Which Elton John album contains the 1973 single “Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting”?

“Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting” appears on Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Released in 1973, the song became one of Elton John’s most energetic rock performances and helped demonstrate the breadth of the double album.

Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics, drawing on memories of youthful nightlife and the charged atmosphere of Saturday evenings. Elton’s composition uses a hard-driving piano-and-guitar arrangement rather than the orchestral ballad style heard elsewhere on the album. The result is a fast, celebratory rock song built for live performance.

The single reached the UK Top 10 and became a staple of Elton’s concert repertoire. It is sometimes confused with “The Bitch Is Back,” another aggressive Elton John rock song, but that track belongs to the 1974 album Caribou.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road also contains “Bennie and the Jets,” “Candle in the Wind,” and “Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding.” Its varied styles helped make it one of Elton’s most important albums.