I Want Love


"I Want Love" is a 2001 song by Elton John, co-written with Bernie Taupin. It was released as a single from his Songs from the West Coast album.
The song reached the top ten in Canada and the United Kingdom. In the US, "I Want Love" reached No. 110 on the Billboard Hot 100's "Bubbling Under" chart and number six on the Adult Contemporary chart. The song also featured in an advert for Royal Mail, in which John starred.
"I Want Love" was nominated for a Grammy award in 2002 for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.
The music video was shot with the actor Robert Downey Jr. walking through Greystone Mansion and lip-syncing the song. Video director Sam Taylor-Wood shot 16 takes of the video and used the last one because, according to John, Downey looked completely relaxed, and, "The way he underplays it is fantastic".
"I Want Love" is included as the second song in the soundtrack of the 2019 film Rocketman.

Chart history

Chris Stapleton cover

covered "I Want Love" in the spring of 2018. It is included on the compilation album, Restoration: Reimagining the Songs of Elton John and Bernie Taupin.