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Killer
Papa
Was A Rolling Stone
Victims
Father
Figure
Ainīt
No Stopping Us Now
Calling
You
Hard
Day
Back
To Life
Sign
Your Name
Waiting
For That Day
Iīm
Your Man
Tonight
They
Wont Go When I Go
Fame
Everything
She Wants
Ainīt
Nobody
Freedom
Faith
Dont
Let The Sun Go Down On Me
(duet
with Elton John)
Careless
Whisper
Freedom
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As successful as the 1974 record had been, it was as a duet with George Michael that "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" had its greatest success. The pair had performed the song at the Live Aid concert in 1985. Recorded live at a concert at Wembley Arena, London on 25 March 1991 when Elton John was a surprise guest of George Michael, the duet became a massive hit on both sides of the Atlantic. It was released later that year and reached number one on the UK singles chart for two weeks in December 1991 and a single week on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1992. The duet also spent two weeks at number one on the Adult Contemporary
chart.
The footage used for the music video of the song was taken from a "live" concert in Chicago with 70,000 fans. "The video was actually shot over several days," confirms Michael Pagnotta, George's publicist. "It was shot in an airline hangar in Burbank, California where George had been rehearsing; Elton came in for a night and they ran through the song a couple of times. Then the song was filmed in its entirety live in Chicago in the middle of October as part of that Cover to Cover tour, and when Elton came out from the wings, that place went crazy."[citation needed] It appears on John's Love Songs compilation. The proceeds from the single were divided among 10 different charities for children, AIDS and education.
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