1. Doyle, Captain Fantastic: Elton John’s Stellar Trip Through the ’70s.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Joe Bosso, “Davey Johnstone—My Career with Elton John,” Music Radar, April 4, 2011, https://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/exclusive-interview-davey-johnstone-my-career-with-elton-john-413589.
5. Ibid.
6. Doyle, Captain Fantastic: Elton John’s Stellar Trip Through the ’70s.
7. Bronson, The Billboard Book of Number One Hits.
8. “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye_Yellow_Brick_Road.
9. Bosso, “Davey Johnstone—My Career with Elton John.”
10. Doyle, Captain Fantastic: Elton John’s Stellar Trip Through the ’70s.
11. Ibid.
12. Jason Newman, “Elton John Talks Miguel and Wale’s ‘Bennie and the Jets’ Cover,” Rolling Stone, March 21, 2014, https://www.rollingstone.com/ … /elton-john-talks-miguel-and-wales-bennie-and-the-jets-cover.
13. Buckley, Elton: The Biography.
14. “Bennie and the Jets,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennie_and_the_Jets#Song_composition.
15. Karen Bliss, “The Legacy of Rosalie Trombley, Radio Pioneer Immortalized in Bob Seger’s ‘Rosalie’ and Breaker of ‘Bennie and the Jets,’” Billboard, January 21, 2016, https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6851506/legacy-rosalie-trombley-radio-pioneer-bob-seger-guess-who-elton-john.
16. Andy Greene, “Elton John and Bernie Taupin Look Back at ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,’” Rolling Stone, March 14, 2014, https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/elton-john-and-bernie-taupin-look-back-at-goodbye-yellow-brick-road-205112/.
17. Bronson, The Billboard Book of Number One Hits.
18. Andy Greene, “Flashback: Elton John Hits Number One with ‘Bennie and the Jets,’” Rolling Stone, April 11, 2019, https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/elton-john-bennie-jets-number-one-821152/.
19. “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” Wikipedia.
20. Greene, “Elton John and Bernie Taupin Look Back At ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.’”
21. Doyle, Captain Fantastic: Elton John’s Stellar Trip Through the ’70s.
22. Ibid.
23. Robert Christgau, “Elton John: The Little Hooker Who Could,” Village Voice, November 24, 1975, https://www.villagevoice.com/2019/03/01/elton-john-a-bitch-is-born/.
24. Richard Buskin, “Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” Sound on Sound, October 2011, https://www.soundonsound.com/people/elton-john-goodbye-yellow-brick-road.