Healing Hands (Elton John song)

"Healing Hands"
Single by Elton John
from the album Sleeping with the Past
A-side
B-side
  • "Dancing in the End Zone"
  • (first release)
Released7 August 1989[1]
Length4:21
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Chris Thomas[2]
Elton John singles chronology
"Through the Storm"
(1989)
"Healing Hands"
(1989)
"Sacrifice"
(1989)
Music video
"Healing Hands" on YouTube

"Healing Hands" is a song by English musician Elton John, written by John and Bernie Taupin, from John's 1989 album, Sleeping with the Past. The single was released in August 1989 and was a top-20 hit in the United States. A reissued version (paired as a double A-side single with "Sacrifice") became the singer's first solo number-one single in the United Kingdom in June 1990.

The song was inspired by the Four Tops song "Reach Out, I'll Be There".[3] Produced by Chris Thomas, it was the first of three singles released from the album, with the follow-ups being "Sacrifice" and "Club at the End of the Street".

  1. ^ "New Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 5 August 1989. p. 41. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
  2. ^ "Healing Hands". AllMusic. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
  3. ^ Cassata, Mary Anne (2002). The Elton John Scrapbook. Citadel Press. p. 38. ISBN 9780806523224.