Wonderful Crazy Night | ||||
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Studio album by Elton John | ||||
Released | 5 February 2016 | |||
Recorded | January – April 2015 at The Village, Los Angeles, California | |||
Genre | Rock, soft rock, rock and roll | |||
Length | 41:15 | |||
Label | Mercury, Virgin EMI, Island | |||
Producer | T Bone Burnett, Elton John | |||
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Singles from Wonderful Crazy Night | ||||
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Metacritic | 70/100 |
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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.
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.
All tracks written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin.