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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.
At the 19th Grammy Awards ceremony in 1977, "Afternoon Delight" received three nominations for recordings from 1976. It won the Grammy Award for Best Arrangement for Voices [9] and was also nominated for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals and Song of the Year. In 2010, Billboard named "Afternoon Delight" the 20th sexiest song of ...
Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player is the sixth studio album by English musician Elton John. [8] Released on 26 January 1973 by DJM Records, it was the first of two studio albums he released in 1973 (the second was Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, released nine months later), and was his second straight No. 1 album on the US Billboard 200 and first No. 1 album on the UK Albums Chart.
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. (However, the songs are published and ...
"Harmony" is a song written by English musician Elton John and songwriter Bernie Taupin, and performed by John. It is the final song on the 1973 double album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. The song was recorded in May 1973, at Château d'Hérouville, France. [1]
"Bennie and the Jets" (also titled "Benny & the Jets") is a song written by English musician Elton John and songwriter Bernie Taupin, and performed by John. [3] The song first appeared on the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album in 1973. "Bennie and the Jets" has been one of John's most popular songs and was performed during his appearance at Live Aid.
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