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Wonderful Crazy Night

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Released
  
5 February 2016

Wonderful Crazy Night (2016)
  
TBA (2018)

Release date
  
5 February 2016

Length
  
41:15

Artist
  
Elton John

Genres
  
Rock music, Soft rock

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Recorded
  
January – April 2015 at The Village, Los Angeles, California

Label
  
Mercury, Virgin EMI, Island

Producers
  
T Bone Burnett, Elton John

Nominations
  
GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Music Artist

Similar
  
Elton John albums, Rock music albums

Elton john in the name of you official audio


Wonderful Crazy Night is the 32nd studio album by British singer-songwriter Elton John. It is John's first album since 2006's The Captain & the Kid to feature the Elton John Band, and was written and recorded in 17 days. John's long-standing percussionist, Ray Cooper, makes his first appearance on any of John's albums since Made in England in 1995. This is Kim Bullard's first appearance on keyboards replacing Guy Babylon, and Matt Bissonette replacing Bob Birch on bass.

Contents

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Critical reception

Wonderful Crazy Night received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 70, which indicates "generally favorable reviews", based on 17 reviews.

Track listing

All tracks written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin.

Personnel

  • Elton John: piano, lead vocals
  • Kim Bullard: keyboards
  • Davey Johnstone: guitar, harmony vocals
  • Matt Bissonette: bass guitar, harmony vocals
  • Nigel Olsson: drums, harmony vocals
  • John Mahon: percussion, harmony vocals
  • Ray Cooper: tambourine
  • Jim Thomson: tenor saxophone
  • Joe Sublett: tenor saxophone
  • Tom Peterson: baritone saxophone
  • John Grab: trombone
  • Nick Lane: trombone
  • Allen Fogle: French horn
  • Dylan Hart: French horn
  • Gabe Witcher: horn arrangements and conductor
  • Ken Stacey: harmony vocals
  • Production

  • Producers: Elton John and T Bone Burnett
  • Associate Producer: Kylie Kempster
  • Recorded and Mixed by Jason Wormer
  • Second Engineers: Gabriel Burch, Jeff Gartenbaum, Vanessa Parr and Alex Williams.
  • Editing: Mike Piersante
  • Remastered by Gavin Lurssen at Lurssen Mastering (Hollywood, CA).
  • Piano Technician: Carl Lieberman
  • Equipment Technician: Rick Salazar
  • Production Coordinator and Contractor: Ivy Skoff
  • Photography: Joseph Guay and Juergen Teller
  • Art Direction and Design: Mat Maitland
  • Creative Directors: Elton John and Toby King
  • Songs

    1Wonderful Crazy Night3:13
    2In the Name of You4:33
    3Claw Hammer4:22

    References

    Wonderful Crazy Night Wikipedia