![]() ![]() A double set recorded in two weeks at the Château d’Hérouville near Paris, it went on to sell more than 30 million copies and is still regarded as a Seventies classic. Released in 1973, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was Elton John’s seventh studio album. It might explain why his most famous album cover is an idealised illustration of a tall, handsome, glamorous man stepping into a world of fantasy. Good thing he was such an incredibly gifted singer-songwriter, really. Let’s face it, even when he first arrived on the music scene in 1969, the man formerly known as Reg Dwight was nobody’s idea of what a rock star should look like: short, gap-toothed, bespectacled and balding. ![]() I’m not sure which is worse, the scruffy snapshot on Rock of the Westies (1975,) in which he looks like he hasn’t slept for a week, or the bored pose of Songs from the West Coast (2001), slouching in a diner with an expression that says whoever thought this was a good idea is getting fired in the morning. While his music has been consistently accomplished, his cover artwork has varied enormously in quality, with the least interesting sleeves tending to feature awkward portrait photographs. Over a career stretching 51 years, there have been 33 studio albums, seven soundtracks, five live albums and 16 compilations to date. ![]()
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