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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Certain Songs #393: Elton John – “Funeral For A Friend / Love Lies Bleeding”

December 13, 2015 by Jim Connelly

Elton Goodbye Yellow Album: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Year: 1973

In late 1973, with money that I either got for my birthday or Christmas, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road became the first album I bought at Tower Records.

I remember thinking that Tower seemed a bit overwhelming and scary. Unlike Rudy’s or White Front, it wasn’t a big store that had a record department, but rather, it was a big store that sold nothing but records! Whaaaaat?!?

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Certain Songs #392: Elton John – “Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting”

December 12, 2015 by Jim Connelly

Elton Goodbye Yellow Album: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Year: 1973

So, there’s something that’s always bothered me about the album cover of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. If he’s really saying “goodbye,” then why does the cover depict him stepping on to the Yellow Brick Road?

It never made any damn sense to me. Like how effete, glasses-wearing Elton pulled off this wonderful yobbo drinking song.

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