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1975 studio album by Elton John

Helm Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
Elton John - Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy.jpg
Studio anthology by

Elton John
Released 19 May 1975
Recorded August 1974[1]
Studio Caribou Ranch, Nederland, Colorado
Genre Rock, pop
Length 46:32
Characterization MCA (US)
DJM (United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland)
Producer Gus Dudgeon
Elton John chronology
Elton John Greatest Hits
(1974) 		Helm Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
(1975) 		Rock of the Westies
(1975)
Singles from Captain Fantastic and the Dark-brown Dirt Cowboy
  1. "Someone Saved My Life Tonight"
    Released: 23 June 1975

Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy is the ninth studio album by English language musician Elton John. The album is an autobiographical account of the early on musical careers of Elton John (Captain Fantastic) and his long-term lyricist Bernie Taupin (the Chocolate-brown Dirt Cowboy). It was released in May 1975 by MCA in America and DJM in the United kingdom and was an instant commercial success. The anthology was certified aureate before its release, and reached No. 1 in its beginning week of release on the US Billboard 200, the showtime e'er album to achieve both honors. It sold 1.4 million copies within four days of release, and stayed in the top position in the chart for seven weeks.[2] [3]

Though they would all appear on afterwards albums, this was the last album of the 1970s with the original lineup of the Elton John Band (guitarist Davey Johnstone, bassist Dee Murray, and drummer Nigel Olsson). Murray and Olsson, who had formed John's rhythm section since 1970, were fired prior to the recording of the follow-upward album Rock of the Westies, while Johnstone would leave in 1978. This was the last album until 1983's Too Depression for Cypher that Elton John and his archetype band would play on together.

In 2003, the album was ranked number 158 on Rolling Stone 's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised listing.[4]

History [edit]

Written, according to lyricist Bernie Taupin, in chronological gild, 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), leading up to John's eventual breakthrough in 1970. The lyrics and accompanying photo booklet are infused with a specific sense of place and fourth dimension that would otherwise exist rare in John's music. John composed the music on a ship voyage from the Great britain to New York.

"Someone Saved My Life This night", the only single released from the album (and a number iv hit on the US Popular Singles chart), is a semi-autobiographical story about John's disastrous appointment to Linda Woodrow, and his related 1968 suicide attempt. The "Someone" refers to Long John Baldry, who convinced him to break off the date rather than ruin his music career for an unhappy marriage. It was viewed by Rolling Rock author Jon Landau as the best track on the anthology: "As long every bit Elton John can bring forth 1 performance per anthology on the order of 'Someone Saved My Life Tonight', the chance remains that he volition become something more than the great entertainer he already is and go on to make a lasting contribution to rock."[5]

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. Nosotros did accept songs such every bit 'Someone Saved My Life Tonight,' which is one of the best songs that Bernie and I have ever written together, simply whether a song similar that could be a single these days, since it's [more than] 6 minutes long, is questionable. Helm Fantastic was written from start to finish in running order, as a kind of story about coming to terms with failure—or trying badly non to be ane. Nosotros lived that story."[half-dozen] [seven]

John, Taupin and the band laboured harder and longer on the anthology than perchance any previous record they'd e'er done to that indicate. As opposed to the rather quick, near factory-similar procedure of writing and recording an album in a thing of a few days or at most a couple of weeks (equally with Goodbye Yellow Brick Road), the team spent the better part of a month off the route 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'southward His Song, an exhaustive detailed bookkeeping of about all John'south recorded piece of work, equally proverb he thought Helm Fantastic was the best the band and Elton had ever played, lauded their vocal work, and soundly praised Elton and Bernie'due south songwriting. "There's not one vocal on information technology that'southward less than incredible," Dudgeon said.

Sequel [edit]

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

Cover art [edit]

The intricate cover fine art was designed by pop artist Alan Aldridge, drawing fantastic imagery from the Renaissance painting The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch.[viii] [ix] The original LP packet also included 2 booklets; a "Lyrics" booklet which contained an uncompleted lyric for "Dogs in the Kitchen" that did not appear on the album, and another booklet called "Scraps," which collected photos and snippets of reviews, personal diary entries and other memorabilia of John and Taupin during the years that are chronicled on the anthology. The original LP too contained a affiche of the album's cover.

In 1976, Bally released a Capt. Fantastic pinball machine with artwork by Dave Christensen of Elton John in his "pinball magician" character from the movie Tommy. In 1977, Bally released a "home model" version with artwork by Alan Aldridge.

Release and reception [edit]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [x]
Rolling Stone (favourable)[5]
The Village Voice B[eleven]

The album reached number 1 in its offset week of release on the U.s.a. Billboard 200, the first ever anthology to exercise so, reportedly selling 1.four million copies within iv days of release, and information technology stayed in that position in the chart for seven weeks.[2] [three] It was certified aureate based on pre-release orders in early May 1975, two weeks before it was even officially released, and was certified platinum and triple platinum in March 1993 past the RIAA.

In Canada, it as well debuted at number 1 on the RPM national Top Albums chart and but broke a run of what would have been fifteen consecutive weeks at the top by falling one position to number ii in the 9th week (31 May–6 September).[12] On the Britain Albums Chart, information technology peaked at number ii.

In 2003, the album was ranked #158 on Rolling Stone magazine's listing of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised list.[iv]

Later releases [edit]

A deluxe 30th anniversary edition CD was released September 2005, containing the complete anthology and adding "House of Cards", the original B-side to the 7" single of "Someone Saved My Life Tonight", which had previously simply appeared on CD on the 1992 Rare Masters collection. Besides included is a 2d disc containing the complete album performed alive at Wembley Stadium on 21 June 1975.

In September 2005, Elton John and his band once again performed the entire album (minus "Tower of Babel" and "Writing") in a series of sold-out concerts in Boston, New York City and the tour's terminal stop, Atlanta, in October. These "Captain Fantastic Concerts" were a part of the Peachtree Road Tour and were the longest concerts in Elton's career, many lasting at least 3 and a half hours. The songs from Captain Fantastic were aired by Capital Gold Radio in a circulate taken from 16 September 2005 functioning in Boston.

"Curtains", amidst other songs from the album, was sampled in Pnau'due south 2012 anthology Proficient Morning time to the Night.

"We All Autumn in Love Sometimes" was covered past Jeff Buckley.[thirteen] Information technology was as well covered by Coldplay for the 2018 tribute album Revamp: Reimagining the Songs of Elton John & Bernie Taupin.

Track listing [edit]

All songs written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, except where noted.

Side one
No. Title Length
i. "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Clay Cowboy" 5:46
2. "Tower of Babel" 4:28
iii. "Biting Fingers" 4:35
four. "Tell Me When the Whistle Blows" four:twenty
5. "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" 6:45
Side two
No. Title Length
6. "(Gotta Get a) Meal Ticket" 4:01
7. "Better Off Dead" 2:37
viii. "Writing" 3:40
9. "Nosotros All Autumn in Love Sometimes" 4:15
10. "Defunction" six:15
Total length: 46:32

Notation: On the original DJM Records CD version, "We All Fall in Love Sometimes" and "Curtains" are both combined into one track, making it a nine-track album. On all other CD versions (MCA Records, Polydor and French label Carrere Records), the 2 tracks are separated.

Bonus tracks (1995 Mercury and 1996 Rocket reissue) [edit]

No. Title Author(southward) Length
11. "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" John Lennon/Paul McCartney 6:18
12. "One Twenty-four hour period at a Time" John Lennon 3:49
xiii. "Philadelphia Freedom" 5:22
Total length: 62:01

30th Anniversary Palatial Edition [edit]

Bonus track
No. Title Length
14. "Firm of Cards" iii:12
Total length: 65:13
Disc two: Live from "Midsummer Music" at Wembley Stadium, 21 June 1975
No. Championship Writer(s) Length
ane. "Captain Fantastic and the Brownish Clay Cowboy" vii:02
two. "Tower of Babel" 4:38
3. "Bitter Fingers" v:06
4. "Tell Me When the Whistle Blows" iv:39
5. "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" 7:17
vi. "(Gotta Go a) Repast Ticket" 7:nineteen
vii. "Amend Off Dead" 3:01
8. "Writing" 5:30
9. "We All Autumn in Love Sometimes" iii:57
10. "Defunction" eight:48
eleven. "Pinball Wizard" Pete Townshend 6:31
12. "Saturday Night'south Alright for Fighting" 7:forty
Total length: 71:28

Personnel [edit]

Track numbers refer to CD and digital releases of the album.

  • Elton John – pb vocals, audio-visual piano (i, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10), Fender Rhodes (i, 4, 5, viii), clavinet (iv, 6), ARP String Ensemble (5), harmony vocals (7, viii), harpsichord (9, x), mellotron (ix, ten)
  • David Hentschel – ARP synthesizer (9, ten)
  • Davey Johnstone – acoustic guitar (one, five-ten), electrical guitar (1-iv, 6, 9, 10), mandolin (1), backing vocals (3, 5-10), Leslie guitar (5), acoustic piano (viii)
  • Dee Murray – bass guitar, backing vocals (3, 5-x)
  • Nigel Olsson – drums, backing vocals (iii, five-x)
  • Ray Cooper – shaker (one, v, viii), congas (1, three, 4, 9, 10), gong (one), jawbone (1), tambourine (ane-half-dozen, 9, ten), bells (three, 9, 10), cymbals (5), triangle (7, 8), bongos (8)
  • Factor Folio – orchestral arrangements (4)

Wembley Stadium, 21 June 1975

  • Elton John – acoustic piano, atomic number 82 vocals
  • James Newton Howard – keyboards
  • Davey Johnstone – electric guitar, backing vocals
  • Jeff "Skunk" Baxter – electric guitar, steel guitar
  • Caleb Quaye – electric guitar
  • Kenny Passarelli – bass guitar
  • Roger Pope – drums
  • Ray Cooper – percussion
  • Donny Gerrard – backing vocals
  • Brian Russell – backing vocals
  • Brenda Russell – backing vocals

Production [edit]

  • Producer – Gus Dudgeon
  • Engineer – Jeff Guercio
  • Banana Engineer – Mark Guercio
  • Remixing – Gus Dudgeon and Phil Dunne
  • Remastering – Tony Cousins
  • Digital Transfers – Ricky Graham
  • Art Direction and Graphic Conception – David Larkham and Bernie Taupin
  • Cover Design and Illustrations – Alan Aldridge and Harry Willock
  • Booklet Illustrations – Alan Aldridge and John Hair
  • Parcel Design – David Larkham
  • Inner Sleeve Photography – Terry O'Neill
  • Booklet Photos – Sam Emerson, David Larkham, Anthony Lowe, Michael Ross and Ian Vaughan.
  • Liner Notes – John Tobler, Paul Gambaccini (Palatial Edition)

Accolades [edit]

Grammy Awards

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

References [edit]

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External links [edit]

  • Captain Fantastic and the Brownish Dirt Cowboy at Discogs (listing of releases)

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