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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 replacing 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
Studio album by Elton John
Released	5 February 2016
Recorded	January – April 2015
Studio	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
Elton John chronology
The Diving Board (2013) Wonderful Crazy Night (2016) Diamonds (2017)
Singles from Wonderful Crazy Night
"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

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	70/100[7]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[8]
The Guardian	[9]
The Independent	[10]
Rolling Stone	[11]

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.

Accolades

Publication	Accolade	Year	Rank	Ref.
Rolling Stone	50 Best Albums of 2016	2016	40	[12]

Track listing

Personnel

• 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

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.
• 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

Charts

Chart (2016)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[14]	11
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[15]	8
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[16]	26
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[17]	26
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[18]	18
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[19]	32
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[20]	43
French Albums (SNEP)[21]	35
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[22]	10
Irish Albums (IRMA)[23]	41
Italian Albums (FIMI)[24]	15
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[25]	11
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[26]	17
Scottish Albums (OCC)[27]	5
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[28]	32
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[29]	15
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[30]	7
UK Albums (OCC)[31]	6
US Billboard 200[32]	8

References

External links

• Wonderful Crazy Nights at Discogs (list of releases)

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Wonderful Crazy Night — тридцать второй студийный альбом британского автора-исполнителя Элтона Джона, выпущенный 5 февраля 2016 года[2].

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