Elton John’s seminal album ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’ has been re-issued to celebrate the 40th anniversary of its release.

The reissue includes a two disk special edition featuring nine new cover versions performed by Ed Sheeran, Miguel, John Grant, Emeli Sande and more.

‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’ was Elton John’s seventh studio album and went on to be one of his most popular, selling over 30 million copies and topping the album charts in the UK and the US.  It spawned the worldwide hits ‘Bennie and the Jets’, ’Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’ and ‘Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting’ – as well as ’Candle in the Wind’, which was re-recorded and released as a single in 1997 as a tribute to Princess Diana.

In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine Elton described writing the album with Bernie Taupin as “a very exciting time in my life. It was a time that we had no fear, nothing was beyond us. It’s a wonderful thing the young have when they get on a roll… and this was our example of being at the height of our creative powers."

John Grant - who covers ‘Sweet Painted Lady’ for the reissue - said, “Elton John is a legend, a trailblazer. He’s been a superstar almost as long as I’ve been alive. It would have been in the 1970s that I first heard ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’. It’s such an amazing song – but it doesn’t seem like there’s a weak one on that album."