Wonderful Crazy Night

Wonderful Crazy Night is the thirtieth studio album by English musician Elton John. It was released on 5 February 2016. 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 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.

Critical reception
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.

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