when i mentioned Justin Bieber and co. i'm a huge elton fan, but somehow never got into the beatles, any recommendations (maybe a classic song or two?) thanx (the only songs i know off the top of my head are lucy in the sky and imagine)...

  • @alfredunhill yes i havemany suggestions. the whole magical mystery tour album songs: a day in the life while my guitar gently weeps golden slumbers blackbird eleanor rigby the long and winding road come together let it be octopuses garden something yesterday
  • @db009x ill seperate them with colons a day in the life : while my guitar gently weeps : golden slumbers: blackbird: eleanor rigby : the long and winding road: come together: let it be: octopuses garden: something: yesterday: and everything else!!!!@#! the beatles were the pinacle of pop rock. they were the masters of almost every genre without naming one.
  • @alfredunhill Well... Imagine was John Lennon, recorded after the Beatles split. Anyhow... I'd recommend YouTube'ing "Beatles Rooftop Concert. A historic concert, featuring Get Back and Don't Let Me Down. Two of my favorites :)

  • Impressive pianist. Always was. The point is not who is the greatest. Try playing the piano .

  • maybe because before he liked being bald better?

  • the thing is, Elton wrote his own music, and he still does........Michael is DEAD!

  • @Drc8307 You do know that Bernie Taupin wrote every Elton John song, right? He even named one of them after himself, Bennie and the Jets.

  • @slimydick23 Taking words on paper and making em hits is pretty hard bro having someone else writing for him prolly made it harder Jackson is just overated beyond belief might i add just an opinion of course only jeezus knows whos better

  • Elton John was not the most talented pop star, or the greatest artist of all time... Are you kidding me? Michael Jackson trumps him easily in the pop star category, and the greatest (musical) artist not in the least. But that's just my opinion.

  • The only way this could possibly be bad, would be to:

    1. Have tone-deaf douche bag "sing" this while smoking a cigarette

    Or

    2. Have a grown man with a Weird-Al haircut and a vexatiously high voice sing this.

  • Why is there a dog just sitting there at 3:54? What a minx.

  • well if elton john was suffering a terrible self esteem and hair transplant got it better, i have nothing against that kind of solution. people take silicons and botox all the time, and in the 70s if he would've shaved his head totally clean people would have think that he's a criminal. :D tattoos were same at that time. no one but mentally unstable people and criminals took them

  • He looked soooo much better and more interesting looking when he was bald!! fuckin' wigs who needs 'em?

  • It's undisputed that Elton John is one of the greatest musicians of our time.Perhaps the greatest. It's interesting that during his most flamboyant days of stage drag, he was not "out". Those who did not live through that era may not understand just how outrageous his performance apparel was. No matter - you couldn't take your eyes off him. I'm not sure if he "came out of the closet" or was pushed out by feathers, sequins and eye-glasses.

  • Elton John is not perfect. But he is the most talented pop star of any age.

  • and i'll be HIIIIIIIIIII--IIII-IIIGHHHHH, as a kite by then

    1<3

  • Volkswagon commercial brought me here...

  • @FLgr8 The same over here.

  • You see people wearing glasses like that on the street these days. Elton was very fashion forward.

  • He is and will always continue to be one hell of a musician,he was on top of the world in the early 70's and mid 70's.Easy to understand why.

  • It took a lot to fight with someone for me But I'd watch long enough & as a bully he was just to cool to be nice to any1.I think what hurt more was I said he listen'd to Elton a shame he couldn't just appreciate good music & leave kids alone But it goes to show what kids ...our kids probably deal with when they come home hating school it usually has to do with getting picked on..So HEAR your child when they're negative toward school please they maybe in trouble!

  • One of the Most Iconic artist of our time,Elton John Has one of the bes longest catalogs that people of all walks of life can identify with. He's also an outspoken activist when it comes to prejudice of any kind! I remember a couple kids ridiculing him on my schoolbus many yrs ago when "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" came out,Island Girl was playin on the radio. But I knew he listened to Elton often So to Keep an image he was hypocritcal & abusive to other kids till I laid him out defendin 1

  • when I listen to this song it always makes me think about silence and how lucky we are to have talented artists like Elton to turn that silence into music like this. Just think for a second about how depressing it would be if music like this didn't exist

  • What a great man,and singer..you go boy

  • How does he go from balding over 30 years ago when hes younger to now having a full head of hair 30 years later when hes older? Isnt that fucking backwards..

  • @lilflav90210 hair plugs lol

  • @lilflav90210 yeah thats called... advancement of the fucking technology... these days the bald are the poor... not elton...

  • @suarezcarlos1183 A wig is not much of a tech increase, but it is a transplant, vanity,tsk tsk

  • @lilflav90210 It is fake

    

  • @lilflav90210 He has more money to insert plugs,not only that but his boyfriend probably insist,s on it.

  • @lilflav90210 it's the Shatner trick ;)

  • @lilflav90210 heard about a wig?

  • @lilflav90210 Money can't buy love but iti can buy hair!

  • @lilflav90210 i think i read somewhere he went through hair restoration

    

  • @lilflav90210 Hes a boss its oky

  • @lilflav90210 Thats what I was wondering!!

  • @lilflav90210 in the words of Dave Chappelle - cuz he's rich biiitch!

  • @lilflav90210 umm there is a new invention called hair transplant...

  • @lilflav90210 I think he can do anything he wants! $

  • @lilflav90210 hair transplant

  • @ObiwannabeKenobi Yah its like that Brad Pitt movie where he gets younger till he's a baby and sh*t.

  • @ObiwannabeKenobi buen comentario

  • @ObiwannabeKenobi He's Elton John thats how

  • @ChoChoKaChu lol

  • @ObiwannabeKenobi NOT relevant, but only for superficial society and people. A talented artist, no matter what the outside facade displays.

  • @ObiwannabeKenobi Why can't we just listen to the music instead of judging how someone looks,we all are not perfect by any means

  • @lilflav90210 It is simply a Wig 

  • @lilflav90210 bonsly

  • @lilflav90210 bustin a benjamin button lol

  • @lilflav90210 hair transplant

  • this is definitely my favorite elton john song. It seems to me that he sings it with more feeling than any other

  • @akeagleTL you are dead right, he was just as affected as me in 1969, july 21, moonday!

  • THIS SONG WILL STILL BE PLAYED LONG AFTER YOU ALL ARE GONE..... however nothing thats coming out these days will last long enough to be classic

  • No,..GaGa reminds one of Elton,since he wrote it and put it out years ago. GREATEST!

  • reminds me of gaga

  • À living legend!

  • I love him he's very eccentric. I love his music but that is not why I love him. I'm not gay and sexual orientation has nothing to do with loving. Or do I have to be straight to love someone I mentor such as a parent, sibling or son and daughter. Elton John there are so many idiots that don't deserve to hear your music :/

  • man, this kind of discussions make me sick

    guys, one can enjoy both. There's no need to compare, unless you're douchebags and if that's so: please go on -.-

  • Elton & Paul, best ARTIST on planet earth still alive....

  • Its funny how 1 note in a song can take you back in time. For me it's 1973. My first yr in High School. Thats the first time i lisoned to Elton. Been a fan all my life. People talk all the crap they want about him being Gay I dont care. I dont need to sleep with him to love his music.

  • Who cares if he's gay

  • How come he has more hair today than he did in '76?

  • @phototristan maybe..cos technology is better nowadays?

  • @phototristan Do you really have to ask, its one of two choices:)

  • @phototristan WHEN YOU HAVE HIS MONEY YOU CAN BUY ALL THE HAIR YOU WANT

  • A genious that wrote a so wonderfull song in 5 minutes, just reading the text. He's a great musician.

  • Homophobes just envy his talent.

  • I rather lis to Elton then any artist in the last five years and he is gay and I am not a big fan of gay people

  • Great Artist, and great Music!!! I Appreciate you Elton!!!!!!!!!

  • not shure about bieber, but I get the same feeling from gaga.

    music is more alive then it ever was, fool!~

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  • @ZiggyLazer you haven't the slightest clue as to what you're attempting to make a point about . . . Music can't even be properly defined anymore, it's just anything that is recorded in hollywood by any peice of garbage who can afford a studio. Seriously, In previous generations, music had a very explicit definition; A strategic arrangement of instruments that produces an enjoyable listening experience. Todays "music" doesn't even always include instruments anymore, nor is it enjoyable.

  • @ZiggyLazer stop living in denial

  • gimme gimmes do an awesome rockin cover of this.

  • Every now and then i shut down and withdrawal from music altogether. Shit, I'll even put talk raido in the car. After a month or so of no music, when my ears feel retuned and ready to hear music, I sit down by myself with a bottle of wine, maybe even a joint or two and sift through records from my and my parents collection. This song usually always gets played. Songs like this spark a raw emotion triggering a moment in memory that your glad it did whether good or bad. thanks E.J.

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  • Music isn't dead... you just have to work hard now to find it. Corporate Radio is dead. Corporate Labels are dead music. Everyone interested in the art of music has differing tastes that they end up buying differing music. Mainstream music is for those who sit in their car and need white noise to distract them. They buy the same music cuz it doesn't really matter to them. Big labels make their dough on the "white noise" and fire the "art of music" artists cuz they are outsold 10,000 to 1.

  • Mr. Elton, you`re quite a genious! But it`s funny how your hair changed from half-bald to thick over the years.

  • @tacomaster23 you are awesome :D

  • He has gotten more pussy than any of us.

  • I don't care he makes great music... It's 2011 pick sumn else 2 b.s. over

  • .::Stewie brought me here::.

  • I never knew he was gay... I still love him. I will treat him just like everyone else/maybe even better!

  • lets just enjoy the music, also stop arguing about his personal background because we all know he has led a successful life and career.

  • This gay man has done a lot more for the world than many straight men will ever do with their own lives.

  • Why do ppl give gay men such a hard time. yet when you see gay women, ppl dont give a shit?

  • I've heard so many people make fun of this guy for being gay. I've always looked at him for what I've seen. He seems to be a good man and he's written songs that I still enjoy all these years later. Now the wardrobe is freakin out there and I don't think anyone can deny that lol. He's still an amazing artist gay or not.

  • Wen I hear this song I think of boba fett from starwars .I love this song :3

  • Just because someone is gay doesn't mean that they want to sleep with your dumb ass. If you're straight and not getting a lot of women then you probably won't attract men either. So forget about all that crap and relax and enjoy the music. You'll be happier and you'll live longer.  :o)

  • thx for putting this out there ... lisyen to the song quit arguing

  • Not here man! This is bat country!

  • Not too many good Elton songs? Bla. All he does is put out good songs!

  • luv elton, hate this version...sux. is he messed up? screw ups in his singing. it's hard to spot mistakes in piano, and he has tons here.....

  • @vaginaflypaper he doesnt screw up his singing, hes doing it on purpose, hes trying to give the audience a different sound than on the record, or else it would get very boring

  • john when he went through his "i want to look like hunter s thompson" phase

  • One of the better songs of Sir Elton. There are not all too many, but this is one. :)

  • @vishiquals umm dont even know who you are? But if you got the rolling stone magazine writing bad things about you you must be decent

  • I love this song. In fact I'm a Rocket Man about to explode right now... It fits with my life right now. Greetings from Mexico. Sorry my bad English.

  • I watched him in 1995 - in a field with LIGHTING and THUNDER!!!

    I risked my life to hear him. He was great... He even commented on the fact that our lives were in jeopardy.

  • @Giandavide Sounds fun !

  • the best live version ever...thank you elton!