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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is the seventh studio album by English singer, pianist, and composer Elton John. A double album, it was released on 5 October 1973, by DJM Records. Recorded at the Château d'Hérouville in France, the album became a double LP once John and his band became inspired by the locale. [3]
"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" is a ballad written by English musician Elton John and songwriter Bernie Taupin, and performed by John. It is the title track on John's album of the same name . The titular road is a reference to L. Frank Baum 's The Wizard of Oz film and book series.
Alvin and the Chipmunks covered this song for their 1969 album The Chipmunks Go to the Movies. In December 1972, Eugene Cernan sang the song on the surface of the Moon while hopping in lunar gravity. Mitch Miller and his male chorus later recorded a single of the song for the children's label Golden Records. Singer Anne Lloyd was featured as ...
Follow the Yellow Brick Road - You're Off To See The Wizard; If I Only Had a Brain; We're Off To See The Wizard (Duo) If I Only Had a Heart; We're Off To See The Wizard (Trio) Lions, Tigers And Bears; If I Only Had the Nerve; We're Off To See The Wizard (Quartet) Out Of The Woods; Entr'acte; Merry Old Land Of Oz; If I Were King of the Forest ...
Here, in celebratory post-disco mode, Vandross’ epic song-craft and Jones’ lustrous, French horn-filled production gives this yellow brick road song a solid gold lift. Michael Jackson – “I ...
Elton’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour itself has been a long journey, indeed: John announced his retirement from touring almost five years ago, back in January 2018. And he’s hardly kept a ...
In the 2001 Eagle Vision documentary, Classic Albums: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, John said the two songs were not written as one piece, but fit together since "Funeral for a Friend" ends in the key of A, and "Love Lies Bleeding" opens in A, and the two were played as one elongated piece when recorded.
John has continued performing "Sad Songs (Say So Much)" as of 2023, as he included the song in his Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour setlist. Apart from the 1984 Breaking Hearts Tour (both the European and the North American leg), no other songs from the album have been performed live except "Restless" and " Passengers ", on the following 1985 ...