Highlights
-A comprehensive guide to all thirty-one Elton John studio albums (including the recently released “lost” album, Regimental Sgt. Zippo), all ten soundtrack albums (including the unreleased Lestat album), and all three compilation albums, encompassing over 500 songs.
-The first guide to Elton John’s music to delve into the musical theory of how his unique song architectures and chord choices work, and why they affect us the way they do.
-The first survey of Elton’s work to take advantage of the publication of both Elton John’s Me and Bernie Taupin’s Scattershot, which shed light onto some of the most long-debated tracks from their last half century of joint output.
In 1969, Elton John and Bernie Taupin gave the world Empty Sky, a heady mix of rock, folk, rhythm and blues, jazz, psychedelia, and classicism that announced the arrival of one of the most potent creative teams in the history of popular music. In the fifty-five years since that release, Elton’s astounding output of thirty-one studio albums, nine soundtrack albums (ten if you count the unreleased Lestat!), and three collaboration albums has enchanted new generations, as grandparents who grew up with “Your Song” and “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” on their turntables have shared their love of Elton with parents who played “Sacrifice” and “The One” on their CD players who in turn are sharing it with their children who know The Lion King soundtrack by heart and dance to “Cold Cold Heart” in their bedrooms through Spotify playlists and YouTube remixes.
Elton John: Album by Album takes you on a guided journey through those forty-four albums that have engaged three full generations of music lovers, exploring the history behind the production of each, uncovering the hidden stories and meanings of each track, and delving into the musical nuts and bolts of Elton John’s unique gift for conveying the meaning of Bernie Taupin’s lyrics through his unrivalled and almost otherworldly sense of tonal architecture.
Whether you have been spinning Elton records since the days of “Lady Samantha”, or found your way to his work in the post-Rocketman revival of appreciation for his legendary career, Elton John: Album by Album has what you need to navigate your way through the vast richness of his recorded catalogue, allowing you to answer such questions as “How did Ray Cooper make a gong sound like a spaceship?”, “Why is “Ego” in Lokrian mode anyway?” and “Just what is the Pilot, and why would anybody want to be taken there?”
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