Goodbye yellow brick road

By Elton John

Back Ground

• Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was the 7th album by Elton John which was released in 1973.It was originally intended as a single album but it was released as a double album. In 2003 The album was ranked number 91 on the rolling stone list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The album has sold 30 million copies worldwide.

Digipak Analysis

• The album is mostly yellow and relates to the title talking about the yellow brick road.

• This CD cover is conventional because the cover relates to the title of the CD but not to Elton John.

• The album comes with a cd which has 17 songs including the hit song “Goodbye Yellow brick road” and a 30 page booklet containing lyrics for the songs.

Digipak Analysis: Front cover• The front cover shows a man wearing

red shoes stepping into a poster onto the yellow brick road. This is relating to the title along with and all these features makes a reference to the Wizard of Oz story involving the ruby slippers and the yellow brick road. This helps to attract the target audience which is young people.The man walking into the poster has “ELTON JOHN” written on his back which tells the audience that this man is Elton John.

Digipak Analysis: Back cover• The back cover shows a picture of a

poster with Elton's face and signature in front of a yellow star. This symbolises that he is the star of the show and he is going to be singing still staying with yellow to go with the title. It also shows the song titles with the song time next to it. At the bottom it says “All songs written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin and the copyrights details. The record label is named as “The Record Co Ltd”. The spine of the album shows the title and the record label who made the album cover.

Digipak analysis: disc

• The disk has Elton John’s name on plus the title of the album and the design on the disk is made to make it look like a record.