Reginald Dwight's 2nd album proper was recorded in a week in January 1970 at Trident Studios in London and then released in the spring of 1970. It included the monster hit Your Song and after years of soul-destroying session work and an underachieving debut album Empty Sky - both the single and the self-titled album finally kick-started Elton John's extraordinary career which is still strong 50 years after the event.