Elton John, Ben & Jerry's Walk Down "Yellow Brickle Road"

To celebrate the first time Elton John has ever played the state of Vermont, native ice cream kings Ben & Jerry have concocted a new flavor dedicated to John called "Goodbye Yellow Brickle Road," with all proceeds benefitting the Elton John AIDS Foundation. The ice cream is described as "an outrageous symphony of decadent chocolate ice cream, peanut butter cookie dough, butter brickle and white chocolate chunks." We assumed "brickle" was just a made-up word to make a punny tie between the ice cream and John's hit "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road," but butter brickle is actually the stuff that Heath Bars are made of. "Goodbye Yellow Brickle Road" will be saying goodbye sooner rather than later, however, as the limited edition flavor will only be available in B&J's Vermont Scoop Shops from July 18-25. Sir Elton joins Phish, Jerry Garcia and Dave Matthews as musicians who have had a flavor dedicated to them.

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Song Stories

“Help Me”

Joni Mitchell | 1974

Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded this song for her album Court and Spark, but she had to switch from her regular band to make the song sound exactly the way she wanted. "I had attempted to play my music with rock & roll players," she told Rolling Stone. "They’d laugh, 'Awww, isn't that cute? She's trying to teach us how to play.'" Mitchell switched to a jazz band, Tom Scott’s L.A. Express, and scored the biggest hit of her career in the process.

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