Old music: Elton John – Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding

Stealing from Elton John's dustbin is not, apparently, the best way to attract the opposite sex. Who knew?Rubbish. A load of old trash. Garbage. These are the words that always spring to my mind when I hear the opening tracks of Elton's John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album.Not, though, because Funeral for a Friend and Love Lies Bleeding are in themselves unsavoury – quite the opposite, in fact – but because they always conjure up memories of the halcyon summer of 1974 when I spent the holi...

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