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  Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition - Island / Rocket Records -SACD
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Elton John's 7th major release followed a wealth of hit albums yielding a Greatest Hits just a year after this album's release.
The extravagance in GYBR is immediately heard in the first song, the spacious "Funeral For a Friend" with a hefty weigh-in at 11-plus minutes.
The memorable highlight of this issue is "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", at least for me. The opulence of Elton's piano and his voice on this song as well as the choir of voices that accompany him are simply beautiful.
www.musictap.net /Reviews/JohnEltonGoodbyeYellowSACD.html   (1295 words)

  
 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is the eighth album by British singer/songwriter Elton John, released in 1973 (see 1973 in music).
In 2003, the album was ranked number 91 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
The amount of material was such that Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was released as a double album, Elton John's first.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Goodbye_Yellow_Brick_Road   (256 words)

  
 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Goodbye Yellow Brick Road quick summary:
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is the eighth album album quick summary:
The amount of material was such that Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was released as a double album, EHandler: no quick summary.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/go/goodbye_yellow_brick_road.htm   (1245 words)

  
 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John Songfacts
In the movie, Dorothy and her friends follow the yellow brick road in search of the magical Wizard of Oz, only to find they had what they were looking for all along.
However, since the yellow brick road is associated with The Wizard of Oz and therefore also childhood, perhaps it's also about a desire to become innocent once again.
Maybe in "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", the man finds out the city's not all it's cracked up today, and heads back to his rural home with his tail between his legs.
www.songfacts.com /detail.php?id=3990   (765 words)

  
 Classic Albums: Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (2001)
Produced in 1973, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road gave Elton John his second number one album in both the American and British charts and provided him with four top ten singles.
Yellow Brick offers a minor look at Elton’s career prior to that landmark release, but the emphasis remains on the record itself.
Nonetheless, I thought Classic Albums: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was a consistently informative and engaging look at the recording of a famous record.
www.dvdmg.com /goodbyeyellowbrickroad.shtml   (2392 words)

  
 Elton John - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road topped the charts and is considered by many to be his best album.
The song, which was a tribute to Marilyn Monroe, was originally recorded in 1973 on his Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album.
In June 2005 he held a concert at Watford's Vicarage Road ground, donating the funds to the club.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elton_John   (4280 words)

  
 Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Classic Rock
Elton John was already a well-established act with six previous albums when Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was released in 1973, but this album catapulted him into the stratosphere of the American rock scene.
GYBR is a perfect demonstration of the way John’s musical hooks combined with Taupin’s writing to produce instant classics, just begging for the listener to sing along with the radio (not to mention instilling a great desire to run out and buy the album).
I got GYBR for Christmas the year it was released, and literally played it into oblivion.
www.bellaonline.com /articles/art899.asp   (453 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road [Original recording remastered]: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is both a joy for fans and a genuine surprise for the uninitiated.
Released in 1973, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is still seen by many as Elton John's best album and it's not difficult to see why.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road begins with the instrumental Funeral For A Friend which has something of the rock opera overture to it before segueing into the vocal Love Lies Bleeding.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000001DQI   (1801 words)

  
 Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (30th Anniversary Edition) - PopMatters Music Review
Elton John, for as much of a roll as he was on by the early '70s, didn't quite enter that esteemed bunch when he released Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
Such an equation is incomplete without a heavy dose of hubris, and Yellow Brick Road certainly has that, but its shortcomings are of a more pleasant variety than those of The Beatles.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road shows that he was much more than just the man questioning whether you can feel the love tonight.
www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/j/johnelton-goodbyedeluxe.shtml   (754 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: Music: Elton John   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
But even their lesser songs were still darn good, making GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD not only their crowning achievement, but a good example of how a double album should be made.
While the follow-up would indicate maybe the duo had written themselves out, GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD still showed Elton John & Bernie Taupin at the top of their respective games & even today, it's something they should still be enormously proud of.
"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" was a theme song of mine for a while - anybody stuck in a bad relationship can instantly relate to this song.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000001DQI?v=glance   (1161 words)

  
 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
There’s one of them with their mother, Corrine, posing with them on the yellow brick road.
Over the years, the yellow brick road has been unearthed and brought back to its original glory, fountains and a waterfall have been made operational, and Dorothy’s farm restored.
NOTE: People with original yellow bricks and other remains of the park are encouraged to bring them.
www.gazettearchives.com /lifearts2002/_disc4/000002a1.htm   (823 words)

  
 Elton John-Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Classic Albums) (2001)
While my personal favourite Elton John album is Madman Across The Water (largely thanks to the sublime Levon, and the orchestral scoring of Paul Buckmaster), it is undeniably Goodbye Yellow Brick Road that is the perfect candidate to be Elton John's entry into the Classic Albums series.
Not only did this album spawn four of the most famous Elton John songs in Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting, Bennie And The Jets, the title song Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, and the famous Candle In The Wind, but it was also Elton John's entry into the world of the double album.
As a side note, those of us who are entirely CD aged may comment that Goodbye Yellow Brick Road only comes on one CD - the double album refers to the fact that the original presentation was on two vinyl discs, making a total of four sides.
www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ReviewID=1028   (1461 words)

  
 BBC - Radio 2 - Critical List - Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
In 1973, when he released this mammoth double album, Elton was on his way to becoming one of the most popular musicians in the world, and it wasn't down to his vast shoe collection or dubious line in hairpieces.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road contains many of his and Bernie Taupin's most memorable songs, not least the original version of Candle in the Wind, now officially the biggest selling single in the world ever in its Princess Diana tribute version.
Although the overall effect rarely matches the sum of its parts, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road still ranks as one of the great double albums, and marked the former Reg Dwight's true coming of age.
www.bbc.co.uk /radio2/shows/criticallist/must_have_yellowbrick.shtml   (398 words)

  
 The CHUD.COM Message Boards - Classics: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
I don't have Yellow Brick Road, but intend to, sometime.
GYBR has too many great songs on it to enumerate here, I'll just suffice it to say it's on my all-time favorite list.
05-16-2002 08:02 AM Don't have the album, but GYBR came on the car radio as I was pulling into the parking lot for my high school freaking graduation.
www.chud.com /forums/printthread.php?t=25936   (590 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: Music: Elton John   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This latest edition restores the single B-Sides released with Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting to their rightful place.
In October, 1973 "Goodby Yellow Brick Road" was released as two LPs and re-released in 2003 as a two CD set under the cover of "30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition" in a hybrid SACD format.
However, the gamble that was "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" proved to pay off, as it spawned four chart hits, topped the album charts for eight weeks and is regarded as one of the greatest pop albums of all time.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000E64TR?v=glance   (2007 words)

  
 HTGuide Forum - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road DVD-A
I just bought the DVD-A of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and I cannot seem to play the advanced resolution audio stream.
PS - Gaucho, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and Tommy are reportedly available in SACD versions via "mail order".
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road on SACD is phenomenal in multi-channel or 2-channel.
www.htguide.com /forum/showthread.php4?t=8933   (773 words)

  
 Dawson's Creek: Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road - TV.com
The ensuing fight opens old wounds and leaves the three friends believing their friendship will never be the same.
The title of this episode is a song by Elton John, continuing this seasons use of titles related to music.
Tell the world what you think of Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road, write a review for this episode.
www.tv.com /dawsons-creek/goodbye-yellow-brick-road/episode/191879/summary.html   (369 words)

  
 Rufus Wainwright Message Board: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Request   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ive searched all over, and I don't even know if a recording was ever made but I would absolutely love it if anybody had an mp3 or whatever of Rufus' cover of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John, which I found on sams list of rufus' work.
It says that he performed it at the NAMM tribute to Elton on 17/1/03 in Anaheim, California and I would be eternally grateful if anybody could tell me whether theres a copy of this floating around somewhere.
Excellent version of Yellow brick road.How would i copy that onto a cd as everyone may gather as i continuosly tell people how bad i am with my computer.
bb.dreamworksrecords.com /rufuswainwright/showflat.php?Number=246089   (1430 words)

  
 Powazek: Just a Thought: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Heather and I went on road trips with more music than we could ever play.
In the last few years, Apple came out with the final two nails in the coffin of my physical media consumption: the iTunes Music Store, which cut out the CD altogether; and Airport Express, a little white box that finally connected the computer to the living room.
This page is an individual entry called “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” that I wrote on 4 February 2006.
www.powazek.com /2006/02/000563.html   (1440 words)

  
 Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elton John epochal double album "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" is given a thorough audio make over on this release.
When it originally appeared in 1973 Elton was already well on the way to international stardom, combining the songwriting skills of Bernie Taupin with his own knack for a killer melody.
While most records with such a lengthy track listing usually contain a fair amount of filler, "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" is the exact opposite: An exhilarating pop/rock album from start to finish.
rottentomatoes.com /m/elton_john_goodbye_yellow_brick_road/about.php   (350 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Elton John - Classic Albums: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This installment of the Classic Albums series, in which rock stars talk about the creation of their albums, focuses on the making of what may have been Elton John's seminal record, Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road.
GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD gave Elton John his second number one album in both the American and British charts and provided him with four top ten singles.
Goodbye YBR was an outstanding double album which truly has made an impact in the music world.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005Q2Z4   (601 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Rm): Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Even those who customarily dismiss Elton John as a somewhat bland and sentimental balladeer would find much to admire in Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, the best album he has ever made.
Rarely mentioned as one of the great double albums, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road had to settle for ending up in a few million record collections.
If you were to listen to "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" you will see why so many people say this.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000001DQI   (590 words)

  
 Tower Records - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road [Remaster] - Elton John   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Generally regarded as Elton John's masterpiece, GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD is a double-album (on one CD) that includes several of his signature songs alongside a sprawling array of lesser-known (but by no means lesser) tunes.
The rocking "All The Girls Love Alice" is one of the era's most overt references to lesbianism, and "Harmony," the soft ballad that closes the album, may be John's grandest melody.
Willfully eclectic and packed with great music, GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD bursts with the bold energy and undeniable talent that made John a superstar.
www.towerrecords.com /product.aspx?pfid=1512576   (424 words)

  
 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Commentary: The Federal Aviation Adminstration's administrator charts a a plan to revolutionize the highways in the sky.
As more and more airplanes fill the skies, the operating restrictions cause delays that cost airlines and their passengers an estimated $3 billion a year.
But the days of the Yellow Brick Road in U.S. airspace are probably numbered.
www.airandspacemagazine.com /ASM/Mag/Index/1995/ON/gybr.html   (1443 words)

  
 Tim's Blog: Elton John Song Lyrics: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
A log of Tim's thoughts and just random things that I might come across during my work day that I find could be something of an interest to my friends, family and random people that might happen upon it.
Elton John Song Lyrics: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elton John Song Lyrics: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: "When are you gonna come down
www.sierramiles.com /blog/2005/07/elton-john-song-lyrics-goodbye-yellow.html   (141 words)

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