Today's song is the opening track of a number one album, released in 1973.
Arguably it's two songs stuck together. The artist has said the two songs were not written as one piece, but fit together since one ends in the key of A, and the second opens in A, and the two were played as one elongated piece when recorded. However, the songs are published and copyrighted individually and remain separate entities with separate sheet music.
This is possibly the only song that has been covered by Metallica and featured in an episode of Blackadder.
It's a slow start, fading up from silence with a spooky soundscape that plays for 30 seconds before the synthesizer notes come in.
Still, when you've got eleven minutes and three seconds to play with, you can take half a minute to get going.
From Elton John's best ever selling album, this is side one track one of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: Funeral for a Friend (love lies bleeding)