Research: 100 Greatest Music Video's - #88 Elton John , I Want Love

With this video, the whole enthasis is on the performce of hollywood actor Robert Downing Jr. The song is significant as it is very much all about the emotions and is demonstrated by the emotional performace of Jr. This may have been because he had been battling drug issues for the six years prior to the video. The video was shot as one continuous scene. It took 16 takes to do this.Elton continues to this day to use hollywood actors in his music video's instead of staring in them himself.