Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy as bonus tracks on the remastered "Captain Fantastic" CD reissue (although the version of "Philadelphia Freedom" used is the edit from 1990's "The Very Best of Elton John"). A deluxe 30th anniversary edition CD was released September 2005, containing the complete album and the bonus tracks included on prior reissues and adding "House of Cards", the original B-side to the 7" single of "Someone Saved My Life Tonight", which had previously only appeared on CD on the 1992 "Rare Masters" collection. Also included is a second disc containing the complete album performed live at Wembley Stadium on 21 June 1975.
Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy to make a lasting contribution to rock." In a 2006 interview with Cameron Crowe, John said, "I've always thought that "Captain Fantastic" was probably my finest album because it wasn't commercial in any way. We did have songs such as "Someone Saved My Life Tonight," which is one of the best songs that Bernie and I have ever written together, but whether a song like that could be a single these days, since it's [more than] six minutes long, is questionable. "Captain Fantastic" was written from start to finish in running order, as a kind of story about coming to