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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

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This article is about the Elton John album. For the single of the same name, see Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (song).

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Studio album by Elton John
Released	October 5, 1973
Recorded	Château d'Hérouville, Hérouville, France, May 1973
Genre	Rock, glam rock, pop
Length	76:12
Label	MCA Records (US/Canada) DJM Records
Producer	Gus Dudgeon
Professional reviews
Allmusic link Robert Christgau (B) link Rolling Stone link
Elton John chronology
Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player (1973) Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) Caribou (1974)

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is the seventh studio album by British singer-songwriter Elton John, released in 1973. It is regarded by many as his magnum opus. With worldwide sales of at least 31 million copies it is his best selling studio album. In 2000 Q magazine placed it at number 84 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2003, the album was ranked number 91 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Contents [hide] 1 History 2 Track listing 2.1 Side one 2.2 Side two 2.3 Side three 2.4 Side four 2.5 Bonus tracks (2003 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) 3 B-sides 4 Personnel 5 Production 6 Charts 6.1 Album 6.2 Singles 7 Certifications 8 References

[edit] History

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was recorded at the Château d'Hérouville, where John had previously recorded Honky Château and Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player. The amount of material was such that Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was released as a double album, his first. This album had originally been planned to be recorded in Jamaica, since The Rolling Stones had recorded Goats Head Soup there. Technical difficulties, coupled with political unrest in the country at the time, forced the band to make an early departure without any productive work done.^[1]
In addition to the three successful singles released from this album (see below), many other cuts received substantial airplay at AOR stations when the album was released, including "Harmony"; the 11-minute epic, "Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding"; and his Marilyn Monroe tribute, "Candle in the Wind".