{"id":2233609,"date":"2026-11-08T07:49:21","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T12:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wioe.com\/site\/?p=2233609"},"modified":"2026-11-08T07:52:03","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T12:52:03","slug":"elton-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wioe.com\/site\/2026\/11\/elton-john\/","title":{"rendered":"Elton John"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Elton John<\/strong>&#8216;s 1989 music video for &#8220;Sacrifice&#8221; has surpassed one billion views on <em>YouTube<\/em>, becoming the legendary British singer-songwriter&#8217;s first entry in the platform&#8217;s Billion Views Club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The video, directed by <strong>Alek Keshishian<\/strong>, stars supermodel <strong>Yasmeen Ghauri<\/strong> and singer-songwriter <strong>Chris Isaak<\/strong> as a married couple whose relationship gradually breaks down, leading to separation and single parenthood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Sacrifice&#8221; was released as the second single from John&#8217;s 22nd studio album, <em>Sleeping with the Past<\/em>. Although it peaked at No. 18 on the <em>Billboard Hot 100<\/em>, the song gained wider success after being reissued as a double A-side with &#8220;Healing Hands&#8221; in 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The release topped the U.K. Singles Chart for five consecutive weeks, giving John his first solo No. 1 in his home country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elton John&#8216;s 1989 music video for &#8220;Sacrifice&#8221; has surpassed one billion views on YouTube, becoming the legendary British singer-songwriter&#8217;s first entry in the platform&#8217;s Billion Views Club. The video, directed by Alek Keshishian, stars supermodel Yasmeen Ghauri and singer-songwriter Chris Isaak as a married couple whose relationship gradually breaks down, leading to separation and single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2233609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wioe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wioe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wioe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wioe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wioe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2233609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wioe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2233610,"href":"https:\/\/wioe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233609\/revisions\/2233610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wioe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2233609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wioe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2233609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wioe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2233609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}