Goodbye Yellow Brick Road [2 LP Remastered]

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Elton JohnGoodbye Yellow Brick Roadon 180g 2LP + Download Card

2014 Version Newly Mastered for Vinyl by Doug Sax and Robert Hadley at The Mastering Lab, CA

Goodbye Yellow Brick Roadwas the album that turnedElton Johninto a true superstar. Although he was already known in 1973 due to the growing success of his previous albums – including Dont Shoot Me Im Only The Piano Player, Elton John and Honky Chateau – it was the release of this double album that made Eltona household name, going on to sell a staggering 31-million copies. Goodbye… perfectly marries the various elements of Eltons craft: classic songwriting, glam stomp, R&B, gospel, jaw-dropping performances, soul and a large helping of brilliant showmanship.
The album spent eight weeks at No.1 and went platinum seven times over in the U.S. It also contains Elton and co-writer Bernie Taupins most successful song, Candle in the Wind; a No.1 hit three times, in three different versions, in three successive decades, ultimately becoming the biggest-selling single of all time. It also features dynamite standards such as Saturday Nights Alright for Fighting and Bennie and the Jets, the latter being the song that led to Elton becoming the first white performer to appear on the influential American R&B TV show Soul Train. The album is also ranked No. 91 in Rolling Stone magazines Top 100 Greatest Albums Of All Time chart. In a career filled with highlights that other artists can only dream of,Goodbye Yellow Brick Roadstands as a towering achievement, a defining moment in the most exciting era in rock history.
Often referred to as the pinnacle of Elton and co-writer Bernie Taupins creative powers and commercial success,Goodbye Yellow Brick Roadwas the eighth studio album the pair had released in a three-year period. But the recording of the album wasn’t the smoothest of experiences. After initial attempts at recording in Kingston, Jamaica, were derailed by the double whammy of industrial action at the studio and further disruption was caused by a world boxing title fight in the town, Elton and the band returned to the familiar settings of Chateau dHerouville. The album was completed in a staggering seventeen days (including mixing!) and the result is a body of work of huge ambition – kicking off with the grandiose, epic prog rock sound of Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding, and effortlessly segueing between pop, hard rock, soul, and stunning heart-wrenching ballads.
The album artwork was also a giant leap forward creatively for Elton. Whereas earlier album artwork either didnt feature Elton at all, or showed him as an earnest early 70s songwriter, here he can been seen resplendent in sparkling platform boots, a satin bomber jacket and, of course, his soon-to-be trademark flamboyant eyewear. The sight of him stepping from an unglamorous normal street into a magical fantasy world is not only a metaphor for the transition he was going through as an artist but is one of the most defining images of early 1970s rock music.
Newlymastered for vinyl by Doug Sax and Robert Hadleyat The Mastering Lab, California and pressed on180-gram audiophile quality vinylwith accompanyingdownload card.
Elton John GoodbyeYellow Brick RoadTrack Listing:
LP11. Funeral For A Friend2. Love Lies Bleeding3. Candle In The Wind4. Bennie And The Jets5. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road6. This Song Has No Title7. Grey Seal8. Jamaica Jerk Off
LP21. I’ve Seen that Movie Too2. Sweet Painted Lady3. The Ballad Of Danny Bailey (1909-34)4. Dirty Little Girl5. All the Girls Love Alice6. Your Sister Can’t Twist (But She Can Rock’n’Roll)7. Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting8. Roy Rogers9. Social Disease10. Harmony