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Compilation album by Elton John
Released 1 October 1990
Recorded 1970–1990
Genre Rock, pop
Length 137:56
Label Polygram
Producer Gus Dudgeon, Clive Franks, Chris Thomas, Don Was
Elton John chronology
To Be Continued
(1990) The Very Best of Elton John
(1990) The One
(1992)

The Very Best of Elton John is a greatest hits compilation album by English musician Elton John, released in October 1990. His first career-retrospective compilation album, and fourth official greatest-hits album overall, it was released in the United Kingdom and throughout Europe, and in other countries such as Japan and Australia, but not in the United States, where the box set To Be Continued... was released the following month instead.

The compilation spans his second album Elton John in 1970 to Sleeping with the Past in 1989. After the double A-sided `Sacrifice/Healing Hands` single became a hit and the third best-selling single of 1990 in the United Kingdom, the album became an instant smash in that country. It spent its first two weeks at #1 followed by nine weeks at #2, kept there by Madonna`s Immaculate Collection. In all, the compilation spent 145 weeks inside the UK top 200 album chart, making a total of 11 re-entries, and it was certified 9× Platinum by the BPI on 1 March 1995.[2]

It includes a total of 28 hit singles plus the new songs `Easier to Walk Away` and `You Gotta Love Someone`, both of which also made the charts between 1990 and 1991. The release also spawned a music video compilation, which was originally released on both laserdisc and VHS, and reissued on DVD.

Track listing
Disc one
No. Title Writer(s) Album Length
1. `Your Song` Elton John, Bernie Taupin Elton John, 1970 4:03
2. `Rocket Man (I Think It`s Going To Be a Long, Long Time)` John, Taupin Honky Château, 1972 4:42
3. `Honky Cat` John, Taupin Honky Château 5:15
4. `Crocodile Rock` John, Taupin Don`t Shoot Me I`m Only the Piano Player, 1973 3:58
5. `Daniel` John, Taupin Don`t Shoot Me I`m Only the Piano Player 3:56
6. `Goodbye Yellow Brick Road` John, Taupin Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, 1973 3:17
7. `Saturday Night`s Alright for Fighting` John, Taupin Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 4:57
8. `Candle in the Wind` John, Taupin Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 3:51
9. `Don`t Let the Sun Go Down on Me` John, Taupin Caribou, 1974 5:38
10. `Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds` Lennon–McCartney Non-album single, 1974 6:17
11. `Philadelphia Freedom` (Edited version) John, Taupin Non-album single, 1975 5:19
12. `Someone Saved My Life Tonight` John, Taupin Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, 1975 6:47
13. `Pinball Wizard` Pete Townshend Tommy soundtrack, 1975 5:16
14. `The Bitch Is Back` John, Taupin Caribou 3:46
Disc two
No. Title Writer(s) Album Length
15. `Don`t Go Breaking My Heart` (with Kiki Dee) John, Taupin (but credited to Ann Orson/Carte Blanche, respectively) Non-album single, 1976 4:32
16. `Bennie and the Jets` John, Taupin Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 5:21
17. `Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word` John, Taupin Blue Moves, 1976 3:51
18. `Song for Guy` John A Single Man, 1978 6:41
19. `Part-Time Love` John, Gary Osborne A Single Man 3:16
20. `Blue Eyes` John, Osborne Jump Up!, 1982 3:28
21. `I Guess That`s Why They Call It the Blues` John, Taupin, Davey Johnstone Too Low for Zero, 1983 4:46
22. `I`m Still Standing` John, Taupin Too Low for Zero 3:04
23. `Kiss the Bride` John, Taupin Too Low for Zero 3:56
24. `Sad Songs (Say So Much) (Single Version)` John, Taupin Breaking Hearts, 1984 4:11
25. `Passengers` John, Taupin, Johnstone, Phineas Mkhize Breaking Hearts 3:24
26. `Nikita` John, Taupin Ice on Fire, 1985 5:45
27. `I Don`t Wanna Go on with You Like That` John, Taupin Reg Strikes Back, 1988 4:00
28. `Sacrifice` John, Taupin Sleeping with the Past, 1989 5:08
29. `Easier to Walk Away` John, Taupin Soon to be released on To Be Continued..., 1990 4:25
30. `You Gotta Love Someone` John, Taupin Days of Thunder soundtrack, 1990 5:01
Track 25 is different on European version of the album. `Whispers` from Sleeping with the Past takes the place of `Passengers`.
`Pinball Wizard`, `The Bitch Is Back`, `I Don`t Wanna Go on With You Like That` and `Easier to Walk Away` are excised from the vinyl version of the compilation.
The timings are different on the back cover and the actual CD. On Disc 1, `Don`t Let the Sun Go Down on Me` is listed as 6:12, while the actual song runs at 5:38 and `Philadelphia Freedom` runs at 5:42, rather at 5:19. On Disc 2, the back cover shows Song For Guy running at 5:02, but the actual track runs at 6:40 (the album length of the song). The same applies for `Nikita`, which the back cover states for 4:53 but the actual song plays at 5:44. `I Don`t Wanna Go on With You Like That` is the radio single edit on the CD (4:00) instead of the back cover`s album cut listing of 4:33.