Wonderful Crazy Night

{{Album ratings

| MC = 70/100{{cite web|title=Wonderful Crazy Night Reviews |url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/wonderful-crazy-night/elton-john |publisher=Metacritic |access-date=26 February 2016}}

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite web |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |title=Wonderful Crazy Night Review |website=AllMusic |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/wonderful-crazy-night-mw0002903075 |access-date=11 February 2016}}

|rev2 = The Guardian

|rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite news |last=Dennis |first=Jon |title=Elton John: Wonderful Crazy Night – review |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/feb/04/elton-john-wonderful-crazy-night-review-convincing-return-to-his-americana-roots |work=The Guardian |date=4 February 2016 |access-date=11 February 2016}}

|rev3 = The Independent

|rev3score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite news |last=Gill |first=Andy |title=Album review: Elton John, Wonderful Crazy Night (Island) |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/elton-johns-wonderful-crazy-night-has-an-infectiously-spontaneous-flavour-review-a6851056.html |work=The Independent |access-date=11 February 2016 |location=London |date= 11 February 2016}}

|rev4 = Rolling Stone

|rev4score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web |last=Fricke |first=David |title=Wonderful Crazy Night Review |date=5 February 2016 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/elton-john-wonderful-crazy-night-20160205 |publisher=Rolling Stone |access-date=11 February 2016}}

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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.

{{Track listing

| all_writing = Elton John and Bernie Taupin{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/oct/23/elton-john-announces-new-album-wonderful-crazy-night |title=Elton John announces new album Wonderful Crazy Night |work=The Guardian |date=22 October 2015 |access-date=30 October 2015}}

| title1 = Wonderful Crazy Night

| length1 = 3:13

| title2 = In the Name of You

| length2 = 4:33

| title3 = Claw Hammer

| length3 = 4:22

| title4 = Blue Wonderful

| length4 = 3:37

| title5 = I've Got 2 Wings

| length5 = 4:35

| title6 = A Good Heart

| length6 = 4:50

| title7 = Looking Up

| length7 = 4:06

| title8 = Guilty Pleasure

| length8 = 3:38

| title9 = Tambourine

| length9 = 4:17

| title10 = The Open Chord

| length10 = 4:04

| total_length = 41:15

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Deluxe edition bonus tracks

| title11 = Free and Easy

| length11 = 3:55

| title12 = England and America

| length12 = 3:51

| total_length = 49:01

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{{Track listing

| headline = Super deluxe edition bonus tracks

| title11 = Free and Easy

| length11 = 3:55

| title12 = Children's Song

| length12 = 3:49

| title13 = No Monsters

| length13 = 4:58

| title14 = England and America

| length14 = 3:51

| total_length = 57:48

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Target US and Japanese Deluxe edition bonus tracks

| title11 = Free and Easy

| length11 = 3:55

| title12 = England and America

| length12 = 3:51

| title13 = Looking Up

| note13 = live

| length13 = 3:22

| title14 = Wonderful Crazy Night

| note14 = live

| length14 = 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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