Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

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Written by: John, Bernie Taupin
Produced by: Gus Dudgeon
Released: Sept. '73 on MCA
Charts: 17 weeks
Top spot: No. 2

Inspired by the Rolling Stones' Goats Head Soup, John and his lyricist Taupin went to Kingston, Jamaica, to record John's sixth album. "The studio was surrounded by barbed wire," said Taupin, "and there were guys with machine guns." Too scared to leave their hotel, the duo banged out twenty-one songs in three days, among them "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road."

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