| Recover Your Soul | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Elton John |
| Album: | The Big Picture |
| A-Side: | "Recover Your Soul" (single remix) |
| Released: | (UK) (US) |
| Recorded: | November 1996 – May 1997 |
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| Genre: | Pop |
| Length: | 4:16 (single remix) 5:18 (album version) |
| Producer: | Chris Thomas |
| Prev Title: | Something About the Way You Look Tonight |
| Prev Title2: | Candle in the Wind 1997 |
| Prev Year: | 1997 |
| Next Title: | If the River Can Bend |
| Next Year: | 1998 |
"Recover Your Soul" is a song by English musician Elton John, written by John and Bernie Taupin. It was released in April 1998 by Mercury and Rocket as the second single from John's twenty-fifth studio album, The Big Picture (1997). The song passed a little bit in the shadow of a huge-success single "Something About the Way You Look Tonight" / "Candle in the Wind 1997". John played this song a couple of times in between 1998 and 1999.[1]
A reviewer from Music Week gave the song two out of five, writing, "An optimistic follow-up to "Candle '97" will be a relief for many but, while sure to please his fans, this track is far from a classic Elton record."[2] The magazine's Alan Jones added, "An easy-paced and unforced mid-tempo AOR song, it draws a fine vocal from Elton, redolent of his superb interpretation of "Sacrifice", and its optimistic tone is ideal for radio."[3]
The accompanying music video for "Recover Your Soul" was directed by German director Marcus Nispel and shot at the Loew's Jersey Theatre in Jersey City with actor/comedian Victor Varnado as the role of the gramophone angel.