Chart Position: 2
- #390 on Rolling Stone magazines list of 500 greatest songs
- Written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin
- Keyboards: Elton John
- Guitar: Davey Johnstone
- Backing vocals: Davey Johnstone, Dee Murray, Nigel Olsson
- Produced by Gus Dudgeon
- Recorded at Chateau d’Herouville France
- The ‘yellow brick road’ is from L. Frank Baum’s fantasy story and 1939 film The Wizard of Oz
- Elton John often wore ultra-high platform shoes in concerts in the early seventies, as depicted on the cover artwork for the 1973 LP Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
- Later recorded by Queens of the Stone Age (2018)
The Year in Music 1963 - 1988 