TIL the applause in Elton John's "Bennie and the Jets" was taken from a Jimi Hendrix performance and "fake-lived" by the audio engineers.
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Elton John – Bennie And The Jets (1974)
https://newmusicunited.com/2016/01/29/elton-john-bennie-and-the-jets-1974/
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…