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Title: Elton's Sgt. Pepper
Review: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was the 2nd album I ever bought, and still in my all time top five. It's taken about 30 years, but I finally realized that it was intentionally modeled after the Beatles classic Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Consider:Both albums start with a medley of two inseparable tracks. (Funeral For a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding vs Sgt Pepper / With A Little Help from My Friends).Both contain tracks segued by animal noises. Both contain tracks intended to sound live but actually recorded in the studio. (Bennie & the Jets / Within You Without You)Elton was a huge Beatles fan and within a year of recording this album covered Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds.
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