LOOKING BACK AT THE SEVENTIES Your Song is a ballad composed and performed by English musician Elton John with lyrics by his longtime collaborator Bernie Taupin. It originally appeared on Johns self-titled second album (1970). The song was released in the United States in October 1970 as the B-side to Take Me to the Pilot. Both received airplay, but Your Song was preferred by disc jockeys and replaced Take Me to the Pilot as the A-side, eventually making the top ten on both the UK and US charts. In 1998, Your Song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 2004 the song was placed at number 137 on Rolling Stones list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. A demo version was included on Johns 1990 box set album To Be Continued. The song has been covered by a number of artists, including Ellie Goulding, whose version reached number two on the UK Singles Chart in late 2010. The refrain from the song, and you can tell everybody, was sampled in the 2013 song by Aloe Blacc, The Man. youtu.be/mTa8U0Wa0q8
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