I really loved that era from U2!

17. Elton John - Something About the Way You Look Tonight

5 weeks at number 1, August/September

AI summary: A double A-side release steeped in emotion and history, this single became the UK’s best-selling of all time. “Something About the Way You Look Tonight,” a lush, romantic ballad in classic Elton style, was paired with “Candle in the Wind 1997,” a reworking of his 1973 tribute to Marilyn Monroe—this time honouring Princess Diana after her tragic death. The result was a cultural moment: a song of mourning, love, and national reflection.

My take: The way better side of this AA, this is a great ballad by Elton and I think it gets better with age!

Agreed that the U2 song isn't that great. Desire, Beautiful Day and Vertigo I like from their No.1s (and Take Me To The Clouds Above if you count it), but certainly they had more classics that didn't get to the top.

I really like that Elton song, I wonder how it would have done on its own merits alone - low top 10 maybe, it's a very classy single but there's nothing to suggest it would have been a huge hit judging by his other peaks around this time. At least we were spared from seeing Candle In The Wind over and over again on TOTP as they actually played this more instead! To the delight of the 1% of buyers who purchased the single for this song (and those of us with functioning ears).

With Elton we have moved into songs I actually like!

The next section up to 10 was really hard to place and I’ve changed it round a few times.

Something About The Way You Look Tonight is the first Elton John song I can clearly remember hearing.

30 minutes ago, gooddelta said:

Agreed that the U2 song isn't that great. Desire, Beautiful Day and Vertigo I like from their No.1s (and Take Me To The Clouds Above if you count it), but certainly they had more classics that didn't get to the top.

I really like that Elton song, I wonder how it would have done on its own merits alone - low top 10 maybe, it's a very classy single but there's nothing to suggest it would have been a huge hit judging by his other peaks around this time. At least we were spared from seeing Candle In The Wind over and over again on TOTP as they actually played this more instead! To the delight of the 1% of buyers who purchased the single for this song (and those of us with functioning ears).

It was the same over here. This was the time I was starting to watch the Saturday morning Top 50 countdown on TV. They always played Something About The Way You Look Tonight, so I was oblivious to Candle In The Wind 1997. I wasn’t until a few months later when I found out my mum had the single of it that I heard it.

Thats a latter good Elton song, though I wouldnt call it a classic by any means compared to most of his 70's and early 80's output, and nowhere near as good as Sacrifice or Healing hands either. U2, I loved Discotheque's psychedelic dancerock vibes, and I loved they were taking musical risks, that would be way higher for me.