Elton John on Being the Top Male Solo Artist of All Time and Why Billboard Is Still His 'Bible'

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Elton John on Being the Top Male Solo Artist of All Time and Why Billboard Is Still His 'Bible'
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.eltonofficial chats about being the top male solo artist of all time, earning his first Hot100 No. 1 with 'Crocodile Rock' in 1973 & more

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

I liked “Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me,” but I didn’t see it as a single ever. [On] AM radio, you had two minutes, 30 seconds, maybe two minutes, 45 seconds. And I think what we did with “Philadelphia Freedom” and “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down On Me,” we put out 6-minute records and radio played them and a lot of them didn't edit it. I think that was a big turning point for radio. I was surprised “Don't Let the Sun” [was] a No. 1 record because it was so long and it was so slow.

Absolutely. No one can ever take that away from me. It’s probably my favorite album that I’ve ever made. It had one single from it, “Five months later, your next album,, though, it sounds like you couldn’t enjoy it.

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