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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

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LIST YEAR

1973

Annual listening list: initial release cycle, with recent carryovers; not an original-release-date field. Release chronology remains partly unverified.

Genre

PopRock

Theme

Breakup songsTravel and road songs

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RELEASE DATE & LIST YEAR

Release: 1973

Release: 1973Source checked

Original Goodbye Yellow Brick Road recording documented in 1973. Artist discography dates and original track list were checked together; later bonus tracks, remixes, live albums and compilations are excluded.

The large badge identifies this listening list, not a newly issued recording. Later reissues and renewed chart popularity do not replace an original release date. How years are assigned.

Elton John: official discography
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: original album release 1973.

Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Matching original album track; bonus tracks and other performers on soundtracks are not used for this recording.

BEHIND THE SONG

Inspiration and background

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This note came with the supplied collection and has not been independently verified.

Title track from John's double album of the same name References "The Wizard of Oz"

Evidence scope: Source-provided note, not an established account of the songwriter's intent

Sources for this information

Owner-supplied 1973.html, song-list position 74
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Other appearances and versions

catalog version unspecified

Original release date and exact pressing/version are not independently established.

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Sources and scope

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Editorial artist-repertoire classification

Owner-supplied 1973.html
Imported annual selection. Title, artist and year have not all been independently corroborated; retained source annotations are archived, not verified song histories.

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