4x CD (40th Anniversary super deluxe edition)

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Album by Elton John

Released 5 October 1973

pop rock rock glam rock

Tracklist

CD 1: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
1
Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding
11:07
4.1 ★
2
Candle in the Wind
3:48
3.7 ★
3
Bennie and the Jets
5:22
3.8 ★
4
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
3:12
3.9 ★
5
This Song Has No Title
2:23
3.3 ★
6
Grey Seal
4:00
3.4 ★
7
Jamaica Jerk-Off
3:38
3.2 ★
8
I’ve Seen That Movie Too
5:57
3.3 ★
9
Sweet Painted Lady
3:54
3.6 ★
10
The Ballad of Danny Bailey (1909-34)
4:23
3.6 ★
11
Dirty Little Girl
5:00
3.9 ★
12
All the Girls Love Alice
5:08
4.1 ★
13
Your Sister Can’t Twist (but She Can Rock ’n Roll)
2:41
3.7 ★
14
Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting
4:55
4.1 ★
15
Roy Rogers
4:07
4.0 ★
16
Social Disease
3:42
3.5 ★
17
Harmony
2:47
3.7 ★
CD 2: Revisited & Beyond
1
Candle in the Wind
Ed Sheeran
3:21
4.0 ★
2
Bennie and the Jets
Miguel feat. Wale
5:10
5.0 ★
3
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Hunter Hayes
3:08
5.0 ★
4
Grey Seal
The Band Perry
3:38
4.0 ★
5
Sweet Painted Lady
John Grant
3:56
3.0 ★
6
All the Girls Love Alice
Emeli Sandé
3:34
4.0 ★
7
Your Sister Can’t Twist (but She Can Rock ’n Roll)
Imelda May
2:49
4.0 ★
8
Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting
Fall Out Boy
3:44
5.0 ★
9
Harmony
Zac Brown Band
2:58
4.0 ★
10
Grey Seal (piano demo)
3:21
11
Grey Seal (version 1970)
3:36
3.4 ★
12
Jack Rabbit
1:53
4.0 ★
13
Whenever You’re Ready (We’ll Go Steady Again)
2:57
4.0 ★
14
Screw You (Young Man’s Blues)
4:44
3.0 ★
15
Candle in the Wind (acoustic mix)
3:53
16
Step Into Christmas
4:32
3.0 ★
17
Ho! Ho! Ho! (Who’d Be a Turkey at Christmas)
4:06
18
Philadelphia Freedom
5:38
19
Pinball Wizard
5:17
4.0 ★
CD 3: Live at Hammersmith Odeon 1973, Part 1
1
Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding
11:53
2
Candle in the Wind
4:11
5.0 ★
3
Hercules
9:16
4
Rocket Man
5:01
5.0 ★
5
Bennie and the Jets
6:27
6
Daniel
4:17
4.0 ★
7
This Song Has No Title
2:57
8
Honky Cat
7:16
4.0 ★
CD 4: Live at Hammersmith Odeon 1973, Part 2
1
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
3:22
2
The Ballad of Danny Bailey (1909–34)
6:14
3
Elderberry Wine
6:23
4
Rudolph the Red‐Nosed Reindeer
1:15
5
I’ve Seen That Movie Too
5:45
6
All the Girls Love Alice
7:33
7
Crocodile Rock
6:34
8
Your Song
4:29
9
Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting
8:24

Recent reviews

Teifi 7 Apr 2026

★★★★♥︎

Songs were decent, not my go to style of music but I can fully understand how someone might love this album, still good just not my cup of tea

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Release credits

Al Gare
bass guitar [7]
Ann Marie Calhoun
mandolin [1], viola [3, 6], violin [1, 3-4, 6]
Ben Robinson
drums (drum set) [2]
Bill Cinque
bass guitar [3-4]
Brandon Conway
assistant [9]
Chris Bolster
recording [7]
Chris Fryar
drums (drum set) [9]
Chris Loco
keyboard [6], producer [6], programming [6], recording [6]
Clay Cook
Hammond organ [9], background vocals [9], electric guitar [9], mellotron [9], piano [9], producer [9]
Coy Bowles
acoustic guitar [9]
Darrel Higham
electric guitar [7]
Davey Johnstone
acoustic guitar [1.3, 1.8-9, 1.15, 1.17, 2.12], background vocals [1.1-2, 1.4, 1.10, 1.13, 1.17, 2.19], banjo [16], electric guitar [1.1-4, 1.6-8, 1.10-14, 1.16, 2.12], guitar [4.7-8, 3.2, 3.4, 3.6, 3.8, 2.19], mandolin [12], slide guitar [1.13, 2.12-13], steel guitar [15]
David Hentschel
engineer [1-17], synthesizer [1, 12]
David Priseman
acoustic guitar [7], trumpet [7]
Dee Murray
background vocals [1.1-2, 1.4, 1.10, 1.13, 1.17, 2.19], bass [19], bass guitar [1.1-4, 1.6-17, 3.2, 3.4, 3.6, 3.8, 4.7-8, 2.12-13, 2.19]
Del Newman
orchestrator [4, 8-10, 15, 17]
Ed Sheeran
acoustic guitar [1], bass guitar [1], cajón [1], lead vocals [1], producer [1], shakers [1]
Elton John
electric piano [5-6, 11], farfisa [5, 13], lead vocals [1.1-17, 2.11-14, 2.16, 2.19], mellotron [5-6, 11], organ [3, 7], piano [3.2, 3.4, 3.6, 3.8, 4.7-8, 1.1-6, 1.8-10, 1.12-17, 2.13, 2.16, 2.19], vocal [4.7-8, 3.2, 3.4, 3.6, 3.8, 2.19]
Gene Page
orchestrator [19]
Geoff Zanelli
additional [6], strings [3, 6]
Graham Sharp
banjo [4]
Gus Dudgeon
producer [1.1-17, 2.16, 2.19]
Hunter Hayes
Wurlitzer electric piano [3], guitar [3], keyboard [3], percussion [3], producer [3]
Jason Bonham
drums (drum set) [2]
Jeff Alan Ross
Wurlitzer electric piano [4], farfisa [4], mellotron [5], synthesizer [5]
Jeff Gartenbaum
background vocals [2], recording [2]
Jeff Griffin
producer [4.7-8, 3.2, 3.4, 3.6, 3.8]
Jim Keltner
drums (drum set) [3]
Jimmy De Martini
background vocals [9], violin [9]
John Driskell Hopkins
background vocals [9], bass guitar [9]
Kiki Dee
background vocals [12]
Leroy Gomez
saxophone [16]
Matt Mangano
engineer [9], mix [9], producer [9]
Miguel
background vocals [2], lead vocals [2], producer [2], vocal [2]
Nathaniel Kunkel
background vocals [2], mix [1-8], recording [1-5]
Nigel Olsson
background vocals [1.1-2, 1.4, 1.10, 1.13, 1.17, 2.19], congas [6], drums (drum set) [2.12-13, 2.19, 4.7-8, 1.2-4, 1.6-7, 1.9-17, 3.2, 3.4, 3.6, 3.8], membranophone [1.1, 1.8, 2.19], tambourine [9]
Patrick Stump
producer [8]
Peter Asher
additional [1], background vocals [3], bass guitar [5], guitar [2, 5], mix [6], percussion [1, 3, 5], producer [1-5, 7-8]
Prince Rhino
other vocals [7]
Ray Cooper
congas [19], percussion [4.7-8, 2.19, 3.2, 3.4, 3.6, 3.8], tambourine [1.12, 2.19]
Ron Nevison
engineer [19]
Ryeland Allison
drums (drum set) [4]
Sam Ellis
background vocals [3]
Seth Morton
lead vocals [4]
Stephen Hilton
additional [2, 5], drum machine [2, 5], keyboard [2], percussion [4], programming [2, 5], recording [5], synthesizer [2, 5]
Steve Aho
percussion [5]
Steve Rushton
drums (drum set) [7]
Thomas "Tom" Burns
lead vocals [2]
Tim Marchiafava
banjo [4]
Tyler Walker
assistant [9]
Victoria Asher
background vocals [2-3, 5]
Waddy Wachtel
electric guitar [4], guitar [2]
Wale
vocal [2]
Wesley Seidman
recording [8]
Zac Brown
producer [9]