Goodbye Yellow Brick Road for sure,

Try Madmann Acros the River and Captain Fantasyic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy.

And side one of the double album Blue Moves is very progy, most of Blue Moves is progy.

Hes 8 first albums are all very eclectoc which is quite common among early 70s singer-songwriters. For Eltons case its a mix of roots, classical inspired neo-classical harpsicord ballads, folk rock, piano rock, honky tonk.

Tumbleweed Connection is the best epic americana inspired album and its made by a brit. It contains some really good songs and its Eltons most genuibly perfect albums through and through.

Artik wrote: Quite unexpected for me was to read about EJ being involved in the Gentle Giant's first steps from Simon Dupree to prog mavericks and was even briefly considered as GG member. I've seen somebody mentioned him trying to become King Crimson member in the early stages of the band too. Not sure if the latter is true. Nevertheless, is there any EJ album proggy enough to recommend to a proghead?

Yes, Elton did try out for the KC vocal job, so did Bryan Ferry too. "Madman Across the water" is an excellent album.

Edited by Easy Money - March 30 2021 at 16:55

You've convinced me of Elton John's proggy credentials enough to add him to my latest prog channel (in place of Janus). 

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - April 25 2021 at 02:42

Try the debute Empty Sky also, very raw, ambissous and eclectic, with some Simon Dupree esque elements

Edited by Icarium - April 01 2021 at 03:05

"Rocket Man" is the best song about cocaine addiction ever, heart breaking lyrics.

 There is a really good tribute album called 

nick_h_nz wrote: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road for sure, Blue Moves, maybe,

Icarium wrote: Try the debute Empty Sky also, very raw, ambitious and eclectic, with some Simon Dupree esque elements

the (I think) organ solo in Daniel is soooooooo beautiful

Edited by kenethlevine - April 25 2021 at 07:37