Item description for Elton John ( Reg Strikes Back )

Detailed item info

Album Features
UPC:	076732624029
Artist:	Elton John
Format:	CD
Release Year:	1990
Record Label:	MCA (USA)
Genre:	Rock & Pop

Track Listing
1. Town of Plenty
2. A Word in Spanish
3. Pt. 2 Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters
4. I Don't Wanna Go on with You Like That
5. Japanese Hands
6. Goodbye Marlon Brando
7. The Camera Never Lies
8. Heavy Traffic
9. Poor Cow
10. Since God Invented Girls

Details
Playing Time:	41 min.
Contributing Artists:	Pete Townshend, Freddie Hubbard, Carl Wilson, Bruce Johnston
Producer:	Chris Thomas, Julie Moss
Distributor:	n/a
Recording Type:	Studio
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Personnel: Elton John (vocals, keyboards); Pete Townshend, Davey Johnstone (guitar); Freddie Hubbard (trumpet, flugelhorn); Fred Mandel (synthesizer); David Paton (bass); Charlie Morgan (drums); Ray Cooper (percussion); Adrian Baker, Bruce Johnston, Carl Wilson (background vocals).Recorded at Air Studios, London, England.Digitally remastered by Gus Dudgeon.Personnel: Elton John (vocals, harmonium, keyboards, background vocals); Davey Johnstone (guitar, background vocals); Pete Townshend (guitar); Freddie Hubbard (trumpet, flugelhorn); Fred Mandel (synthesizer); Charlie Morgan (drums); Ray Cooper (maracas, tambourine, timbales); Adrian Baker, Nigel Olsson, Carl Wilson , Dee Murray, Bruce Johnston (background vocals).Liner Note Author: Andy Simmons.Recording information: Air Studios, London, England; Circle SevenRecording Studios; Record Plant; WEstside Studios.Photographer: Gered Mankowitz.Shortly after his 41st birthday, Elton John (a.k.a. Reg Dwight), released REG STRIKES BACK. At this particular juncture in life, the decision was made to auction off all costumes and props collected and worn at shows over the years. Using the layout of these items as an album cover, the contents within proved to be EJ's most successful album of the late '80s. Driven by the elegantly wrought "A Word In Spanish" and the pounding piano of "I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That," REG found Elton John sounding no worse for wear, surrounded by an assortment of guests.Along with old stalwarts Davey Johnstone, Dee Murray and Nigel Olsson, guests included Pete Townshend on "Town Of Plenty," jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard on "Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters (Part Two)" and Beach Boys Bruce Johnston and Carl Wilson, providing harmonies for "Since God Invented Girls." After a brief health scare resulting in surgery to remove nodules from his vocal chords, REG STRIKES BACK marked Elton John's robust return to good health and great music-making.