Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

When in 1973 Elton John presented his first double album, being produced in France, as the result of an overboarding phase of creativity, it looked as if the survival of British pop-hearts was secured after the Beatles and Abbey-Road. Everything turned out well!
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road dashed right to the top of the charts, and Elton became the most popular singing songwriter in Englandís seventies. Already the early recordings contained the stuff dreams are made of, and which still suits well the pop icon of today. The comfortable pulsing piano accords in the ballads, the driving riffs of the rock-íní-roll-titles, the discovery and transposition of orchestral arrangements, and a sensitive sound mixing of the harmonically centred synthesizer are just some of the ingredients of Eltonís abundant world of expression which wrote record history. Besides came the first step towards an independent English rock-íní-roll through Saturday NightísÖ, strange-exotic Latin-groove in the Jamaica Jerk-Off, and of course Candle in the Wind, the everlasting obituary to female high society.