Elton John On The Joan Rivers Show (1986)

Interview
The Bitch Is Back (With Joan Rivers & Cher)
Your Song
Twist And Shout

[@MJ-oi5wb]

He always has a nice smile for his fans

[@MJ-oi5wb]

I was in FL on vacation and the person I went to for a pedicure had Joan earlier. She said she was SO funny, and a lovely person.

[@MJ-oi5wb]

Joan looked SO thrilled. I have never seen EJ miss his mark before!

[@Bubbleb2]

Yeseree. It did happen. Very Rare indeed.

[@tomasbonn3682]

Brilliant performance of Your Song

[@cbnurse64]

I love this man and thoroughly enjoy every clip I can find. Just have to mention that bow and (mullet), I wore the same (minus the mullet) back in the late 80"s and probably way too long after. Thank you for posting!

[@jaggass]

Probably the last time The Bitch Is Back was performed in original key.

[@mrquail5299]

The only live time it was played in Ab

[@jaggass]

@@mrquail5299 It was done in original key half live on Top Of The Pops but rumour has it that it was done half a key lower as Davey Johnstone found it easier to do the guitar parts.

[@mrquail5299]

@@jaggass it was album mimed on top of the pops

[@jeffreymarshall2875]

Don't agree with all the comments, below. I remember watching this back in 1986 and it's still magical watching it in 2020.

[@rolandhersan2420]

Elton John, Pee-wee and Cher together, simply weird, by the way, as usual Reginald Kenneth Dwight stunning.....

[@korihk]

Someone is buzzed!

[@BabyLambCreations]

I just saw Elton John and Pee-Wee Herman together in the same room. Now I've seen everything.

[@jdenino6022]

Twist and Shout was the best part.

[@claresherman2278]

This clip makes me feel sad.

[@MJ-oi5wb]

why

[@illusiondoptik]

EXCELLENT ! WANT MORE !

[@bpdobson8660]

Very troubled times for Elton John here. He's putting on a brave drug fuelled face, but he's a very sad man underneath. The following year 1987, worst of his life, a gay man married to a woman. Then lo and behold the 1988 album Reg strikes back, Elton starts the turn around. He's on some serious drugs here for sure. Imagine what Elton thinks now looking back at this video clip.....

[@johnvargo7338]

+Peter Dobson Elton got married in 1984..

[@bpdobson8660]

+John Vargo correct. You point being?

[@bslomof-1901]

Glad he was able to get through it all. I hope his then wife Renate is doing well.

[@reggie2737]

Maybe he meant, 1 year after this show in 1986🤔

[@RetroSoulGirl]

4:39 A gay squirrel! LOL I love it!

[@miqueiasmiranda7766]

GREAT!

[@levanishamatava3650]

the best show

[@markhoijtink4868]

Fantastisch

[@PatriciaHKimes-cd1vl]

A positive influencer, wish I was his kind of straight!. A real cutie!

[@copacetic9018]

Joan isn't buying for a minute that this guy's straight.

[@RetroSoulGirl]

Did anybody really though? LOL

[@salvadorealiberto]

Elton does not buy it either here. The camp seems like a cry for help.

[@bslomof-1901]

I feel sorry for his wife .

[@tonydoherty2190]

When joan showed him him a picture and he said i look like a gay squirrel

[@amyreddick8802]

Your Song (Joan Rivers Show)

[@defunct8009]

11:03 Your Song

[@weirdguy75]

Man those nodules are really hitting him hard.

[@anjaknepper9679]

He came out of the closet recently and admitted he likes GIRLS.

[@nonnamadonna]

Elton had throat surgery in January 1987 in Melbourne, Australia after he completed his "Live In Australia (With The Melbourne Symphony)". I have the CD of that concert & it's superb, despite the fact that the rasp in his voice was obvious at times.

[@nonnamadonna]

@@anjaknepper9679 You don't have to be straight to like girls. Elton has always "liked" girls but he prefers to be married to a man & he & his husband, David are very happy.

[@Piwork69]

EJ is talking 100 mph.

[@marikototsuka908]

おもしろいねーー

[@GeoffreyBronson]

After watching Rocketman this has quite a tragic undertone in reflection. He's married to a woman and buzzed out of his fucking mind. Glad he got out of it.

[@claresherman2278]

Agreed. Read his book too for more perspective. The man’s a marvel- he turned his life around completely.

[@GeoffreyBronson]

@@claresherman2278 ordering it on Amazon right now, you've just reminded me cheers 🤘

[@claresherman2278]

Geoffrey Bronson It’s a great read.

[@1091Floyd21]

Who's the other dude there? He looks like the guy from The Big Bang Theory

[@tommyman6435]

That is probably Paul Reubens, at least for me most known from Tim Burton's first full-length film, 'Pee-wee's big adventure' (1985).

[@beauwilliamson6211]

Tommyman love that movie

[@elton1111]

Fifteen years later, Paul Reubens played Elton's manager John Reid in Elton's video of This Train Don't Stop There Anymore.

[@janetphillips2875]

PEE WEE HERMAN! YEA! I loved Paul Reubens in Blow with Johnny Depp

[@reed77john]

15:12 Cocaína.

[@mattyolo6077]

ah the twitches

[@claresherman2278]

Heartbreaking.

[@user-zm9gj1pc7i]

WTF is going on? I seen alot of people high on who knows what but never seen twitching like that before. Why was Cher running from him?

[@claresherman2278]

T He used to have seizures too. I don’t see Cher running from him.

[@user-zm9gj1pc7i]

@@claresherman2278 at the end it looks like she doesn't want to sit next to him, then she turned and said something about him

[@danielaleonrey1702]

it's me or elton liked cher, or it was just a lie and it was part of the show I don't know, I just hope it wasn't part of the show

[@35jeydee]

They have been friends since the 70's. Elton appeared on The Cher Show in the 70's. The B side of Don't Go Breaking My Heart is called Snow Queen and it's a song about Cher, not very flattering song mind you (snow in that song means cocaine)

[@danielaleonrey1702]

@@35jeydee Thank you

[@cbnurse64]

Elton is very funny when he was on the Sonny and Cher Show!

[@senorxrey6429]

3:34 "The Big Banana"?!?!? BWAH HA HA HA HA!!!! It probably belonged to David Furnish, not his ex-wife Renate Blauel. 5:17 A maître d' at a leather bar!!! LOL "I never went to a leather bar". Big queen! Oh yes you did! He seemed to know a lot about Bob Mackie outfits, too. Hmmm... wonder what THAT means? Another so subtle hint. 6:32 How appropriate to pick "The Bitch Is Back"! Is this for Joan, EJ, or BOTH of them? :-) 8:06 He jumps in too early! "Live music" :-) The guitarist SHREADS this song just like the original! Very cool 9:34 out of nowhere Cher appears to claim the title of bitch! TOOOOO COOOOL. 11:19 WAKE UP!!! The sound tech forgets to bring up EJ's mic in time for "Your Song". They rarely do impromptu performances like this on US TV anymore where everyone just has fun instead of worrying about their image, or remembering to plug their latest project. Graham Norton's Show is the exception.

[@robinmartinell5913]

He was Being facetious