It caused all sorts of chaos – but it was a great party.” The music video was also supposed to be shot in two days, but due to Mulcahy accidentally falling into the sea with the film from the first day, so ended up all being shot in one.

We got him so drunk that eventually he went upstairs and threw a wobbler in his suite. ‘Ooh, you are lovely boys,’ he screeched, loving every minute of it. We decided it would be a laugh to get him drunk and we were slinging the drinks down him. This was before Elton became teetotal, so he was still a steaming party animal we went up to see him at his hotel and spent the afternoon getting blasted on Martinis. Andy Taylor from Duran Duran spoke about the day in his book “Wild Boy: My Life in Duran Duran”: There were lots of celebrities around in Cannes and one day we discovered that Elton John was in town, filming the video for his song I’m Still Standing. The infamous English boyband at the time Duran Duran, bumped into Elton while he was shooting for the video. I think he played one of the traffic policemen dressed in leg warmers and a leotard.” Bruno Tonioli, who’s a judge of Dancing with the Stars, was one of our dancers. We had leather boys, and mimes, and kissing clowns. My costume designer was in charge of body-painting all the boys. It was shown on the new (at the time) MTV, and Mulcahy spoke to “I Want My MTV!”, saying: “Elton John’s ‘I’m Still Standing’ was super, super, super gay. The music video was directed by Russell Mulcahy, and was shot in Cannes (outside the InterContinental Carlton Cannes hotel) and Nice in the Côte d’Azur in France. However, one could also assume it could be meant to be sung at an ex-lover, showing them that they’re “still standing” and still surviving without them. It is said that John and his lyricist Bernie Taupin wrote this as a “reaction to still being relevant and successful in the early 1980s, post-punk and with the New-Romantics creeping in”, although this has not been confirmed by either Taupin or John, but makes sense when looking closer at the lyrics.

The track consists of Elton telling his doubters that he is still relevant and “still standing”. “I’m Still Standing” is the second track from musical icon Elton John’s seventeenth studio album “Too Low for Zero”, released in 1983.

Im still standing lyric