Goodbye yellow brick road

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road somehow managed to become even bigger than everything that came before, selling more than thirty million records and topping the album charts for an incredible eight weeks. Elton John has been a superstar for nearly forty-five years, but this was the peak. The only thing I ever remember him doing was smoking a little dope back in the late s in the studio with Dick James. When I did go to that momentous day at the Troubador in Los Angeles and I got the review from Robert Hilburn, it was a shock to people in the audience. It was important to me that they play on Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Obviously, we had grand intentions that came crashing to the ground once we got there and saw the studio, which was, to put it bluntly, abysmal. Both the albums I mentioned are really good. The studio workers were on strike, so we had to cross a picket line to get into the studio. Then some of the equipment broke down. We spent a lot of time congregating around the pool area of the hotel, feeling there was safety in numbers.

The song's music was composed by John, while the lyrics were written by Bernie Taupin. Its musical style and production were heavily influenced by s soft rock.

The album has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide [2] and is widely regarded as John's best. The move provided John and his band with a great deal of creative inspiration, and an abundance of quality material was produced, leading to the decision to release the work as a double album LP. In , the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Under the working titles of Vodka and Tonics and Silent Movies, Talking Pictures , Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics in two and a half weeks, with John composing most of the music in three days while staying at the Pink Flamingo Hotel in Kingston, Jamaica. Production on the album was started in Jamaica in January , but due to difficulties with the sound system and the studio piano, logistical issues arising from the Joe Frazier - George Foreman boxing match taking place in Kingston, and protests over the political and economic situation in the country, the band decided to move before any productive work was done. According to the album's producer, Gus Dudgeon , the album was not planned as a two-record collection. John and Taupin composed a total of 22 tracks for the album, [8] of which 18 counting "Funeral for a Friend" and "Love Lies Bleeding" as two distinct tracks were used, enough that it was released as a double album, John's first three more such albums followed up to Through the medium of cinematic metaphor, the album builds on nostalgia for a childhood and culture left in the past. The album was released on 5 October as a double LP, with cover art by illustrator Ian Beck depicting John stepping into a poster. The original LP, when released on CD, was released on two discs, while the and CD remasters put the album on one disc as it was slightly less than 80 minutes.

It was designed to be a blockbuster and it was. This was truly the debut of Elton John the entertainer, the pro who knows how to satisfy every segment of his audience, and this eagerness to please means the record is giddy but also overwhelming, a rush of too much muchness. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Blues Classical Country. Electronic Folk International. Jazz Latin New Age. Aggressive Bittersweet Druggy. Energetic Happy Hypnotic. Romantic Sad Sentimental.

In , the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Under the working titles of Vodka and Tonics and Silent Movies, Talking Pictures , Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics in two and a half weeks, with John composing most of the music in three days while staying at the Pink Flamingo Hotel in Kingston, Jamaica.

Production on the album was started in Jamaica in January , but due to difficulties with the sound system and the studio piano, logistical issues arising from the Joe Frazier - George Foreman boxing match taking place in Kingston, and protests over the political and economic situation in the country, the band decided to move before any productive work was done. According to the album's producer, Gus Dudgeon , the album was not planned as a two-record collection. John and Taupin composed a total of 22 tracks for the album, [8] of which 18 counting "Funeral for a Friend" and "Love Lies Bleeding" as two distinct tracks were used, enough that it was released as a double album, John's first three more such albums followed up to Through the medium of cinematic metaphor, the album builds on nostalgia for a childhood and culture left in the past.

The album was released on 5 October as a double LP, with cover art by illustrator Ian Beck depicting John stepping into a poster. The original LP, when released on CD, was released on two discs, while the and CD remasters put the album on one disc as it was slightly less than 80 minutes. The 30th anniversary edition followed the original format, splitting the album across two discs to allow the inclusion of the bonus tracks, while a DVD on the making of the album was also included.

The album has also been released by Mobile Fidelity as a single disc 24 karat gold CD. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is widely regarded as John's best album, and is one of his most popular; [8] it is his best-selling studio album.

In the UK, "Candle in the Wind" was released as a single instead of "Bennie and the Jets," which was used as the b-side. All tracks are written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin. Note: The version of "Whenever You're Ready We'll Go Steady Again " appears to be taken directly from the compilation album " Lady Samantha " whereas it features the fade out of applause from the previous track on that album "Rock 'n Roll Madonna" at the beginning of the track and the intro drum roll from "Bad Side of the Moon" at the end of the track.

This is likely an error. Note: The DVD version of this film edits about 10 minutes from the original documentary, which ran for 56 minutes. According to the album's liner notes.

Track numbers refer to CD and digital releases of the album. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the Elton John album.

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