Every year, the British department store chain John Lewis & Partners releases a hotly anticipated, big-budget Christmas ad. Last year’s had a lovable monster. Previous installments featured four-legged trampolinists, a lonely man on the moon, a lovelorn penguin, an animated woodland duo.
But this year’s advertisement opens with something far less fantastical: A pensive-looking Elton John, sitting at a piano in a quiet living room.
He starts to play the opening notes of “Your Song” and then — well, see for yourself.
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