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After recording the song in the studio, John and the band worried that it was too plain and unoriginal. In the Eagle Vision documentary on the making of “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” Joh…
I’d heard they added clapping sounds on every beat of that track to imitate an audience that didn’t know to clap on 2 and 4.
Someone made a version without crowd noises: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAfAlfSlobA