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Dom Robinson reviews

The Very Best of Elton John

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The Very Best of Elton John covers the excellent recording career of the much-trumpted-gay man's life up until 1990, thus, thankfully, not including any of the Disney crap he released later.

It stems from a double-CD release that also came out around the same time which includes a lot more tracks and if you already have that then you'll know what a great listen it is. A full compilation would have made a perfect partner to the CD, but what's on show is still worthy of a purchase.

It was in mid-1990 when Elton (real name Reg Dwight) announced that he would no longer profit from singles releases and all such profits would go to charity (hmm.. just after the 1989 releases of Sacrifice and Healing Hands completely stiffed under the Top 40) and came back with... yes, you guessed it - a double-A side of Sacrifice / Healing Hands. It made No.1.

Another No.1 charridee hit was his rewritten Candle in the Wind in 1997, in tribute to the late Princess Diana, who died after a car crash in August of that year. Amazingly, the coroner's final report read that the driver, Henri Paul, bodyguard to Mohammed Al-Fayed, was pissed as a fart as he piled into a stone pillar. Yep, that'll do it every time.

His second single, Rocket Man, made No.2 in April 1972. Kate Bush's remake was a load of "No.2"s !

Elton scored a No.3 hit in 1985 with Nikita, showing his love for a Russian female guard while the cold war was still on. However, Nikita is a boy's name.

Live Like Horses (No.9, Dec 96) was a single released from Pavarotti's album for Warchild's charity. The song was promoted on The National Lottery show which turned into a double disaster when the machine wouldn't start because John Willen hadn't shut the drum properly and a 'random' woman chosen from the audience turned out to be the producer's Mum. Elt or Pav couldn't start the balls rolling because their segment was prerecorded. "Live" like horses? "Eat" like horses, more like.

Elton John's single releases to date (September 2000) are as follows :

Most of the music promos here are in 4:3 fullscreen, while the ratios for I'm Still Standing and Passengers vary considerably throughout the songs. The picture is much better for the later tracks, while the earlier ones are mostly studio-based performances and of lesser quality, looking a bit soft-focused. The average bitrate is 5.96Mb/s, creeping close towards 8Mb/s.

The sound is excellent and the quality of the tunes cannot be faulted. Generally, the audio print of choice is Dolby Digital 2.0 (Stereo).

Three of the songs, Your Song, Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word and Rocket Man are in mono, but I'm using the 'Arena' setting on my Sony STRDB-930 which gives the entire DVD a 'live' feel.

Extras :

Chapters :

There are 22 chapters, one for each song, plus an intro and end credits sequence, the latter featuring most of Song for Guy, a tune that doesn't feature on the DVD elsewhere. The track listing is as follows :

Languages & Subtitles :

English only, with no lyrics.

Menu :

Silent with some animation in the form of Elton's name "signed" onscreen like the aforementioned track names.

Overall, as is the way with all music DVDs, the only people to buy them will be fans of the artist.

I am, but it's a shame that (a) not all of his greatest hits are to be found here and, (b) it's unforgivable that the intro to each track can't be seen because of the elongated title sequence for each song, which is just the title being 'written' out on a blue background. It's nice to see it introduced, but that should really fade out and then let the song begin from the start. Hey, I'm just a completist, ok?

And there's no extras too.

Now, let's have a second DVD release please containing the rest of his best hits as well as a selection of non-Disney tracks from the last ten years.

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Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2000.

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