What was Elton John's first No 1 hit. Bio's give conflicting answers.?!


Question: What was Elton John's first No 1 hit!. Bio's give conflicting answers!.!?
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His first No!. 1 was Don't go breaking my heart with Kiki Dee,
His first solo No!.1 was sacrifice!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

Correction Your song only got to #8 but Crocodile Rock became his first #1 in Feb!. 1973!.
His publisher/manager (Dick James) did a very clever thing when launching Elton!. He flew him and his band to do gigs at The Troubadour in L!.A!. It cost James £50,000 to do it but Elton took the place by storm and became big almost overnight!. James was no stranger to success!. His friend George Martin got him to agree to publish an unknown group called The Beatles (I wonder what happened to them!?)!.
TIMELINE
March 25, 1947: Reginald Kenneth Dwight, a!.k!.a!. Elton John, is born in the London suburb of Pinner!.

June 23, 1967: Elton John answers an ad placed by Liberty Records in Britain’s ‘New Musical Express,’ thereby setting in motion a chain of events that will result in his teaming up with lyricist Bernie Taupin, his lifetime songwriting collaborator!.

June 3, 1969: ‘Empty Sky,’ Elton John’s first album, is released in England!. It will not be released in the U!.S!. until 1975, when John is a bonafide superstar!.

August 25, 1970: Elton John makes his performing debut in America at Los Angeles’ Troubadour nightclub!.

January 23, 1971: Elton John reaches #8 with “Your Song!.” It is the first in a string of 60 hit singles for John over the next three decades!.

April 10, 1971: Elton John hits #34 with “Friends”!.

February 5, 1972: Elton John hits #24 with “Levon”!.

July 15, 1972: Elton John hits #6 with “Rocket Man,” a song whose words and music make a timely play on the U!.S!. space program!.

September 23, 1972: Elton John hits #8 with “Honky Cat”!.

February 3, 1973: Elton John’s “Crocodile Rock” hits #1!. It is the first of a half dozen chart-topping singles for John over the next three years!.

June 2, 1973: Elton John hits #2 with “Daniel,” a pensive ballad from his hit-filled album D’on’t Shoot Me, I’m Only the Piano Player!.’

September 15, 1973: Elton John hits #12 with “Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting!.”

December 8, 1973: Elton John hits #2 with “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” the title track from a double album that would itself reach #1 and remain on the album charts for two years!.

April 13, 1974: Elton John hits #1 with “Bennie and the Jets,” a tribute to R&B music from ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road!.’ “When I first heard ‘Bennie and the Jets,’ I knew I had to be a performer,” Axl Rose (of Guns ‘n’ Roses) would say in his 1994 speech inducting John into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

From memory I would have said Your Song - I remember it well!Www@Enter-QA@Com



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