{"product_id":"elton-john-empty-sky","title":"Elton John Empty Sky","description":"The 1996 reissue of EMPTY SKY includes four songs that were issued as two singles prior to the album's release: \"Lady Samantha\"\/\"All Across The Havens\" and \"It's Me That You Need\"\/\"Just Like Strange Rain.\" The album has been digitally remastered by Gus Dudgeon, using original master tapes and digital processing equipment at 20-bit resolution. According to Dudgeon (ICE newsletter, January 1996), the results are \"100% better\" than the two previous American CD issues.\r\nPersonnel: Elton John (vocals, piano, organ, electric piano, harpsichord); Caleb Quaye (electric \u0026amp; acoustic guitars, congas); Graham Vickery (harmonica); Don Fay (tenor saxophone, flute); Tony Murray (bass); Roger Pope (drums, percussion); Nigel Olsson (drums).\r\nRecorded at Dick James Studios and Olympic Studios, London, England. Includes liner notes by John Tobler and Gus Dudgeon.\r\nThis is part of Rocket's Elton John: The Classic Years series.\r\nNot released in the U.S. until 1975, after he'd achieved superstardom, Elton John's first album is as much a part of late-'60s blues-rock and the burgeoning singer-songwriter movement as it is part of the grandiose pop catalog that would soon follow. The eight-minute-plus title song includes a long flute-harmonica-piano jam that wouldn't have been out of place on a Traffic album; the closing \"Gulliver\/It's Hay Chewed\/Reprise\" connects a waltz-time requiem with an acoustic-jazz instrumental and (rather audiciously for an unknown singer's debut) a reprise of bits from every song on the album.\r\nElsewhere, one can find a Lennonesque melody on \"Western Ford Gateway,\" a breezy Summer-Of-Love feel on \"Hymn 2000,\" and recurring imagery of a caged bird dreaming of flying away--most notably in the title song and the harsichord-and-organ tune \"Skyline Pigeon.\" It all bursts with pop-rock melodicism, even when John was adding music to some of collaborator Bernie Taupin's most opaque, image-heavy lyrics. John would later call EMPTY SKY a \"naive\" record, but it contains the seeds of almost everything he would eventually do.\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 09\/22\/2017\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Rock\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Elton John","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49091879731489,"sku":"3BWXR2-GLNZ-DV","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/5099\/0625\/files\/elton-john-empty-sky_i7t9Y.jpg?v=1740257477","url":"https:\/\/birds-nest-records.myshopify.com\/products\/elton-john-empty-sky","provider":"Bird's Nest Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}