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"Bennie and the Jets" (also titled "Benny & the Jets") is a song written by English musician Elton John and songwriter Bernie Taupin, and performed by John. The song first appeared on the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album in 1973.
Taupin said "I saw Bennie and the Jets as a sort of proto-sci-fi punk band, fronted by an androgynous woman, who looks like something out of a Helmut Newton photograph."
The song peaked at No. 1 on the US singles chart in 1974.
It is ranked number 371 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and is included on the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's 660 Songs Which Shaped Rock & Roll.
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