what year did bennie and the jets come out
in 1973 4 February 1974 1974 1973
title: Bennie and the Jets text: Bennie and the Jets "Bennie and the Jets" (also titled as "Benny & the Jets") is a song composed by Elton John and Bernie Taupin. The song first appeared on the "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" album in 1973. "Bennie and the Jets" has been one of John's most popular songs and was performed during John's appearance at Live Aid. The track is spelled "Benny" on the sleeve of the single and in the track listing of the album, but "Bennie" on the album vinyl disc label. "Bennie and the Jets" was featured on side one of the "Goodbye Yellow Brick title: Bennie and the Jets text: Road" album, and Elton John was set against releasing it as a single, believing it would fail. CKLW in Windsor, Ontario, began heavy airplay of the song and it became the #1 song in the Detroit market. This attention caused other American and Canadian Top 40 stations to add it to their playlists as well and as a result, the song peaked at #1 on the US singles chart in 1974. In the US, it was certified Gold on 8 April 1974 and Platinum on 13 September 1995 by the RIAA, and had sold 2.8 million copies by August 1976. title: Greatest Hits (Elton John album) text: in the United States, and is his best-selling album to date, being his first to have received an RIAA diamond certification for US sales of more than 10 million copies – as of April 2016 the album has been certified for 17 million units in the US. It remains John's best-selling album and one of the best-selling albums of all time, with 24 million copies sold worldwide. The single "Bennie and the Jets", which had topped the charts in both the US and Canada but which had not been released a single in the United Kingdom at that point, appeared title: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road text: Greg Penny. "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" has come to be regarded as John's best and most popular album, and is his best-selling studio album. Three singles were released in the US: "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", "Bennie and the Jets" and "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting". In the US it was certified gold in October 1973, 5× platinum in March 1993, and eventually 8× platinum in February 2014 by the RIAA. The album was ranked No. 91 on "Rolling Stone" magazine's 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. It was also placed at No. 59 in Channel 4's title: Elton John's Greatest Hits Volume II text: world, both released in 1977. The British version, released on DJM Records, included "Bennie and the Jets", a song that had appeared on the 1973 album "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" but had only recently been released as a single (1976) in Elton John's home country. In North America, where the album was released by MCA Records, this song had already appeared on the first volume of "Greatest Hits". It was replaced with "Levon", an even older song (from 1971's "Madman Across the Water" album) that had not yet been collected. The album also contained two songs that would later be