Elton John (and band) - Funeral for a Friend/ Love Lies Bleeding (1973)

Another (long) clip from the Classic Albums series from Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Some nice solo piano from Elton at the beginning of the clip, but then there's a breakdown of the mix, at the desk, at around the 7 minute mark, with a hint of the vocal harmonies just after.

This song shifts from a its first section - an elegy - to something angrier: like the work of mourning in reverse. I suppose it made sense of the world in 1973 when the Fordist/Keynesian/welfare-stateist system collapsed and was lost as the post-war boom whimpered off stage.