Elton John’s 1976 single “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” has simply joined the Spotify Billions Membership. A duet between John and the English singer Kiki Dee, the monitor topped worldwide charts.
The music was written by John with Bernie Taupin beneath the pseudonyms “Ann Orson” and “Carte Blanche,” respectively. The music was initially conceived as a duet with Dusty Springfield. Dee had carried out as a backup singer for Springfield, acting on “Some of Your Lovin’” and “Little by Little.” She could be the primary white British artist signed to Motown, which is how she was launched to John Reid, who was managing Elton John. He satisfied her to signal with the label they had been forming, Rocket Data, and her third album, Loving & Free, arrived in 1973.
“Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” was by no means included on an authentic album, although it was recorded through the periods for John’s eleventh studio album, 1976’s Blue Strikes. The music was the primary No. 1 single within the UK for each John and Kiki Dee, topping the chart for six weeks in mid- 1976. It additionally grew to become John’s sixth No. 1 single within the US. In 1976, John and Taupin obtained the Ivor Novello award for Greatest Tune Musically and Lyrically.
John’s subsequent solo monitor to prime the British charts was the double-sided single “Sacrifice” and “Healing Hands” in 1990. John’s subsequent US solo primary single was “Candle in the Wind 1997.”
American drag queen RuPaul joined John on an replace of “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” in 1994. The brand new model was produced by Giorgio Moroder and reached quantity three on the US Billboard Dance Membership Songs chart. It appeared on John’s first collaboration album, 1993’s Duets.
John guest-starred on a 1977 episode of The Muppet Present and carried out “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” with Miss Piggy. Dee joined John onstage throughout his 1985 set at Dwell Help to carry out the monitor.
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