Featuring hundreds of vivid photographs that celebrate one of music´s most visually arresting performers, Elton John All the Songs is the authoritative guide to one of rock´n´roll´s greatest stars. Starting with the artist´s early days working as a studio musician in London, and featuring interviews with actors, musicians, collaborators, and confidantes, Elton John All the Songs offers readers the most detailed portrait of the artist and his creative process that has ever been produced. Newer work like The Lockdown Sessions, which released in 2021, is also featured alongside Billboard stats, tour dates, producing and mixing credits, and other insider details that will keep fans turning pages. Spanning more than fifty-years of work from Elton and his longtime collaborator, Bernie Taupin, this book details the creative processes that resulted in seminal albums like Goodbye Yellowbrick Road, Madman Across the Water, and Tumbleweed Connection, as well as Academy Award wins for 1995´s Lion King and 2020´s Rocketman. The arrival of Rocketman, the movie that tells the story of how a shy, short-sighted young fellow called Reginald Dwight became one of the most successful musicians of all time, will bring his. Organized chronologically and covering every album and song that Sir Elton Hercules John has ever released, Elton John All the Songs draws upon years of research to tell the behind-the-scenes stories of how each song was written, composed, and recorded, down to the instruments used and the people who played them. Formats: CD, cassette, digital download, LP, streamingThis first-of-its-kind catalog of Elton John’s decades-long career tells the story of one of rock´s all-time greatest artists, album-by-album and track-by-track. Elton conjured the musical illustration to Bernie’s radiant lyric for Rocket Man in ten minutes flat, and found the precise milieu for the poignant new song Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters’.^ Album was not released and did not chart in the United States until 1975."-" denotes items which were not released in that country or failed to chart. Formats: LP, cassette, 8-Track, Reel TapeĬaptain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy.John is also Billboard 's greatest male solo artist on the Hot 100 of all time (third overall, behind the Beatles and Madonna). 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and 7 No. In 2019, Billboard ranked him as the greatest solo artist of all time (third overall behind the Beatles and the Rolling Stones). And I'm gonna be high as a kite by then I miss the Earth so much, I miss my wife It's lonely out in space On such a timeless. Also according to RIAA, he has sold 35 million singles in the US. Verse 1 She packed my bags last night, pre-flight Zero hour, 9 a.m. According to RIAA, he has sold 79 million albums in the United States, making him the 6th-best-selling male solo artist in history. John's biggest selling studio album is Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, which has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide and ranks among the best-selling albums worldwide. Throughout his career, John has sold over 300 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artist of all time. In 2017, John released the greatest hits album Diamonds, spanning his hits from 1970 to 2016. John has continued to record new music since then, including the albums Songs from the West Coast (2001), The Diving Board (2013), Wonderful Crazy Night (2016), and The Lockdown Sessions (2021). John continued his success in the 1980s and 1990s, having several hit albums including 21 at 33 (1980), Too Low for Zero (1983), Sleeping with the Past (1989), The One (1992), Made in England (1995), and The Big Picture (1997). John's commercial success was at its peak in the 1970s, when he released a streak of chart-topping albums in the US and UK, including Honky Château (1972), Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player (1973), Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973), Caribou (1974), Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975), and Rock of the Westies (1975). In 1970, John released his self-titled second album Elton John, which featured his first hit single, " Your Song". In 1969, John's debut album, Empty Sky, was released. The albums discography of British musician and singer-songwriter Elton John consists of 31 studio albums, 5 live albums, 10 soundtrack albums, 16 compilation albums, 4 extended plays, 3 tribute albums, 4 collaboration albums, and 2 holiday albums.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |