Elton John Starred In Touching Christmas Commercial Showing Emotional Trip Down Memory Lane

Nov 27, 2018 by apost team

Could there be a more human image than Elton John seventy years on, away from the crowds and celebrity, reflecting on his life alone at home during the Holidays? He sits before a grungy old upright piano. It looks so ordinary.

That’s how a wonderful 2018 holiday message from John Lewis and Partners Department Store begins, and in an eye-popping progression, we travel with Elton as he remembers his career. He reaches back to solo concerts of the 1990s when he sat at the monolithic Yamaha piano and played old favorites like Your Song.

From there we travel to the riotous 1970s. In all his costumed glory, Elton horses with his mates and does somersaults on his stunning piano.

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We continue back to honky tonk rock venues, high school parties and gym recitals, and finally, we arrive inside the simple home where Elton grew up. He’s about six-years-old, and his mother leads him to a huge present wrapped up and standing against the wall.

He pulls off the gift wrap and discovers his Mom has given him a piano, a brown finished upright with nifty carving and ivory keys.

Full of wonder, the young boy hits the first two notes that would launch his illustrious career, the first two notes of Your Song. It’s such a corny old piano. The commercial cuts back to the present, to Elton, a seventy-year-old man today, and he sits before that very piano, and he plays those magical two notes!

“Some Gifts are More than Just a Gift” is the tagline! It’s a tear-jerking moment for anyone. It's sure to tug at every viewer’s heart. The tagline’s importance is hard to miss.

The old knight himself thought a lot of the commercial. “It’s incredibly moving to see such treasured moments re-imagined on screen,” Elton John is reported to have said. “No matter what happens in your life, those moments from your childhood mold you and stay with you forever.”

It just goes to show how wonderful things can happen when you bring talented people together to express such a meaningful idea.

Elton John’s Christmas commercial is a heartwarming, positive message about the Holidays. If you want, reflect on this commercial and give us your opinion. Don't forget to spread this warm Christmas cheer to your loved ones!