2016 studio album by Elton John
Wonderful Crazy Night Released 5 February 2016 Recorded January–April 2015 Studio The Village , Los Angeles, CaliforniaLength 41 :15 Label
Producer
"Looking Up " Released: 22 October 2015[ 1]
"Wonderful Crazy Night" Released: 15 December 2015
"Blue Wonderful" Released: 5 January 2016
"In the Name of You" Released: 29 January 2016
"A Good Heart" Released: 25 May 2016
Wonderful Crazy Night is the thirtieth studio album by English musician Elton John . It was released on 5 February 2016.[ 2] It is John's first album since 2006's The Captain & the Kid to feature the Elton John Band [ 3] and was written and recorded in 17 days.[ 4] [ 5] 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 replaced Bob Birch on bass. The album debuted at number eight on the U.S Billboard 200 with sales of 58,000 album-equivalent units sold.[ 6]
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.
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Rolling Stone
50 Best Albums of 2016
2016
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All tracks are written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin [ 13]
Title 1. "Wonderful Crazy Night" 3:13 2. "In the Name of You" 4:33 3. "Claw Hammer" 4:22 4. "Blue Wonderful" 3:37 5. "I've Got 2 Wings" 4:35 6. "A Good Heart" 4:50 7. "Looking Up " 4:06 8. "Guilty Pleasure" 3:38 9. "Tambourine" 4:17 10. "The Open Chord" 4:04 Total length: 41:15
Deluxe edition bonus tracks Title 11. "Free and Easy" 3:55 12. "England and America" 3:51 Total length: 49:01
Super deluxe edition bonus tracks Title 11. "Free and Easy" 3:55 12. "Children's Song" 3:49 13. "No Monsters" 4:58 14. "England and America" 3:51 Total length: 57:48
Target US and Japanese Deluxe edition bonus tracks Title 11. "Free and Easy" 3:55 12. "England and America" 3:51 13. "Looking Up" (live) 3:22 14. "Wonderful Crazy Night" (live) 3:15 Total length: 55:38
Elton John – acoustic piano, lead vocals
Kim Bullard – keyboards
Davey Johnstone – guitars, harmony vocals
Matt Bissonette – bass, harmony vocals
Nigel Olsson – drums, harmony vocals
John Mahon – percussion, harmony vocals
Ray Cooper – tambourine (3, 5, 8, 9)
Tom Peterson – baritone saxophone
Joe Sublett – tenor saxophone
Jim Thomson – tenor saxophone
John Grab – trombone
Nick Lane – trombone
William Roper – tuba
Allen Fogle – French horn
Dylan Hart – French horn
Gabe Witcher – horn arrangements and conductor
Ken Stacey – harmony vocals
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.
Additional engineer – Vanessa Parr
Digital editing – Mike Piersante
Mastered 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
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