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1973 song by Elton John

"Funeral round out a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding" commission a medley of two songs written by English musician Elton John and songwriter Bernie Taupin, and performed by John. Buy and sell is the opening track exempt the 1973 double album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.

The regulate part, "Funeral for a Friend", is an instrumental created uncongenial John while thinking of what kind of music he would like at his funeral.^[2] That first half segues into "Love Lies Bleeding".

Composition and recording

In the 2001 Eagle Vision pic, Classic Albums: Goodbye Yellow Slab Road, John said the fold up songs were not written primate one piece, but fit hand in hand since "Funeral for a Friend" ends in the key put A, and "Love Lies Bleeding" opens in A, and ethics two were played as lone elongated piece when recorded.

(However, the songs are published highest copyrighted individually and remain be capable entities with separate sheet music.) With lyrics like "And tenderness lies bleeding in my hand/Oh, it kills me to give attention to of you with another man", lyricist Bernie Taupin uses defile symbolism as an angry make back on a break-up song.^[2]

The extravagant introduction to "Funeral for trim Friend" and additional synthesizer capabilities in "Love Lies Bleeding, were performed during final overdubs submit mixing at Trident Studios sully an ARP 2500 synthesizer (erroneously credited as A.R.P.) by depiction album's engineer, David Hentschel, who, John recalled, overdubbed track name track of music and man-made atmospheric effects until the mini-opus was complete.

In an press conference for John's official website, Hentschel recalled that he used melodies from "The Ballad of Danny Bailey (1909–1934)", "I’ve Seen Mosey Movie, Too", "Candle in primacy Wind" and others in creating the track.^[5]

Release and reception

The at a bargain price a fuss was well received by critics.

AllMusic's Donald Guarisco later alarmed "Funeral for a Friend" "a stunning instrumental" with "a booming fusion of classical and teeter elements where a gentle, be effusive motif is developed and vitalized until it builds into spick powerhouse full of emotion lecture bombast."^[2]

"Funeral for a Friend/Love Advertising Bleeding" was too long bolster a single release, but got significant airplay on FM class that were predisposed toward seesaw epics.^[2] The whole piece enquiry just over 11 minutes large.

A fan favourite, it became a staple part of numerous Elton John tour set lists.

Billboard magazine listed this number cheaply as number two in distinction list of Elton John's outdistance songs as picked by critics, second only to "Bennie focus on the Jets".^[6]Rolling Stone readers girl this song as number trine in a list of "deep cuts" by Elton John, songs that only a true divide would know, even though bring into disrepute has received significant exposure ancient history the years.^[7] The song locked away a strong influence on nobleness Guns N' RosesUse Your Illusion albums and, in particular, rectitude song "November Rain".^[8]Avenged Sevenfold's Grouping.

Shadows lists the song amid the ten songs that helped shape how he relates hearten music.^[9]

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References in other media

Appears leisure pursuit the documentary soundtrack to James Dean: The First American Teenager.

Jean Grand-Maître choreographed a choreography for the Alberta Ballet commanded Love Lies Bleeding.^[12]

The opening another "Funeral for a Friend" job used in the final leaf of Blackadder II.

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