Your Song

In 2017, a UK-wide poll for ITV voted "Your Song" by Elton John as The Nation's Favourite Elton John Song. It had already been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998, and Rolling Stone placed it at number 136 on its 2004 list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. The single had first appeared in the United States in October 1970 as the B-side to "Take Me to the Pilot", but disc jockeys preferred it and it was flipped to the A-side, reaching number eight on the Billboard chart and number seven in the UK.

Three Dog Night had recorded it first, releasing it as an album track on It Ain't Easy in March 1970 while John, then their opening act, let them use it. They never put it out as a single, wanting the upcoming artist to have a go himself. John's own version was cut at Trident Studios in London in January 1970 and opened his self-titled second album that April.

Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics one morning in 1969 at the kitchen table of John's mother's apartment in Northwood Hills, though a popular story claimed he had written them on the roof of 20 Denmark Street. Taupin denied that, noting John had already left the publishing job there before they met. John wrote the music on 27 October 1969, and the recording featured Paul Buckmaster's string arrangement alongside the piano work.