In 2005, in the United Kingdom, a special edition of Peachtree Road was published, in CD / DVD and in double LP: it contains three more tracks (The Letter, Merry Christmas, Maggie Thatcher and Electricity) composed for the musical Elton JohnвЂ™s Billy Elliot the Musical (Electricity reached a number 4 UK), as well as a DVD containing nine tracks of the album performed live in Atlanta. Even the singles All That IвЂ™m Allowed, Turn the Lights Out When You Leave and Answer in the Sky have not been particularly successful. Peachtree Road is therefore one of the least sold albums of the entire career of Elton John, and perhaps represents his record of unpublished works. This was because it was not a commercial album at all: the airy and acoustic sounds were not suitable for a general audience. Peachtree Road was critically acclaimed, but it turned out to be a flop from a strictly commercial point of view: it is in fact one of the very few Elton records to have not reached the Top 10 at home (number 21 UK), while United States has just achieved a number 17 (in Italy it has reached the number 25). The songs were performed for the first time at The Tabernacle in Atlanta at the beginning of November of the same year at Madison Square Garden, moreover, and always in 2004, Elton has dueled with Dolly Parton on Turn the Lights Out When You Leave. More photos appear in the CD booklet.ДЇrom an artistic point of view, the album sees for the first time Elton in the guise of the only producer (in the past produced his albums but always in the company of another co-producer): the result achieved was very good, following the road already flattened by the previous Songs from the West Coast and inspired by the piano ballads of the seventies, but it could be criticized that its production is quite standard and devoid of particular variations to its classic sound. The cover is a photograph, taken by Sam Taylor-Wood and chosen by Elton: portrays a desolate railway crossing near Douglasville, suburb of Atlanta (symbolizing the intrinsic artistic freedom in John). The record, recorded in three different studios, is named after the northern part of Peachtree Street, located near Atlanta, where one of Elton JohnвЂ™s homes is located. It is dedicated to Gus Dudgeon and his wife Sheila, who died in a car accident two years earlier. Peachtree Road is the forty-fifth album (the twenty-ninth in studio) by the British artist Elton John, published on November 9, 2004. вЂњ Turn the Lights Out When You LeaveвЂќ вЂ“ 5:02.

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