Philadelphia Freedom (song) ' Philadelphia Freedom ' is a song released by The Elton John Band as a single in 1975. The song was the fourth of Elton John's six number 1 US hits during the early and mid-1970s, which saw his recordings dominating the charts. In Canada it was his eighth single to hit the top of the RPM national singles chart. The Philadelphia of âPhiladelphia Freedomâ certainly sounds like an abstraction. Elton John usually took whatever lyrics his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin gave him, and then he fashioned. Elton's response was 'Philadelphia Freedom' - a hit so big that the man was forced to program it. Elton liked to make his singles as collectible as possible, and did this by filling his B sides with otherwise unavailable material. The flip of 'Philadelphia Freedom' is perhaps the most famous of these, 'I Saw Her Standing There.' In February 1975, Elton released 'Philadelphia Freedom' â a song that was not available on any album and would not be until its inclusion on 'Elton Johnâs Greatest Hits Volume 2' in 1977. We have just added a video of Elton and the band performing the song in its namesake city in February 2002 at the First Union Arena to Elton's official YouTube page.
If I understand correctly, this song is one of those rare songs that does NOT appear on any album. If that's the case, that should be noted.
American song?[edit]
Philadelphia is in America. And the song is not about the tennis team; the tennis team's name was merely the 'inspiration piece' for the song. Baseball BugsWhat's up, Doc? 04:05, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
The song is the perfect mix of the Bicentennial, patriotism, civil rights and (at least IMHO) a veiled reference to LGBT liberation. A modern ear can't help but hear some of that in the song. If Elton's intention was to honor Billie Jean King (as a tennis player and woman -- ergo, there is a civil rights element to the song), then it is no leap to read the lyrics as applying to LGBT issues. How else do you explain bits like .. 'Philadelphia Freedom took me knee-high to a man' (what does that mean?).. and 'You can live your life alone..some people choose the city.. some others choose the good-old family home. I like living easy without family ties' (!), and .. 'gave me peace of mind my daddy never had' (!). And '..shine a light through the eyes of the ones left behind'.. If it isn't a quasi-gay rights song -- what is? Now -- do we find any references to the queer-sensibility of the song in the literature? I'm not sure -- so I wanted to post this as an inducement to those with larger queer history libraries or references on Elton's musical career. Chesspride 66.19.84.2 (talk) 00:11, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
Additions to the page[edit]
I am a student at LSU enrolled in Women and Gender Studies. I am going to be adding a couple paragraphs to this page. I have found reputable sources that speak on Elton John's relation to Billie Jean King and her story. I recognize that the lyrics may not directly be about King and her match against Bobby Riggs, but the song stems from John's love of her and exemplifies the perfect anthem. She points out that he wrote this for her. The page currently mentions this, but leaves it at that, without a reason or story. I plan on using King's own words, as well as a scholarly article about the tennis match. As a huge Elton John fan, I did not know the story of Billie Jean King. I think it is important for us to tell more of the backstory so that other fans of John or this song can learn about the incredible Billie Jean King and her influence on John.
Ziggystardust20 (talk) 16:09, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
Other covers[edit]
It was also covered by Ike & Tina Turner: appears on Ike's album The Edge, Tina's mini-album Mini + various compilationsAll releases in discogs catalogue with their version https://www.discogs.com/search/?type=all&title=&artist=Turner&label=&track=Philadelphia+Freedom&catno=&barcode=&anv=&format=&credit=&genre=&style=&country=&year=&submitter=&contributor=&advanced=186.187.170.84 (talk) 02:58, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
Lyrics[edit]
On 26 Feb., I added a 'clarification needed' tag to one sentence ('The song's double entendres also lend it to some sexual interpretations.). Three weeks have gone by with no clarification, so today I removed the sentence in question.
I also noticed that the article points to an external site (MetroLyrics) with incorrect lyrics (and perhaps that's what gave rise to the above-mentioned sentence, but who knows). For example, that site shows the lyrics containing 'piece of mama, daddy never had'. On the other hand, the people who wrote and published the song have it as 'peace of mind my daddy never had'. Those people, and the lyrics provided by them, are:
These two sources have minor differences with each other, and also with what Elton sang on the released recording, but either one is probably more accurate than what appears on various lyrics websites when those sites have major deviations from what the original writers and publishers have to say on the matter. Therefore, I changed the lyrics reference from MetroLyrics to berniejtaupin.com. I would have pointed to AZLyrics, as I've found that the quality of lyrics on that site tends to be better than most other sites, but I don't want to run into issues about copyright as discussed on Template:MetroLyrics song (and, in fact, I now see that links to AZLyrics is blacklisted on Wikipedia, as I was unable to save a link to that in this Talk page entry). -- HLachman (talk) 04:03, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
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Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy is the ninth studio album by Elton John. The album is an autobiographical account of the early musical careers of Elton John (Captain Fantastic) and his long-term lyricist Bernie Taupin (the Brown Dirt Cowboy). It was released in May 1975 by MCA in America and DJM in the UK and was an instant commercial success. The album reached number 1 in its first week of release on the US Billboard 200, the first ever album to do so, reportedly selling 1.4 million copies within 4 days of release, and it stayed in that position in the chart for seven weeks.[2][3] Though they would all appear on later albums as guest musicians, this was the last album with the original lineup of the Elton John Band (guitarist Davey Johnstone, bassist Dee Murray, and drummer Nigel Olsson). Murray and Olsson, who had formed John's rhythm section since 1970, were sacked prior to the recording of the follow-up album Rock of the Westies, while Johnstone would leave in 1978. This was the last album until Too Low for Zero that Elton John and his classic band would play on together.
It was certified gold based on pre-release orders in early May 1975, two weeks before it was even officially released, and was certified platinum and triple platinum in March 1993 by the RIAA. In Canada, it also debuted at number 1 on the RPM national Top Albums chart and only broke a run of what would have been fifteen consecutive weeks at the top by falling one position to number 2 in the ninth week (31 Mayâ6 September).[4] On the UK Albums Chart, it peaked at number 2. In 2003, the album was ranked number 158 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised list.[5]
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History[edit]
Written, according to lyricist Bernie Taupin, in chronological order, Captain Fantastic is a concept album that gives an autobiographical glimpse at the struggles John (Captain Fantastic) and Taupin (the Brown Dirt Cowboy) had in the early years of their musical careers in London (from 1967 to 1969), leading up to John's eventual breakthrough in 1970. The lyrics and accompanying photo booklet are infused with a specific sense of place and time that would otherwise be rare in John's music. John composed the music on a ship voyage from the UK to New York.
'Someone Saved My Life Tonight', the only single released from the album (and a number 4 hit on the US Pop Singles chart), is a semi-autobiographical story about John's disastrous engagement to Linda Woodrow, and his related 1968 suicide attempt. The 'Someone' refers to Long John Baldry, who convinced him to break off the engagement rather than ruin his music career for an unhappy marriage. It was viewed by Rolling Stone writer Jon Landau as the best track on the album: 'As long as Elton John can bring forth one performance per album on the order of 'Someone Saved My Life Tonight', the chance remains that he will become something more than the great entertainer he already is and go on to make a lasting contribution to rock.'[8]
In a 2006 interview with Cameron Crowe, John said, 'I've always thought that Captain Fantastic was probably my finest album because it wasn't commercial in any way. We did have songs such as 'Someone Saved My Life Tonight,' which is one of the best songs that Bernie and I have ever written together, but whether a song like that could be a single these days, since it's [more than] six minutes long, is questionable. Captain Fantastic was written from start to finish in running order, as a kind of story about coming to terms with failureâor trying desperately not to be one. We lived that story.'
John, Taupin and the band laboured harder and longer on the album than perhaps any previous record they'd ever done to that point. As opposed to the rather quick, almost factory-like process of writing and recording an album in a matter of a few days or at most a couple of weeks (as with Goodbye Yellow Brick Road), the team spent the better part of a month off the road at Caribou Ranch Studios working on the recordings. Producer Gus Dudgeon was apparently also very satisfied with the results. The album's producer was quoted in Elizabeth Rosenthal's His Song, an exhaustive detailed accounting of nearly all John's recorded work, as saying he thought Captain Fantastic was the best the band and Elton had ever played, lauded their vocal work, and soundly praised Elton and Bernie's songwriting. 'There's not one song on it that's less than incredible,' Dudgeon said.
The 2006 album The Captain & the Kid is the sequel, and continues the autobiography where Captain Fantastic leaves off.
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Cover art[edit]
The intricate cover art was designed by pop artist Alan Aldridge, drawing fantastic imagery from the Renaissance painting The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch.[9][10] The original LP package also included two booklets; a 'Lyrics' booklet which contained an uncompleted lyric for 'Dogs in the Kitchen' that did not appear on the album, and another booklet called 'Scraps,' which collected photos and snippets of reviews, personal diary entries and other memorabilia of John and Taupin during the years that are chronicled on the album. The original LP also contained a poster of the album's cover.
In 1976, Bally released a Capt. Fantastic pinball machine with artwork by Dave Christensen of Elton John in his 'pinball wizard' character from the movie Tommy. In 1977, Bally released a 'home model' version with artwork by Alan Aldridge.
Later releases[edit]
Both 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' and 'Philadelphia Freedom' were originally released as non-album singles, but years later both songs, along with 'Lucy's B-Side, the John Lennon-penned 'One Day at a Time', were included as bonus tracks on the remastered Captain Fantastic CD reissue (although the version of 'Philadelphia Freedom' used is the edit from 1990's The Very Best of Elton John).
A deluxe 30th anniversary edition CD was released September 2005, containing the complete album and the bonus tracks included on prior reissues and adding 'House of Cards', the original B-side to the 7' single of 'Someone Saved My Life Tonight', which had previously only appeared on CD on the 1992 Rare Masters collection. Also included is a second disc containing the complete album performed live at Wembley Stadium on 21 June 1975.
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In September 2005, Elton John and his band again performed the entire album (minus 'Tower of Babel' and 'Writing') in a series of sold-out concerts in Boston, New York City and the tour's final stop, Atlanta, in October. These 'Captain Fantastic Concerts' were a part of the Peachtree Road Tour and were the longest concerts in Elton's career, many lasting at least three and a half hours. The songs from Captain Fantastic were aired by Capital Gold Radio in a broadcast taken from 16 September 2005 performance in Boston.
'Curtains', among other songs from the album, was sampled in Pnau's 2012 album Good Morning to the Night.
'We All Fall in Love Sometimes' was covered by Jeff Buckley.[11] It was also covered by Coldplay for the 2018 tribute album Revamp: Reimagining the Songs of Elton John & Bernie Taupin.
Track listing[edit]
All songs written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, except where noted.
Bonus tracks (1995 Mercury and 1996 Rocket reissue)[edit]
Bonus tracks (2005 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)[edit]
B-sides[edit]
Personnel[edit]
Track numbers refer to CD and digital releases of the album.
Accolades[edit]
Certifications[edit]
Charts[edit]
References[edit]Lyrics To Philadelphia Freedom
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