Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

This article is about the Elton John album. For the song, see Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (song). For the television episode, see Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (FlashForward).

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
A wall with a worn poster showing a yellow brick road winding down towards the green plains and the sunset. Elton John, shown with a purple jacket bearing his name, has his right foot on the yellow brick road and his right hand holding on to the poster. On the sidewalk, a miniature piano with a musical note. The album's title is placed above the poster.
Studio album by
Elton John
Released5 October 1973
RecordedMay 1973
StudioChâteau d'Hérouville, Hérouville, France; remixed and overdubbed at Trident, London
Genre
Length76:20
LabelDJM
ProducerGus Dudgeon
Elton John chronology
Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player
(1973) 		Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
(1973) 		Lady Samantha
(1974)
Singles from Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
  1. "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting"
    Released: 29 June 1973
  2. "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"
    Released: 7 September 1973
  3. "Bennie and the Jets"
    Released: 4 February 1974
  4. "Candle in the Wind"
    Released: 22 February 1974

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] Among the 17 tracks, the album contains the hits "Candle in the Wind", US number-one single "Bennie and the Jets", "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" and "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting", along with the live favourite "Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding".

The album was a strong commercial success, reaching number one on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart; it has since sold more than 20 million copies worldwide and is widely regarded as John's magnum opus.[4][5] It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2003,[6] and continues to be highly regarded in various rankings. It was ranked number 112 on Rolling Stone's 2020 list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time".

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  3. ^ Tobler, John (1995). "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road". albumlinernotes.com.
  4. ^ Moon, Tom (2008). 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die. Workman Publishing Company. p. 399. ISBN 9780761139638. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  5. ^ "Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Review". UdiscoverMusic. 21 February 2020. Retrieved 19 June 2022.
  6. ^ "Grammy Hall of Fame Award Archived 7 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Grammy.org. Retrieved 21 December 2012