| Product Summary | | Label: Interscope Records | | UPC: 00602517064225 | | Release Date: 9/19/2006 | | Buy.com Sku: 202926863 | | Item#: M36337 | Format:  CD |
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(P) 2006 Mercury Records Limited
(C) 2006 Mercury Records Limited
| This 2006 sequel to Elton John's revered 1975 outing, Captain Fantastic & The Brown Dirt Cowboy, finds the erstwhile Reginald Dwight (the Captain) looking back on the decades between the two albums with his longtime writing partner, Bernie Taupin (the Kid). Continuing the earlier record's autobiographical themes, The Captain & The Kid is highly charged with emotion (see "Tinderbox" for a close examination of John and Taupin's up-and-down professional relationship), and the British pop icon unveils some of his most powerfully moving and beautifully spare vocal and piano performances in years, which can be sampled on the poignant, achingly minimal single "The Bridge." This introspective atmosphere stands in sharp contrast to John's giddy turn on the Scissor Sisters' Bee-Gees-like "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'," which topped the U.K. charts shortly before The Captain's release, and helped to prove that he remains a vital and dynamic musician more than 30 years into his incredibly accomplished career.
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Elton John (vocals, piano); Davey Johnstone (guitar, banjo, mandolin, harmonica, background vocals); Guy Babylon (keyboards); Nigel Olsson (drums, background vocals); John Mahon (percussion, background vocals); Bob Birch, Matt Still (background vocals). | | Audio Mixer: Matt Still. | | Recording information: Center Stage, Atlanta, GA. | | Director: Bob Halley. | | Photographers: Mark Weiss; Herb Ritts; Peter Lindbergh; David P. Bailey; Patrick Demarchelier; Terry O'Neill; Greg Gorman; Juergen Teller; Philip Ollerenshaw; Emerson Loew; Bryan Forbes; Barry Morgenstein; Jill Furmanovsky; Michael Ross. | | Unknown Contributor Roles: Sian Rance; Nadine Levy; Emil Dacanay. | | Arranger: Guy Babylon. | | This 2006 sequel to Elton John's revered 1975 outing, CAPTAIN FANTASTIC & THE BROWN DIRT COWBOY, finds the erstwhile Reginald Dwight (the Captain) looking back on the decades between the two albums with his longtime writing partner, Bernie Taupin (the Kid). Continuing the earlier record's autobiographical themes, THE CAPTAIN & THE KID is highly charged with emotion (see "Tinderbox" for a close examination of John and Taupin's up-and-down professional relationship), and the British pop icon unveils some of his most powerfully moving and beautifully spare vocal and piano performances in years, which can be sampled on the poignant, achingly minimal single "The Bridge." This introspective atmosphere stands in sharp contrast to John's giddy turn on the Scissor Sisters' Bee-Gees-like "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'," which topped the U.K. charts shortly before THE CAPTAIN's release, and helped to prove that he remains a vital and dynamic musician more than 30 years into his incredibly accomplished career. |
Producer: Elton John; Matt Still; Elton John; Matt Still |
Engineer: Matt Still |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 09/19/2006 | | Original Release Date : 2006 | | Catalog ID : 7545 | | Label : Interscope Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00602517064225 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (p.68)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "The songs are precision instruments, from the honky-tonk pop of 'Just Like Noah's Ark' to pristine ballads like the title track."Entertainment Weekly (p.93)
- "EJ's best since the Carter years....This really does pick up where John and lyricist Bernie Taupin left off." -- Grade: A- Q (p.122)
- Ranked #28 in Q Magazine's "100 Greatest Albums of 2006" -- "[T]he songs were at once grand and intimate..." Mojo (Publisher)
(p.98)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "THE CAPTAIN AND THE KID has the sort of narrative weight seldom found elsewhere today....Elton still has the ability to write a brilliant four-minute pop song." |
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| | Bio | | From his beginnings as a sensitive singer and pianist through his ascent to superstardom, Elton John has enjoyed one of the longest and most successful careers in rock & roll. With his outrageous costumes and campy theatricality, the man formerly known as Reginald Dwight typified 1970s rock in all its excess. During the '80s, he temporarily parted ways with songwriting partner Bernie Taupin and updated his sound, while struggling to redefine himself. By the '90s, he had reemerged as an elder statesman, achieving worldwide popularity once again.
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