Wonderful Crazy Night (2016)

Elton and co-producer T Bone Burnett collaborate on their third album, Elton’s 33rd studio effort. Elton wanted to create a “joyful” album and intentionally wrote in guitar keys (A, E, D) to push the uptempo feel of the project. Wonderful Crazy Night was written and recorded duri

In 1980, Elton John denoted his age and work rate with 21 at 33, the 21st album of an already prolific career. By the strictest arithmetic, his new release shows a slowing of productivity, since Wonderful Crazy Night could have been titled 33 at 68. But the apparently inexhaustible singer-songwriter – and beneath all the superstar hoopla, that is what he is still proud to call himself – maintains such an unremitting schedule in studio and on stage as to make nonsense of that interpretation. His sheer fervour for his craft puts many pretenders a third his age to shame.

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"What a wonderful crazy night that was," sings Elton John on the title track of his 33rd studio album -- a song that is neither crazy nor, to be frank about it, wonderful. It's a jaunty piece of piano-pop about a night of youthful abandon, a scenario that's sketched -- as is often the case when the lyrics are by Bernie Taupin -- in a mystifying jumble of images.

Elton John opens his 32nd studio album by looking back in delight. "Some things you don't forget/Some things just take a hold," he sings with relish in the title song, a jaunty recollection of lasting love at first sight. The music framing that glee – "Loose clothes and a cool, c

Wonderful Crazy Night is the thirtieth studio album by British singer-songwriter Elton John.[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 Co