Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy is an autobiographical concept album on which Elton John and lyricist Bernie Taupin recount, in chronological order, their lean early years as a songwriting duo in London. Originally released in 1975, it opened with the title track and included 'Someone Saved My Life Tonight', which looked back on a period when John was at his lowest. On release it entered the US Billboard 200 straight at number one — the first album ever to do so. Gus Dudgeon produced, as he did on nearly all of John's classics from those years.
This edition is a double CD with bonus tracks.
- 1 Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
- 2 Tower of Babel
- 3 Bitter Fingers
- 4 Tell Me When the Whistle Blows
- 5 Someone Saved My Life Tonight
- 6 (Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket
- 7 Better Off Dead
- 8 Writing
- 9 We All Fall in Love Sometimes
- 10 Curtains
- 11 Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
- 12 One Day at a Time
- 13 Philadelphia Freedom
- 14 House of Cards
- 15 Tell Me When the Whistle Blows
- 16 Captain Fantastic
- 17 Writing
- 18 We All Fall in Love Sometimes
- 19 Captain Fantastic
- 20 Bitter Fingers
- 21 Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
- 22 Bitter Fingers
- 23 Tell Me When the Whistle Blows
- 24 Someone Saved My Life Tonight
- 25 (Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket
- 26 Better Off Dead
- 27 We All Fall in Love Sometimes / Curtains
ArtistElton John
Number of discs2
FormatCD
GenrePop
StylesPop Rock, Singer-Songwriter
Year24-10-2025
EAN0602478033315
