Elton John / Wonderful Crazy Night

Things are looking up for Elton John fans as Virgin EMI Records announce a February launch date for Wonderful Crazy Night, his 33^rd studio album, which is available across a number of formats including deluxe CD and super deluxe edition box set.

As with the sparkly one’s 2013 LP The Diving Board and The Union, his 2010 collaboration with Leon Russell, the new record has again been co-produced by John and T-Bone Burnett. It also marks the continuation of his remarkable 48-year partnership with Bernie Taupin who co-wrote all ten songs on the standard album track list.

Sir Elt has also reconnected with some other trusted stalwarts for Wonderful Crazy Night including drummer Nigel Olsson and guitarist Davey Johnstone, who first worked with him in the late Sixties and early Seventies respectively and are back on the team for the first time since 2006 album The Captain & the Kid.

The excitable press release promises that the album, recorded at the Village studio in Los Angeles, is permeated with a ‘superbly live and spontaneous spirit’, and the first single, Looking Up, is said to offer a good slice of the sort of upbeat sound to expect.

The super deluxe edition box set includes two CDs (the second with four bonus tracks), 180g vinyl LP, plus a 20-page ‘photo magazine’, featuring a portfolio of specially commissioned Juergen Teller photographs of Elton, plus lyrics and ‘studio photography’ (presumably, this means photos of Elton in the studio).

Two of the four bonus tracks on the super deluxe edition bonus disc – namely, Free And Easy and England And America – also appear on the deluxe CD which means that until we hear otherwise (e.g. Target exclusive or Japanese edition) Children’s Song and No Monsters are exclusive to the box set.

Wonderful Crazy Night is released on 5 February 2016.

Super Deluxe Edition box

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• • GERMANY Pre-order: Wonderful Crazy Night box

Deluxe CD

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• FRANCE Pre-order: Wonderful Crazy Night *good price

Vinyl LP

• UK Pre-order: Wonderful Crazy Night
• FRANCE Pre-order: Wonderful Crazy Night * good price

Standard CD

• • UK Pre-order: Wonderful Crazy Night
• • USA Pre-order: Wonderful Crazy Night
• • CANADA Pre-order: Wonderful Crazy Night
• • FRANCE Pre-order: Wonderful Crazy Night *good price

Super Deluxe Edition

CD One:

1. Wonderful Crazy Night
2. In The Name Of You
3. Claw Hammer
4. Blue Wonderful
5. I’ve Got 2 Wings
6. A Good Heart
7. Looking Up
8. Guilty Pleasure
9. Tambourine
10. The Open Chord 

CD Two:

1. Free And Easy
2. Children’s Song
3. No Monsters
4. England And America

Vinyl LP

1. Wonderful Crazy Night
2. In The Name Of You
3. Claw Hammer
4. Blue Wonderful
5. I’ve Got 2 Wings
6. A Good Heart
7. Looking Up
8. Guilty Pleasure
9. Tambourine
10. The Open Chord

Deluxe CD 

1. Wonderful Crazy Night
2. In The Name Of You
3. Claw Hammer
4. Blue Wonderful
5. I’ve Got 2 Wings
6. A Good Heart
7. Looking Up
8. Guilty Pleasure
9. Tambourine
10. The Open Chord
11. Free And Easy*
12. England And America*

*bonus tracks

Vinyl LP / standard CD

1. Wonderful Crazy Night
2. In The Name Of You
3. Claw Hammer
4. Blue Wonderful
5. I’ve Got 2 Wings
6. A Good Heart
7. Looking Up
8. Guilty Pleasure
9. Tambourine
10. The Open Chord