Goodbye Yellow Brick Road should have been nominated for Album of the Year.
@Fuzcapp11 ай бұрын
1973 was a year of so many albums of the year. GBYBR, Band on the Run, Dark Side of the Moon, Hot August Night ... Even Elton's other '73 offering, Don't Shoot Me ... Bowie did 3 albums that year. Personally, I think 1973 was the greatest year ever for albums. So, it was truly a toss of the coin which record to give Album of the year to in 1973. So many classic bands making classic albums that year.
@jmcrae825 Жыл бұрын
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is what happens when a brilliant lyricist and brilliant musicians collaborate.
@Fuzcapp11 ай бұрын
With brilliant musicians, producers and arrangers.
@MrROTD11 жыл бұрын
If I could only have 10 great albums this would be one of them
@babylemonade2868 Жыл бұрын
Not a bad song on it👍
@Fuzcapp11 ай бұрын
This would be 2 of them? 🙂
@Fuzcapp11 ай бұрын
@@babylemonade2868 Jamaica Jerk Off?
@rustypugh12311 күн бұрын
No doubt
@rexpayne7836 Жыл бұрын
My very first album in 73, and still one of my favourites. 😊
@Fuzcapp11 ай бұрын
Wow! What a way to start your record collection!
@graceonline320 Жыл бұрын
Wow 50 years have passed! Shocking!!
@Frankincensedjb12311 жыл бұрын
This has to be one of the top rock albums of all time. I don't like much of Elton beyond the 70s, but this is certainly the pinnacle. I remember doing Funeral for a Friend and Love Lies Bleeding for my college music grad program. I've loved this album for decades. Epic.
@normatible9795 Жыл бұрын
Agreed. A fellow Architect gifted me this album , in the 70s , añd to this day, i treasure it
@stevek6518 Жыл бұрын
Yeah Elton had an amazing run of albums from the self titled debut to Tumbleweed, Don't Shoot Me, Madman, Honky and then this double album. What an output. I also don't care for most of what followed but this streak is my favorite music
@jdenino60228 ай бұрын
This was his most creative period ❤
@billrandel8006 Жыл бұрын
My first concert 1975 Olympia stadium Detroit. Wing high box. Me and Leslie and co workers. Never forget it. Started funeral for a friend. Ended sat. Nights alright for fighting
@familypurcell8008 Жыл бұрын
I remember buying this album when it came out! Amazing album!
@js-td8gt Жыл бұрын
I thought "Madman Across the Water" was genius, and then "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" came out and just blew me away.
@CaelisAcademyEnsemble Жыл бұрын
Absolutely awesome video - we’ve pondered many of the same questions. So much love for Elton in our group. Looking forward to more.
@ScottHuffman14211 жыл бұрын
I grew up as a fan (I'm 26), but I just recently got this album in its entirety. It is true magic.
@soyeux27 Жыл бұрын
I watched all four parts in one sitting. Ate my meal cold.
@Justicefordadmom24 күн бұрын
❤❤❤ GUS WAS A MASTERMIND AND TRUE VISIONARY
@Luileadolfo10 ай бұрын
Gus Dudgeon was the best producer Elton John and band, ever had. He understood and knew their capabilities.
@EDOGG6226 күн бұрын
Masterpiece. As a professional musician myself (Berklee Grad), the thought of writing a classic song in 10 minutes or less, and then doing the basic tracks in 1-2 takes is mind-boggling.
@user-zm6jd9yz3d Жыл бұрын
Interesting journey from conception to product on this classic rock album.
@MichaelAdventures2287 Жыл бұрын
❤❤❤long live Elton and berny!!!
@simonmacdonald611011 ай бұрын
iam surprised there isn't a 50th anniversary edition. I just got the remastered version and since i am deaf in one ear and one eye .i can still hear both channels nicely. i hope Sir Elton releases achieved bootlegs or FM radio broadcasts as a lot of bands are doing the same. My favourite track on This album is I see that Movie Too and Sweet Painted Lady both sequel into the order of tracks. Olsson drums are superbly played also tuned with his tom toms .
@Fuzcapp11 ай бұрын
My favourite Elton John song is I've Seen that Movie Too. Great pick!!! The interplay between the orchestra and the guitar at the end is just awesome.
@jasoncarpp774211 жыл бұрын
Awesome music! Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is definitely one of Sir Elton John's best records. I have it on cd and I've literally worn it out!
@petefluffy7420 Жыл бұрын
CDs do not wear out.
@jasoncarpp7742 Жыл бұрын
@@petefluffy7420 Really?
@petefluffy7420 Жыл бұрын
@@jasoncarpp7742 Of course. What wore on yours?
@tomnisen3358 Жыл бұрын
I've had 5 copies
@Tickbryan12 жыл бұрын
I always heard Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was about Elton breaking away from MCA. "maybe they'll get a replacement, there's plenty like me to be found. Mongrels who ain't got a penny, sniffing for tidbit's like you on the ground".
@llschnitz28 күн бұрын
More like his British label DJM.
@c.c.hiliner1065Ай бұрын
A 1973 gift for the Ages....
@edcjke10 жыл бұрын
Wonderful!
@whippleLopez Жыл бұрын
Elton masterpiece wig or no wig
@stephenfarthing88586 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing your insights
@22077310 жыл бұрын
So sad Gus Dudgeon died a few months after recording this documentary... I'll never forget when I first saw it, not knowing Gus had passed away, only to learn the news soon afterwards doing some research on Google... :-(
@foxygirl19779 жыл бұрын
Gus Dudgeon was a major part of Elton's career. It's a shame that he's no longer with us. Same goes for Dee Murray.
@jdenino60228 ай бұрын
Brilliant documentary ❤
@pianoman31312 жыл бұрын
Never thought of it that way, it would make sense though.
@ViniciusFiocco11 жыл бұрын
who needs it when you're a rockstar genius?
@Tickbryan11 жыл бұрын
That's why Elton started The Rocket Record Company, his own label.
@andrewvincent54729 жыл бұрын
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Houses of the Holy, We Are Only In It For the Money, and, self titled Black Sabbath are my Essential go-to album's of the 1970's, and the one of the late 1960's too.
@johnscialfa7391 Жыл бұрын
Greatest album ever.
@Somefrickface9 жыл бұрын
4:57 Yeah, especially when the pitch is raised. A LOT.
@SluffAdlin9 жыл бұрын
Ryan99G it was from the 1973 documentary "Say Goodbye to Norma Jean and Other Things". The pitched was raised on most of the songs (except Danny Bailey and Candle in the Wind and the live material)...why? who knows. Why Classic Albums kept it like that? again Who Knows?
@timothymarkin4481 Жыл бұрын
Great album, love it, but Capt Fantastic is my all-time fave EJ album
@aaronjohnson34638 ай бұрын
Amen brother. Captain fantastic is superior
@CaptainCraigKWMRZ Жыл бұрын
This is the first album I ever bought with my own money. At the Sears record department! I think it was $5.99😂.
@DarkGates811 жыл бұрын
Couldn't agree more.
@itsALLartVideos11 жыл бұрын
In an interview I read a long time ago in Rolling Stone, he mentioned that he had been thinking of leaving at the time but was talked out of it later.
@javascript6948 Жыл бұрын
Eltons band Nigel , Dee and Davey were an underrated and unsung Heros of all of the albums they played on . When he let them go he lost his sound and my attention.
@louise_rose Жыл бұрын
Agree, it's true that they helped define his sound over those peak years. This is an exuberant double album recorded in just a few weeks and with songs going in many directions - only a really seasoned band could have held it together. After 1975 he didn't really have a stable band for several years.
@Fuzcapp Жыл бұрын
So agree - their backing vocals on Candle in the Wind, are enough for them to be in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame.
@0VistaDelMar010 жыл бұрын
Ya, I still have tinitis in one ear from the rock of the westies concert. Its all good in documentary isn't it. I still love the music but there is a dichotomy in the telling of it that many of us can relate to I'm sure.
@andrew2394711 жыл бұрын
RIP Gus dugeon
@wespaul93459 ай бұрын
I got bored with this which is a shame because I'm a big fan of the release. A friend gave it to me around 1976 as a gift on two cassettes. I flogged the first and periodically played the second. But that's good enough. As a 12 yo I smashed that 1st side...love lies bleeding and so on. It's one of the greats. And I'm grateful for the company EJ and band afforded me
@noscrubbubblez6515 Жыл бұрын
I always picture the funeral burial opening scenes to Dr.Zhivago when I hear the beginning (prelude?) to Funeral for a Friend. ??
@tommym321 Жыл бұрын
Probably the bleakest imagery ever put in film.
@EltonJohn213311 жыл бұрын
Amoreena from the Tumbleweed Connection album.
@TonyTube40711 жыл бұрын
Where has this documentary been hiding? GBYBR has been one of my most favorite albums for a very long time. Does anyone know if there is a recording of piano-only music by Elton of Funeral For a Friend like he was playing at the beginning of this video?
@NVRAMboi Жыл бұрын
Best I can do, 10 years too late: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a7ahjMVq3rrVdKM.html
@llschnitz28 күн бұрын
I watched it way back in the Seventies on TV but it would get shown like Sunday night at 12:30pm or something. If you missed it, you had to wait an entire year for it to come back on. If you were lucky. Think I saw it twice. Then Forty years later I came across it on a DVD at FYE in the mall with a different title. And now its on KZfaq. Absolutely Wonderful watching these Geniuses work!
@itsALLartVideos11 жыл бұрын
The idea of Elton having ever held a plow (or going back to one) strikes me as very humorous. :-) (yes, I know Bernie wrote the words.)
@beachlifebestlife3 ай бұрын
genius.....
@philiptownsend4026 Жыл бұрын
Love the lionels.
@DrivinBarefoot11 жыл бұрын
Why does the "Making of Goodbye Yellowbrick Road" documentary use music not found on the album? lol
@wonderwoman2997 Жыл бұрын
Blue Moves, Eltons 2nd double album was released in 1976 and is CRIMINALLY IGNORED
@mjsmcd Жыл бұрын
What are the best songs on blue moves? Dont know it
@wonderwoman2997 Жыл бұрын
all of it@@mjsmcd
@billysollox8959 Жыл бұрын
Tonight, Crazy Water, Between seventeen and twenty, Chameleon, One Horse Town, The Wide Eyed & Laughing, Idol (v prophetic)
@Fuzcapp Жыл бұрын
@@billysollox8959 Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word???????? How'd you leave that one out?
@SolloxAndTheSpooners11 ай бұрын
@@Fuzcapp, dunno. Thanks for highlighting it. You're right :0)
@joesimon2018 Жыл бұрын
I had an interpretation of the lyrics which seemed obvious to me that it was about a young boy toy from the country who arrives in the big city and gets taken in by an old rich guy...and the allegory to Dorothy arriving at the Emerald City and being disillusioned with the wizard. It was a common story in the 60's and 70's
@ladyarthuria Жыл бұрын
In the thumbnail, why gus dudgeon like Paul Newman
@ViniciusFiocco11 жыл бұрын
although he did some great stuff during the 80' and 90's but yes, you are right. He was awesome till 1976 or so, then thigs went downhill.
@dagbakka9995 Жыл бұрын
He was best live early 80's though. And his voice was best at this time
@markstevens1729Ай бұрын
Yeah, he stopped writing with Bernie for some years… downhill indeed.
@jdu611 жыл бұрын
what song is at 11.30....
@kurtissjacobs5618 Жыл бұрын
As Rocket2133 said, it's Amoreena from the Tumbleweed Connection album. One of his best albums.
@apexxxx10 Жыл бұрын
Next time: 11:30
@itsALLartVideos11 жыл бұрын
I've always wondered if the highness of the singing is what made it so popular because so many GIRLS could sing along in their range easily. Don't get me wrong, guys loved this album too but girls are mostly who went nuts and bought things in those days and played it for their boyfriends and on the radio, etc.
@itsALLartVideos11 жыл бұрын
No, it was because Bernie was leaving the duo behind and wrote it as his "swansong" to Elton... puts some perspective on it, eh?
@JeffOnTheRoads12 жыл бұрын
responding to below, no way Elton would have challenged the labels at that time. Would you?
@MrDrewseph Жыл бұрын
Who sped up that live footage 😂
@Tickbryan11 жыл бұрын
So when did Bernie leave? He co wrote several Elton albums after yellow brick road.
@JadeSilverhill4 жыл бұрын
Tick Bryan he never left.
@fretbuzz59 Жыл бұрын
One of the most technically gifted rock musicians Britain's ever produced? No. Terrific writer and singer; average player.
@aaronjohnson34638 ай бұрын
Shows how little you actually know about piano
@fretbuzz598 ай бұрын
@@aaronjohnson3463 That response show how little *you* apparently know about piano. I studied piano as a kid before switching to guitar. But I still play well enough--which is nothing special--to play EJ parts.
@rick3747Ай бұрын
@@fretbuzz59 Sure Elton is no Peterson, Jarrett or Tatum but he is an exceptional songwriter and a darn good piano player too.
@fretbuzz5929 күн бұрын
@@rick3747 As I said: Terrific writer and singer; average player.
@aaronjohnson34638 ай бұрын
Great but certainly not captain fantastic level
@jdenino60228 ай бұрын
Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding is one of the greatest rock songs ever ❤
@pauldixon3953 Жыл бұрын
Pnm
@kailaniandi Жыл бұрын
Funny how the band getting fired leads to the worst music ever from Elton John. Almost like drugs and money are better than really good music
@jonwizard3989 Жыл бұрын
with "england" you mean THE BRITISH ISLES...THE UNITED KINGDOM...THE UK...BRITAIN ... SCOTLAND isn´t "england" neither is WALES nor IRELAND. So if you mean "england" you are referring to that dump south of SCOTLAND !
@daveinmauritius11 жыл бұрын
Has this guy ever had decent hair?
@007koko00711 жыл бұрын
nonsense
@jomainmalveaux7664 Жыл бұрын
I love you Elton ! So sad you became an Illuminati and sold your soul 😭😭😭
@noelbullard4676 Жыл бұрын
Nonsense
@stevek6518 Жыл бұрын
Couple of unknown songs on the album couldn't be played now because of woke-ism or whatever. Dirty Little Girl, Sweet Painted Ladies
@jacksons101020 күн бұрын
Bunk! Liberals are not about censorship - if anyone would get upset it’s going to be the so-called Christian conservatives. _All The Young Girls Love Alice_ certainly draws their ire.
@johnholmes912 Жыл бұрын
too much dead wood. it would have been better as a single album.
@Fuzcapp Жыл бұрын
Nah - too many idiots commenting on KZfaq. (The only filler on this album is Jamaica Jerk Off, which was only included out of deference to having gone to the West Indies to try to record an album in the middle of a coup. Other than that, Dear John Holmes, you must be deaf.)