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- “Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters” from 'Honky Chateau' (1972) “Elton didn’t really make demos back in the early days. Frequently he would simply play us a new song he’d just written, and a lot of times Dee, Nigel and I would be right there while he wrote.
- “Crocodile Rock” from 'Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player' (1973) “As Elton played it for us, it was obvious that it was a tongue-in-cheek send-up of rock and roll.
- “Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding” from 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' (1973) “It’s been a staple in our set for a long time. Of course, the song starts with that symphonic synthesizer section that David Hentschel did such a brilliant job on.
- “All the Young Girls Love Alice” from 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' (1973) “It opens with that really cool guitar volume swell. That’s through a Uni-Vibe, which I’ve used for various sounds since way back.
Oct 3, 2013 · Davey Johnstone has been Elton’s guitarist since the recording of Madman Across The Water, in 1971.Two years and two albums later, Davey was back in the studio with Elton, bassist Dee Murray and drummer Nigel Olsson, recording Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
Sep 7, 2018 · Guitarist Davey Johnstone Looks Back on His Five-Decade Odyssey With Elton John. The guitarist reveals how Elton wrote some of his most enduring songs, passionately defends the singer's less ...
- Writing and Recording Sessions: ‘There Were Guys with Machine Guns’
- ‘It Never Ceases to Amaze Me How Quickly I Can Write’
- Singles: ‘Saturday Night’S Alright For Fighting’
- ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’
- ‘Candle in The Wind’
- ‘Bennie and The Jets’
- Album Release and Reception: ‘A Musical in Its Own Right’
- ‘At The Moment I’m Having A Really Good Time’
ButGoodbye Yellow Brick Road almost had another sound altogether. As Elton later remembered, he had entertained the idea of a wildly different working environment. “I said, ‘The Rolling Stones have just done Goats Head Soupin Jamaica, let’s go there,’” he noted. And they did, starting production on the new project in Kingston, where they arrived in...
“Lyrics are always first,” Elton told Circus magazine just after Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’s release. “If I don’t have the lyrics I don’t write any songs. If Taupin is barren, that’s that. We haven’t written anything now, like for eight or nine months. We only write when it’s time to do an album. I don’t write on the road. “But it never ceases to a...
The perfected “Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting” preceded the album as a summer 1973 single. Its pugnacious, high-testosterone feel matched a lyric based on Taupin’s true experiences, from his days of under-age drinking at the Aston Arms, in the Lincolnshire town where his secondary school was situated, Market Rasen. Davey Johnstone’s authorit...
Just after Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was unleashed, the title track became its second single, with Taupin calling on different aspects of his childhood in the country, wrapped in Wizard Of Oz imagery. This classic Elton ballad became, and remains, another of his countless standards, topping the chart in Canada and on America’s Cashbox countdown; on...
When it was time for a third single from the set, DJM in the UK opted for the John-Taupin composition that mourned Marilyn Monroe. With considerable prescience, the song observed the starmaking machine that exploited her and would later almost consume Elton himself. “Candle In The Wind” surprisingly stalled at No.11, but has been recurrent ever sin...
In America, however, MCA opted for “Bennie And The Jets,” despite Elton’s vehement objections. “It’s the strangest track on the whole album,” he told Circus. “It’s a send-up of the glitter rockthing, and I sound like Frankie Valli of the Four Seasons.” But after early AM radio support from CKLW in Windsor, Ontario, the track spread across North Ame...
As an album, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was a trove of varied delights, also including the majestic, slow-building opener “Funeral For A Friend”/“Love Lies Bleeding,” the gentle balladeering of “Sweet Painted Lady” and “Harmony,” the reggaefied “Jamaica Jerk-Off” and spirited upbeat pieces like “Grey Seal” and “All The Girls Love Alice.” Taupin’s Am...
For its 40th anniversary, in 2014, the deluxe Goodbye Yellow Brick Roadreissue included nine covers of songs from the album, newly recorded by modern-day stars. Among them were Ed Sheeran’s reading of “Candle In The Wind,” Zac Brown Band’s “Harmony,” Emeli Sandé’s “All The Girls Love Alice” and a version of “Your Sister Can’t Twist (But She Can Roc...
Apr 4, 2011 · Having just played two knockout (and yes, packed) dates at the Garden, Johnstone was in town with Sir Elton and the rest of the band (which also includes drummer Nigel Olsson, who, along with Johnstone and the late bassist Dee Murray, comprised the famed, original Elton John four-piece), for an appearance on Saturday Night Live.
On October 1, 2019, Johnstone performed his 3,000 th show with John at the first of two Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour stops in Saskatchewan. In 2020, the tour was postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Johnstone recorded his new solo album, Deeper Than My Roots, utilizing the incredible talents of his children, plus a few close friends.
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vocals. Years active. 1968–present. Labels. Vertigo. Rocket. Artful Balance Records. David William Logan Johnstone (born 6 May 1951) is a Scottish rock guitarist and vocalist, best known for his long-time collaboration with Elton John as a member of the Elton John Band. [2]
