{"id":29918,"date":"2024-07-15T18:03:16","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T18:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-july-15-1972-elton-john-lands-his-first-1-album-with-honky-chateau\/"},"modified":"2024-07-15T18:03:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T18:03:16","slug":"on-this-day-july-15-1972-elton-john-lands-his-first-1-album-with-honky-chateau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-july-15-1972-elton-john-lands-his-first-1-album-with-honky-chateau\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, July 15, 1972: Elton John lands his first #1 album with &#8216;Honky Ch\u00e2teau&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-15\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Elton John<\/strong> topped the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> 200 Album chart with his fifth studio album, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Honky Ch\u00e2teau<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The album, named after Ch\u00e2teau d&#8217;H\u00e9rouville, the 18th century French chateau where it was recorded, was Elton\u2019s first #1 album, spending five weeks on top the chart.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Honky Ch\u00e2teau<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> featured future Elton classics \u201cRocket Man\u201d and \u201cHonky Cat,\u201d which were both top 10 hits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The album was the first of seven consecutive #1 albums from Elton, his last\u00a0being <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy <\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">in 1975.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elton John topped the Billboard 200 Album chart with his fifth studio album, Honky Ch\u00e2teau. The album, named after Ch\u00e2teau d&#8217;H\u00e9rouville, the 18th century French chateau where it was recorded, was Elton\u2019s first #1 album, spending five weeks on top the chart.\u00a0 Honky Ch\u00e2teau featured future Elton classics \u201cRocket Man\u201d<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-july-15-1972-elton-john-lands-his-first-1-album-with-honky-chateau\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}