Elton John - Your Song (1971) • TopPop

Today, March 25, 2022, Elton John celebrates his 75th birthday! We publish this very early and possibly first Elton John tv performance on the continent because of this special day for Elton. He even described this early Toppop film recording in his book ’I Elton John’ as a memory of the paparazzi photographers that were present at the recording of this 16 mm footage, shot on location in the ’Amsterdamse bos’ in Amsterdam. Also watch the ’paparazzi version’ of this recording on our TopPop channel: Sir Elton Hercules John CH CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer, pianist and composer, with a career spanning six decades. Collaborating with lyricist Bernie Taupin since 1967 on more than 30 albums, John has sold over 300 million records, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. ’Your Song’ was his first big hit internationally and his second hit in the Netherlands. It reached no. 10 in the Dutch Top 40 in March 1971. His first hit in the Netherlands was ’Border Song’ which was a hit in December 1970 reaching the no. 29 in the Top 40. Watch our great music videos ❯ More TopPop? Subscribe here ❯ More info on Wikipedia ❯ Broadcast date: March 2, 1971 This is to let you know that the video recording of the video clip was originally recorded by AVROTROS Broadcasting. AVROTROS Broadcasting hereby warrants and represents that it is the sole and exclusive owner of the physical film and/or videotape footage in this video clip. The performance of the artist(s) in the clip was filmed and recorded with the written consent of the artist(s) and their representatives. AVROTROS is a Dutch radio and television broadcaster, founded in 2014 from a merger of AVRO and TROS. From January 1st, 2014 the name of the merged broadcaster was used in joint programmes. AVRO was founded in 1923 as the Netherlands first public broadcaster. TROS started broadcasting in 1964. Toppop was a weekly AVRO pop program that was aired between 1970 and 1988. AVROTROS Broadcasting PO Box 2 1200 JA Hilversum The Netherlands TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years. World famous music artists performed on TopPop: ABBA, 10CC, Bee Gees, The Jacksons with Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Queen, Golden Earring, Boney M, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chic, Donna Summer and many many more.