Elton John- The Making of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Part 3

[@stevek6518]

Roy Rogers is such a beautiful sentimental song

[@iananderson3799]

It is so sad really, and nothing to do with cowboys and tv westerns.

[@kittymetal186]

You're right, that song is special to me. It reminds me of my late dad, escaping into westerns while he did a regular job rather than pursue his dream to be a jazz drummer. Luckily, when he retired, he did work as a jazz drummer 😭🤠🥁❤

[@touchingthecloth]

RIP Gus..

[@jdenino6022]

I love that Wembley concert from 1977. ❤

[@rvwach]

Man, would I love to play around with that mixing board with those songs from Goodbye Yellow Brick Road queued up.

[@NicholasAndre1]

A few of the original multitracks have leaked if you hunt online. Goodbye Yellowbrick Road, Candle in the wind I downloaded. I loaded it up in Logic and tried my hand at mixing. The recording on those albums is absolutely amazing; very little work required to mix.

[@mrscottify]

@@NicholasAndre1that’s because it was recorded “live” other than the backing vocals. It’s rarely done that way these days, all parts are recorded separate. These guys were locked in. They just went in the room and banged out the thing lol.

[@BIGBROWS87]

11:32 brilliant... really shows his incredible vocals

[@derekcavin7665]

Great guitar riff.

[@imannonymous7707]

opurtunity awaits me like a rat in the drain great lyricist

[@mysterymac38]

9:02 LOL he said "beer in the rear"!! *guffaw*

[@SluffAdlin]

+mysterymac38 technically Bernie Taupin said it. Elton just quoted him.

[@Fuzcapp]

Apart from Saturday Night's Alright ... GBYBR album is typical Bernie Americana. Which is something of a concept around the album. Bernie was kind of obsessed with Americana which comes through on Tumbleweed Connection and songs like Salvation, Rocket Man, Slave, Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters, Susie Drama etc on Honky Chateau.

[@brandonhaygood5286]

Is that a bad thing?

[@Fuzcapp]

@@brandonhaygood5286 No not at all. It's just interesting that a young boy from Lincolnshire had such a fetish for Americana. Ad it also explains why Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting didn't do so well in the USA.

[@Fuzcapp]

Funny how Davey talks about playing 'Saturday' before GBYBR was out. I remember buying Don't Shoot Me and being disappointed that Saturday Night wasn't on it. Little did I know, I just had to wait a couple of months (and pay $18.99 for the double album rather than $9.99 for a single album. 🙂 Oh! Those were the days.)

[@davidfifer4729]

$9.99? New, single albums were $4.96 where I lived (Sacramento, California) in 1974. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, I'm sure, was less than $10.00.

[@Fuzcapp]

@@davidfifer4729 Not in Australia where everything had to be imported from Europe or the USA. Also, our dollar was probably weaker than the U.S. dollar.

[@jasoncarpp7742]

Awesome story!

[@bedsareuseful]

Thank you. Where's part 2 please?

[@brandonhaygood5286]

How could you not hear Bennie and the jets as a single?

[@Fuzcapp]

TBH - I didn't really like it until recently. It's all a matter of taste.

[@Arkipelago2]

0:19

[@jamesparker1063]

I was inspired to write a song about my daughters gambling addiction:" Jenny and Her Bets".....

[@PUMASAFTERMIDNIGHT]

wow

[@lisabenneett4735]

he was introduced by Linda Lovelace. Is anyone else old enough to remember her? She was a famous porn star at the time, well-known for a certain talent..

[@DerekBayRoberts1]

Thats what the Beatles did with the "Sgt. Pepper" opening theme. they did the same thing with "Bennie & The Jets".

[@SluffAdlin]

+DerekBayRoberts1 I wouldn't mind hearing an unaltered "flat" cut of Bennie & the Jets",