His best-known album, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 1973, includes the hit Bennie and the Jets. Among his many other highly successful songs are Rocket Man, Crocodile Rock, and Daniel all 1972, Candle in the Wind 1973, Pinball Wizard 1975, Blue Eyes 1982, Nikita 1985 and Sacrifice 1989, the latter from his album Sleeping with the Past. His output is prolific and his hits have continued intermittently into the 1990s. He enjoyed his greatest popularity, especially in the USA, from his second album, Elton John 1970 to Blue Moves 1976, working exclusively with the lyricist Bernie Taupin (1950-...).
