Elton John albums (Music Guide): Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, Dont Shoot Me Im Only the Piano Player, Elton John and Tim Rices Aida, Duets, Blue Moves, The Union, Made in England, Caribou, Honky Château

Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 30. Chapters: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player, Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida, Duets, Blue Moves, The Union, Made in England, Caribou, Honky Château, Madman Across the Water, Rock of the Westies, Peachtree Road, A Single Man, Songs from the West Coast, Sleeping with the Past, Leather Jackets, Tumbleweed Connection, The Captain & the Kid, Too Low for Zero, 21 at 33, Ice on Fire, Empty Sky, The Fox, Reg Strikes Back, Jump Up!, Breaking Hearts, The One, The Big Picture, Victim of Love. Excerpt: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, released in 1973, is the seventh studio album by British singer-songwriter Elton John. It has come to be regarded as Elton John's best and most popular album, and is his best selling studio album with worldwide sales of at least 31 million copies. Recorded at the Château d'Hérouville, the album contains the Marilyn Monroe tribute, "Candle in the Wind", as well as three successful singles: "Bennie and the Jets", "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", and "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting". The album was ranked number 91 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, and placed at number 59 in Channel 4's 2009 list of 100 Greatest Albums. Under the working titles of Vodka and Tonics and Silent Movies, Talking Pictures, Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics in two and a half weeks, with John composing most of the music in 3 days while staying at the Pink Flamingo Hotel in Kingston, Jamaica. Production on the album was started in Jamaica in January 1973, though after difficulties with the sound system and the studio piano, coupled with disturbance due to the Joe Frazier and George Foreman boxing match taking place in Kingston, and violent political tension due to the poor economic situation, the band decided to move before any productive work was done. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was recorded in two weeks at the Château d'Hérouville in France, where John had previously recorded Honky Château and Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player. Only a version of "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" was recorded in Jamaica, but that recording was discarded and the final, released version of the song came from the sessions at the Château. According to the album's producer, Gus Dudgeon, the album wasn't planned as a two-record collection. In total, John and Taupin composed 22 tracks for the album, of which 18 (if one includes both "Funeral For A Friend" and "Love Lies Bleeding") were used, enough that it was released as a double album, Joh