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Elton John: Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy

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Label: DJM Records
Released: 1975.05.19
Time:
 46:54
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Gus Dudgeon
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Media type: CD
Web address: www.eltonjohn.com
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Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (E.John/B.Taupin) - 5:46
[2] Tower of Babel (E.John/B.Taupin) - 4:28
[3] Bitter Fingers (E.John/B.Taupin) - 4:35
[4] Tell Me When the Whistle Blows (E.John/B.Taupin) - 4:20
[5] Someone Saved My Life Tonight (E.John/B.Taupin) - 6:45
[6] (Gotta Get a) Meal Ticket (E.John/B.Taupin) - 4:01
[7] Better Off Dead (E.John/B.Taupin) - 2:37
[8] Writing (E.John/B.Taupin) - 3:40
[9] We All Fall in Love Sometimes (E.John/B.Taupin) - 4:15
[10] Curtains (E.John/B.Taupin) - 6:15
[11] Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (J.Lennon/P.McCartney) - 6:18
[12] One Day at a Time" (Lennon) – 3:49
[13] Philadelphia Freedom (E.John/B.Taupin) - 5:23

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Elton John - Acoustic & Electric Pianos, Clavinet, Mellotron, Arp String Ensemble Synthesizer, Harpsichord
Davey Johnstone - Acoustic, Electric & Leslie Guitars, Mandolin, Piano on [8], Backing Vocals
Dee Murray - Bass, Backing Vocals
Nigel Olsson - Drums, Backing Vocals
Ray Cooper - Shaker, Congas, Gong, Jawbone, Tambourine, Bells, Bell Tree, Cymbals, Triangle, Bongos

David Hentschel - ARP synthesizer on tracks 9 and 10
Gene Page - Orchestral arrangement on track 4

Gus Dudgeon - Producer, Remixing
Jeff Guercio - Engineer
Mark Guercio - Assistant Engineer
Phil Dunne - Remixing
Tony Cousins - Remastering
Ricky Graham - Digital Transfers
Gene Page - Orchestral Arrangements
David Larkham - Art Direction
Bernie Taupin - Art Direction
David Larkham - Graphic Conception
Bernie Taupin - Graphic Conception
Alan Aldridge - Cover Design
David Larkham - Package Design
Alan Aldridge - Illustration
John Tobler - Liner Notes
Paul Gambaccini - Liner Notes (Deluxe Edition)

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Elton John has always liked having it both ways. He's flamboyant and vain, yet empathetic and sincere. He sits at his piano playing sentimental melodies, but the words come not from inside his soul but from friend Bernie Taupin. For Captain Fantastic, he and Taupin wrote a concept album which sketches their career together. "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" is easily the strongest song outside of the concept. The addition of several songs "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" featuring John Lennon, "Philadelphia Freedom," and "One Day at a Time" blow the concept but up the entertainment value considerably.

Rob O'Connor - Amazon.com



Sitting atop the charts in 1975, Elton John and Bernie Taupin recalled their rise to power in Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, their first explicitly conceptual effort since Tumbleweed Connection. It's no coincidence that it's their best album since then, showcasing each at the peak of his power, as John crafts supple, elastic, versatile pop and Taupin's inscrutable wordplay is evocative, even moving. What's best about the record is that it works best of a piece - although it entered the charts at number one, this only had one huge hit in "Someone Saved My Life Tonight," which sounds even better here, since it tidily fits into the musical and lyrical themes. And although the musical skill on display here is dazzling, as it bounces between country and hard rock within the same song, this is certainly a grower. The album needs time to reveal its treasures, but once it does, it rivals Tumbleweed in terms of sheer consistency and eclipses it in scope, capturing John and Taupin at a pinnacle. They collapsed in hubris and excess not long afterward - Rock of the Westies, which followed just months later is as scattered as this is focused - but this remains a testament to the strengths of their creative partnership.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - All Music Guide



Elton John war immer schon sehr ambivalent. Er ist extravagant und eitel und doch einfühlsam und gefestigt. An seinem Piano sitzend, spielt er die sentimentalsten Melodien, die Worte jedoch kommen nicht aus seinem Innersten, sondern von seinem Freund, dem Texter Bernie Taupin. Captain Fantastic ist ein Konzeptalbum von John und Taupin über ihre gemeinsame Karriere. "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" ist die stärkste Nummer außerhalb des Konzepts. Die Hereinnahme solcher Songs wie "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", auf dem John Lennon mitsingt, "Philadelphia Freedom" und "One Day at a Time" sprengen gänzlich den Rahmen des Konzeptes, ihr Unterhaltungswert jedoch ist beträchtlich.

Rob O'Connor - Amazon.de



"Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy" ist Elton Johns reifste Leistung. Mit Texter Bernie Taupin spielt der Exzentriker souverän seine Songwriter-Trümpfe aus. Unter den drei Bonus-Tracks gibt's auch die psychedelische Beatles-Nummer "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" - dynamischer, detailreicher Klang.

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Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy is the ninth studio album by the English singer/musician Elton John, released in 1975. It debuted at number 1 on the US Billboard 200, the first album ever to do so, and stayed top for seven weeks.

It was certified gold in May 1975 and was certified platinum and 3x platinum in March 1993 by the RIAA. In Canada, it also debuted at number 1 on the RPM national Top Albums chart and only broke a run of what would have been fifteen consecutive weeks at the top by falling one position to number 2 in the ninth week (31 May–6 September). On the UK Albums Chart, it peaked at number 2. In 2003, the album was ranked number 158 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. This was the last album until Too Low for Zero that Elton John and his classic band would play together.

Written, according to lyricist Bernie Taupin, in chronological order, Captain Fantastic is a concept album that gives an autobiographical glimpse at the struggles John (Captain Fantastic) and Taupin (the Brown Dirt Cowboy) had in the early years of their musical careers in London (from 1967 to 1969). The lyrics and accompanying photo booklet are infused with a specific sense of place and time that would otherwise be rare in John's music. John composed the music on a cruise ship voyage to the US

"Someone Saved My Life Tonight", the only single released from the album (and a number 4 hit on the US Pop Singles chart), is a semi-autobiographical story about John's disastrous engagement to Linda Woodrow, and his related 1969 suicide attempt. The "Someone" refers to Long John Baldry, who convinced him to break off the engagement rather than ruin his music career for an unhappy marriage. It was viewed by Rolling Stone writer Jon Landau as the best track on the album: "As long as Elton John can bring forth one performance per album on the order of 'Someone Saved My Life Tonight', the chance remains that he will become something more than the great entertainer he already is and go on to make a lasting contribution to rock."

In a 2006 interview with Cameron Crowe, John said, "I've always thought that Captain Fantastic was probably my finest album because it wasn't commercial in any way. We did have songs such as 'Someone Saved My Life Tonight,' which is one of the best songs that Bernie and I have ever written together, but whether a song like that could be a single these days, since it's [more than] six minutes long, is questionable. Captain Fantastic was written from start to finish in running order, as a kind of story about coming to terms with failure—or trying desperately not to be one. We lived that story."

John, Taupin and the band laboured harder and longer on the album than perhaps any previous record they'd ever done to that point. As opposed to the rather quick, almost factory-like process of writing and recording an album in a matter of a few days or at most a couple of weeks (as with "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"), the team spent the better part of a month off the road at Caribou Ranch Studios working on the recordings. Producer Gus Dudgeon was apparently also very satisfied with the results. The album's producer was quoted in Elizabeth Rosenthal's "His Song", an exhaustive detailed accounting of nearly all John's recorded work, as saying he thought "Captain Fantastic" was the best the band and Elton had ever played, lauded their vocal work, and soundly praised Elton and Bernie's songwriting. "There's not one song on it that's less than incredible," Dudgeon said.

The 2006 album The Captain & the Kid is the sequel, and continues the autobiography where Captain Fantastic leaves off.

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