"I'd love to tell you some horror stories, but there aren't any." Elton John is clear in his retrospective of his Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973): the classic was in a curse and a sigh on the tape. Well, some recordings from Jamaica had been deleted, but that was the only thing. John and lyricist Bernie Taupin wrote easily, the collaboration with producer Gus Dudgeon was excellent and his band
… played like a well-oiled machine. The seventeen songs were recorded and mixed in seventeen days in his favorite studio in Paris. The hard work was good for hits such as the title track, Bennie And The Jets and Candle In The Wind, which two decades later would grow into a tribute to the accidental Princess Diana. Lovers of this evergreen can indulge themselves with this album, but should also be open to other sides of John. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is nice and diverse and also contains typical seventies glam rock including lush synthesizers. A colorful procession of songs that does justice to John's most artistic and extravagant period. (JE)more
