was released only recently in the country". (The same critic, Bud Newman, also described the album as "meaningless and boring"! Haha.) Around the same time (July 1974), another newspaper announced that Empty Sky was "about to flood the United States. By mid-1974, for example, enough DJM import copies existed in the US and Canada that at least one music journalist proclaimed Empty Sky as "now available in the US for the first time on DJM Records" (June 1974). Moreover, Empty Sky had been available in the US and Canada as a DJM import for a good while before the MCA release. So, I'm sure MCA had included that piece of information it in whatever news release they issued at the time. Most journalists that mentioned the MCA version in their articles and columns also noted that it was not new material.
1975 newspaper ads for the album in my files and almost all, in some way, reveal that Empty Sky was a new release but contained old music. 1969-70 that fills the back of the sleeve that might have saved her a bit of shock. Still, I'm not sure if she'd noticed the photo of EJ from ca. She was a young teenager then and lived in the middle of nowhere her information sources were her friends at school, and seldom did they know more about forthcoming LPs than she did. Back in 1975, my mother had thought it was EJ's new album and was quite surprised when she played it for the first time. All lyrics by Bernie Taupin.Funny you should ask that, because I was thinking about that just recently. However, the four tracks only included on the 1995 re-issue of Empty Sky had all previously been released as singles or B-sides. Elton John's first studio album was released in 1969. The album was released in the UK in both. Recorded during the winter of 1968 and spring of 1969 in a DJM 8-track studio, Empty Sky is the only album in the early part of his career not produced by Gus Dudgeon, instead helmed by friend and DJM staffer Steve Brown. It was finally released in the US in January 1975, with a different cover photograph, well after John's fame had been established internationally.
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Listen free to Elton John Empty Sky Empty Sky, Val-Hala and more. With its ambitious arrangements and lyrics, it's clear that John and Taupin intended the album to be a major statement. Empty Sky is quite indicative of the post-Sgt.
Although he had made a number of re-recordings of popular songs for a budget record label in the late '60s, Empty Sky was the first true solo album Elton John recorded after leaving Bluesology it also marked the beginning of his long and fruitful collaboration with lyricist Bernie Taupin. Songs in album Elton John - Empty Sky 1969. While Elton's debut album was released in 1969 in the UK, it was not officially released in the US until 1975 and then under a different album cover than the one seen here. Recorded during the winter of 1968 and spring of 1969 in a DJM Records 8-track studio, Empty Sky is the only album in the early part of Elton John's career not produced by Gus Dudgeon, instead helmed by friend and DJM staffer Steve Brown. It would not be released in the United States until January 1975 on MCA, with different cover art, well after John's fame had been established internationally. Empty Sky is the debut studio album by British singer-songwriter Elton John, released on 6 June 1969.
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