Single:
Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting entered the Australian singles chart* on 3 September 1973 and peaked at #31.
Album:
The song is on Goodbye Yellow Brick Road which entered the Australian albums chart* on 19 November 1973. It reached #1 on 18 March 1974 and remained there for 3 weeks.
Songwriters:
Elton John, Bernie Taupin
Producer:
Gus Dudgeon
Record label of Australian release:
DJM
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Performed live at Central Park , New York in 1980:
BONUS VIDEO BELOW: Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting from the film Rocketman
Wikipedia:
Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting is a lively throwback to early rock and roll with a glam edge. The lyrics discuss a night out in town in which the narrator plans to “get about as oiled as a diesel train”. Bernie Taupin has said that the song was meant to be an American rock and roll song set in Britain. It was inspired by his raucous teenage days and in particular, the fistfights in his local pub, the Aston Arms in Market Rasen.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night’s_Alright_for_Fighting
Songfacts:
In the liner notes to Elton John’s boxed set, it explains that he recorded his vocal while leaping around and “going crazy.” It was the first time Elton recorded a vocal standing up, and he made the most out of it.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/elton-john/saturday-nights-alright-for-fighting
Lyrics:
It’s getting late, have you seen my mates?
Ma, tell me when the boys get here
It’s seven o’clock and I wanna rock
I wanna get a belly full of beer
My old man’s drunker than a barrel full of monkeys
And my old lady, she don’t care
My sister looks cute in her braces and boots
A handful of grease in her hair
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BONUS VIDEO
Kit Connor and Taron Egerton in Rocketman
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