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Elton John’s landmark Captain Fantastic and The Brown Dirt Cowboy returns this fall with a bonus disc of unreleased material in time for its 50th anniversary.  Due on CD and purple/white swirl vinyl, the album (remastered in 2016) will be paired with a second disc featuring unreleased session demo versions of five songs from the original LP (including two takes on the title track) as well as a near-full album performance of the album in Atlanta, GA in 2005, featuring additional vocals from the Voice of Atlanta Choir. The 2LP set will truncate the live performance, and the 2CD package will add to the album a quartet of single-only tracks, including a cover of The Beatles’ “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” and the smash hit “Philadelphia Freedom.” However, the vinyl packaging is expanded from what’s in the  CD, offering not only the liner notes and photo scrapbook but also including never-before-seen excerpts of Elton’s own diary entries from the period. (UMR will also release a D2C-exclusive purple vinyl edition of a full-album performance just after its original release at Wembley Stadium in the summer of 1975, which was included as a bonus disc of a previous deluxe edition in 2005.) As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.