Talk:Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (song)

Stolen Content
The song description is word-for-word lifted from "His Song", and Elton John biography.

http://books.google.com/books?id=CieMGEblw6kC&pg=RA1-PA1955&sig=vnlnyhlu7jJ__fRAwutG6Lk3BaY

Go to page 1965. Google's copy jumps around a bit, so it is actually one page *before* the one linked to.

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Influence
I added a sentence or two about Elliott Smith and how this song influenced him. If anyone has any suggestions on how to clean up the citation, great. That's the first time I've ever cited a source on Wikipedia. I'm going to do some research and see if there are any other musicians who were influenced by this song. If so, I might start a section. Long Away May (talk) 13:40, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Bad citation
This statement: Rolling Stone ranked the song #380 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and later commented that the song "harnesse(s) the fantastical imagery of glam to a Gershwin-sweet melody" is not backed up by its citation: Rolling Stone. "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road". Rolling Stone Magazine. Retrieved June 11 2006. Noticing the retrieval date is a couple years ago, perhaps it said something else at that time, but now it doesn't. So I removed the citation and replaced it with a citation needed template as the statement is now unsourced. If anyone knows any further details about this citation or how it could be verified, please let us know, otherwise I will remove the statement altogether as per WP:V within a week or so (if I remember). -kotra (talk) 06:58, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Still uncited, so I've removed it (that was a week, wasn't it?). -kotra (talk) 19:13, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Muppet Show Version
You might want to mention that "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" was performed on The Muppet Show, with a major change. The first half of verse two was cut from the performance because of time constraints and a reference to alcoholism ("It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics / To set you on your feet again"). A physical copy of this version does not exist.

Original Lyrics

Performance clip

ElMeroEse (talk) 19:01, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

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Lyrics summary
Two years ago I added one sentence summarising what I believe is the overt and obvious sense of the lyrics to the article. Someone removed this as being "contentious, unsourced interpretation". I've now published this completely unoriginal interpretation on my blog, where anyone interested can refer to it. Not wanting to invite any edit warring, I'm not doing anything to the article myself.

https://aardvarchaeology.wordpress.com/2023/08/16/what-was-elton-john-leaving-via-the-yellow-brick-road/

Martin Rundkvist (talk) 18:20, 16 August 2023 (UTC)