Elton John: Live – Our New YouTube Playlist

Elton has performed over 4,000 times to date since his career began fifty years ago.

Just in the past five years, in the UK alone, he has played for everyone from Her Majesty the Queen, on the occasion of her Diamond Jubilee, to surprised London commuters at St. Pancras International when he donated a piano to the station.

In America, during the same stretch of time, he has performed for a couple of hundred people at Capital Studios in Los Angeles, a thousand or so college students at the University of Southern California, and well over 50,000 people at the 2014 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival.

We have collected 25 videos that show the wide variety of Elton’s performances, from promotional appearances to worldwide tours, in the new Elton John: Live YouTube Playlist. Here you will find the following highlights and more.

★  Elton and surprise guest Lady Gaga play Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me and Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting) live on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles in 2016.

★  Elton performing Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters in honour of journalist Daniel Pearl during Elton’s Peace One Day appearance in 2012.

★  A rousing rendition of Mexican Vacation (Kids In The Candlelight) at Capitol Studios during his launch of The Diving Board in 2013.

★  Two songs from The Union with Leon Russell at the Beacon Theatre in New York City in 2010: If It Wasn’t For Bad and Hey Ahab.

★  An instrumental medley of some of Elton’s hits and one pub standard for surprised onlookers at St. Pancras station in 2016. The set list? Looking Up, Tiny Dancer, Your Song, Bennie And The Jets, Candle In The Wind, Blue Wonderful, Song For Guy, Don’t Go Breaking My Heart, My Old Man (Said Follow The Van).