Early: Lady Samantha/It's Me That You Need
Early:Border Song/Bad Side Of The Moon
Early: MCA signs Elton and puts him on their Uni label.
Late April: Border Song/Bad Side Of The Moon
Mid: From Denver To L.A./From Denver To L.A.
22 July: Elton John
Mid August: Border Song/Bad Side Of The Moon
26 October: Your Song/Take Me To The Pilot
1971
4 January: Tumbleweed Connection
5 March: Original Soundtrack Recording "Friends"; Friends/Honey Roll
10 May: 11-17-70
15 November: Madman Across The Water
29 November: Levon/Goodbye
1972
7 Feburary: Tiny Dancer/Razor Face
17 April: Rocket Man/Suzie (Dramas)
26 May: Honky Château
31 July: Honky Cat/Slave
Mid: MCA cuts most of their subsidiaries - including Uni, King and Decca, puts Elton on MCA in the middle of pressing Honky Château.
20 November: Crocodile Rock/Elderberry Wine
1973
22 January: Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player
26 March: Daniel/Skyline Pigeon
16 July: Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting/Jack Rabbit/Whenever You're Ready (We'll Go Steady Again)
5 October: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
15 October: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road/Youn Man's Blues
26 November: Step Into Christams/Ho! Ho! Ho! (Who'd Be A Turkey At Christmas)
1974
4 Feburary: Bennie And The Jets/Harmony
Mid May: Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me/Sick City
24 June: Caribou
Mid: MCA renews Elton for $8 Million, puts a $1 Million life insuracne policy on Elton.
3 September: The Bitch Is Back/Cold Highway
4 November: Greatest Hits
18 November: Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds/One Day At A Time
28 November: John Lennon appears on stage with Elton at Madison Square Garden. Lennon is reuited with his estranged wife Yoko Ono backstage which results in th birth of their son Sean in 1975. Elton is named Godfather. This concert would be Lennon's final stage appearance.
1975
13 January: Empty Sky
24 Feburary: Philadelphia Freedom/ I Saw Her Standing There (featuring John Lennon)
19 May: Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy
23 June Someone Saved My Life Tonight/ House Of Cards
29 September: Island Girl/Sugar On The Floor
20 October: Rock Of The Westies
1976
12 January: Grow Some Funk Of Your Own/I Feel Like A Bullet (In The Gun Of Robert Ford)
3 May: Here And There
21 June: Don't Go Breaking My Heart/Snow Queen (both credited as Elton John and Kiki Dee)
28 October: Blue Moves
1 November: Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word/Shoulder Holster
1977
31 January: Bite Your Lip (Get Up And Dance!)
1 October: Elton John's Greatest Hits Volume II
1978
14 March: Ego/Flintstone Boy
October: A Single Man
11 November Part-Time Love/I Cry At Night
1979
Mid June: The Thom Bell Sessions E.P.; Mama Can't Buy You Love/Three Way Love Affair
7 September: Victim Of Love/Strangers
16 October: Victim Of Love
Late December: Johnny B. Goode/Georgia
Late: To Russia... With Elton (home video)
1980
17 May: 21 At 33; Little Jeannie/Conquer The Sun
Mid to Late: Elton leaves MCA at end of contract due to creative differences, signs to newbie Geffen for $5 Million. MCA retains Elton's 1970 - 1980 catalog.
Early August: (Sartorial Eloquence) Don't Ya Wanna Play This Game No More?/Cartier/White Man Danger
8 December: John Lennon was shot to death in front of The Dakota.
1981
8 May: Nobody Wins/Fools In Fashion.
22 May: The Fox
Early July: Chloe/Tortured
Mid to Late: Live in Central Park, New York (home video)
Late: Visions (The Fox video album) [home video]
1982
Mid March: Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)/Take Me Down To The Ocean
April: Jump Up!
Late June: Blue Eyes/Hey Papa Legba
Mid September: Ball And Chain/ Where Have All The Good Times Gone? (alternate)
1983
Early: Elton meets recording engineer Renate Blauel while recording Too Low For Zero. They start dating.
Mid April: I'm Still Standing/Love So Cold
23 May: Too Low For Zero
Early July: Kiss The Bride/Choc Ice Goes Mental
Mid?: MCA starts to dive into the new Compact Disc format. Releases Goodbye Yellow Brick road as a double disc set (probably was over $100, someone please confirm or deny this).
Late October: I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues/The Retreat
1984
14 Feburary: Elton marries Renate Blauel in Australia.
Early?: MCA goes all-out on Copact Discs, releaseing Elton's entire 1970 - 1980 catalog, but only releaseing Blue Moves on 1 disc, cutting Cage The Songbird, Shoulder Holster, The Wide-Eyed And Laughing, and Where's The Shoorah? To compensate for how expensive Compact Discs were, MCA also reissued the albums on L.P. and Cassette along with reissues of 7" singles.
Early May: Sad Songs (Say So Much)/A Simple Man
June: Breaking Hearts
Mid August: Who Waers These Shoes?/Lonely Boy
Late summer: Night And Day - The Night Time Concert & The Breaking Hearts Tour (home video)
1985
Early January: In Neon/Tactics
Mid July: Act Of War (part 1)/(part 2); (part 3)/(part 4)
November: Ice On Fire
Late November: Wrap Her Up/The Man Who Never Died
1986
Early Feburary: Nikita/Restless
November: Leather Jackets
Late November: Heartache All Over The World/Highlander; Heartache All Over The World (megamix)/Highlander/Heartache All Over The World
16 December: Final show in the Australian tour. Most of his upcoming album, Pay-Per-View and home video will come from this performance.
17 December: Elton sees doctor for his throat problems that had been plaguing him throughout the Australian tour. Several benign toumors were found on his vocal chords caused by smoking marijuana. They are removed, and Elton beats the odds and his voice is better than ever.
1987
Troughout: British tabloid The Sun prints false stories about Elton. Elton fights back in court and wins. He got £1,000,000 (which he gave to charity) and and apology from The Sun in their papers with the same font and size as the flase stories.
Early: Elton leaves Geffen due to creative differences and re-signs with MCA.
June: Live In Australia With The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
June: Live In Australia With The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (home video)
September: Elton John's Greatest Hits Volume III (1979 - 1987) [contractual obligation]
Late September: Candle In The Wind (live)/Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word (live)
1988
Early Feburary: Take Me To The Pilot (live)/Tonight (live)
Early June: Reg Strikes Back; I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That/Rope Around A Fool; I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That e.p.: (Shep Pettibone Mix)/(The Pub Dub)/(Just Elton And His Piano Mix)/(Just For Radio Mix)
13 November: Elton and Renate divorce.
Early November: A Word In Spanish/Heavy Traffic
1989
Feburary: The Complete Thom Bell Sessions
April: e.p.: Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters Part Two [Renaissance Mix]/Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters Part Two [Da Vinci Version]/A Word In Spanish/Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters Part Two [Self Portrait Instrumental]
Early August: Sleeping With Past; Healing Hands/Dancing In The End Zone
Late October: Sacrifice/Love Is A Cannibal
1990
Late August: Club At The End Of The Street/Sacrifice
8 November: To Be Continued...
1991
Elton goes into rehab for Alcoholism, bulemia, and drug abuse.
1992
Early to Mid: MCA buys Geffen from WEA (Warner Electra Asylum). Reissues all of Elton's Geffen catalog (including Elton John's Greatest Hits Volume III 1979 - 1987) on MCA unaltered exept for Leather Jackets, added extended versions of Heartache All Over The World and Angeline. Then quickly rips EJGHIII from production and replaces it with GH 1976 - 1986 on 10 November. During all this, PolyGram accquires DJM and buys MCA out of Elton's 1970 - 1977 catalog (exept Blue Moves) and reissues them on their Polydor label on 20 October, adding Candle In The Wind to GH and reissuing EJGHVII (U.K. version), and releasing a HUGE backlog of double A-side singles on the Collectables label, using standard black vinyl and special green and red vinyl. Only a few were kept "as was" like Step Into Christmas / Ho! Ho! Ho! (Who'd Be A turkey At Christmas?). Then subsiquently reissues them under Rocket / Island and adding bonust tracks to most of them.
23 June: The One; The One/Suit Of Wolves
4 August: Runaway Train (w/Eric Clapton)/Understanding Women
6 October: The Last Song/The Man Who Never Died/Song For Guy
20 October: Rare Masters
October: Live World Tour 1992 (home video)
10 November: Greatest Hits 1976 - 1986
1993
Late April: Simple Life/The North
Late October True Love (w/Kiki Dee)/Runaway Train(W/Eric Clapton)
30 November: Duets
1994
Late March: Don't Go Breaking My Heart (w/RuPaul) [Single Edit]/Don't Go Breaking My Heart (w/RuPaul) [Single Edit]; e.p.: Don't Go Breaking My Heart (w/RuPaul) [Remix]/Don't Go Breaking My Heart (w/RuPaul) [Don't Go Dubbing My Heart Mix]/Don't Go Breaking My Heart (w/RuPaul) [Album Version]
Early June: Can You Feel The Love Tonight/Can You Feel The Love Tonight
Late September: Circle Of Life/Circle Of Life
1995
Early January: Pain/Pain
28 Feburary: Believe/The One (live)
Early: Elton's contract ends with MCA. Signs on with A&M and strts using his own Rocket label.
21 March: Made In England
Late June: Made In England/Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (live, w/John Lennon)
Early December: Blessed/Latitude
1996
24 September: Love Songs (contractual obligation)
8 October: You Can Make History (Young Again) [sigle edit]/Song For Guy
1997
Early to Mid: Universal (MCA's subsidiary) takes over MCA.
31 August: Elton's friend, Princess Diana dies in a car crash in a Paris tunnel caused by papratzzi.
23 September: The Big Picture
28 October: Something About The Way You Look Tonight/Candle In The Wind 1997
1998
Late Feburary: Recover Your Soul (radio mix)/I Know Why I'm In Love/Big Man In A Little Suit
1999
23 Feburary: Written In The Stars (w/Leann Rimes)/Written In The Stars (w/Leann Rimes) [alternate version]/Aida Album Sampler (various artists)
Late June: A Step Too Far (w/Heather Headley and Sherrie Scott)
24 August: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack "The Muse"
2000
14 March: Elton John's The Road To El Dorado
4 April: Someday Out Of The Blue/Cheldorado (Hans Zimmer)
Early to Mid: Universal takes over A&M in North America, retains Elton and his Rocket label.
21 November: One Night Only - The Greatest Hits
2001
5 June: One Night Only - The Greatest Hits (home video)
2 October: Songs From The West Coast
2002
12 November: Greatest Hits 1970 - 2002
2003
21 October: e.p.: Are You Ready For Love [79 Radio edit]/Are You Ready For Love [Full Length 1979 Version]/Three Way Love Affair/Are You Ready For Love [MPEG Video]; e.p.: Are You Ready For Love [Linus Love Strobelight Mix]/Are You Ready For Love ['79 Full Length Mix]/Are You Ready For Love [Mylo's Road Map To Peace Remix]/Are You Ready For Love [Ashley Beddle Love And Protection Mono Re Edit]
Late: Remixed (e.p.)
2004
9 November: Peachtree Road; Answer In The Sky
2005
Elton leaves Universal at the end of his contract. Signs with Mercury.
Dream Ticket (home video)
2006
5 September: The Bridge/Someone Save My Life Tonight (live)
19 September: The Captain And The Kid
2007
27 March: Rocket Man - Number Ones
Mid: Elton closes Rocket. (Roumor I heard)
September: Elton 60 (home video)