Goodbye Yellow Brick Road remains Elton‘s most popular and successful studio album, spending over 100 weeks on the US and UK charts. This, his first double LP, contains some of Elton’s most recognizable songs: Candle In The Wind, Bennie And The Jets, Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting), and the title track. The album spent eight weeks at the No. 1 position on the Billboard Top 200 and hit No.1 in Australia, Canada, and the UK.
BPI status: 2x Platinum
RIAA status: 8x Platinum
Liner Notes
Music & Lyrics by ELTON JOHN & BERNIE TAUPIN
Produced by GUS DUDGEON
Orchestral Arrangements by DEL NEWMAN
Recorded at Château d’Hérouville, Hérouville, FR