{"id":30780,"date":"2024-11-05T18:02:43","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T18:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-nov-5-1971-elton-john-released-madman-across-the-water\/"},"modified":"2024-11-05T18:02:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T18:02:43","slug":"on-this-day-nov-5-1971-elton-john-released-madman-across-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-nov-5-1971-elton-john-released-madman-across-the-water\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Nov. 5, 1971: Elton John released &#8216;Madman Across The Water&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-11-01\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag_1.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Nov. 5, 1971 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Elton John<\/strong> released his fourth studio album, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Madman Across The Water<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, featuring nine tracks composed and performed by Elton, with lyrics written by his songwriting partner <strong>Bernie Taupin<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The album featured two future Elton classics, \u201cTiny Dancer\u201d and \u201cLevon,\u201d although neither were huge hits at the time they were released. In fact, while \u201cLevon\u201d peaked at #24, \u201cTiny Dancer\u201d failed to make the top 40, only making it to #41.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Madman Across The Water<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0charted at #8 on the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> 200 Album chart and has gone on to be certified double Platinum by the RIAA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Nov. 5, 1971 &#8230; Elton John released his fourth studio album, Madman Across The Water, featuring nine tracks composed and performed by Elton, with lyrics written by his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin. The album featured two future Elton classics, \u201cTiny Dancer\u201d and \u201cLevon,\u201d although neither were huge<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-nov-5-1971-elton-john-released-madman-across-the-water\/\">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\/30780"}],"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=30780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}