Reg Strikes Back

Infobox Album |
Name = Reg Strikes Back
Type = Album
Artist = Elton John


Released = June 1988
Recorded = 1987-88
Genre = Pop, Rock
Length = 41:54
Label = Rocket MCA Records (US/Canada)
Producer = Chris Thomas
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:1jd6vwrva9yk link] |
Last album = "Elton John live in Australia with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra"
(1987)
This album = "Reg Strikes Back"
(1988)
Next album = "Sleeping with the Past"
(1989)

"Reg Strikes Back" is the twenty-first studio album by British singer/songwriter Elton John, released in 1988. It was his self-proclaimed comeback album, and his own way of fighting back against bad press. The "Reg" in "Reg Strikes Back" refers to Elton John's birth name, Reginald Kenneth Dwight. This is the last album that bassist Dee Murray would appear on. He died in 1992. The tracks "I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That" and "A Word In Spanish" peaked at #2 and #19 on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively.

Elton John does not play a grand piano on this album, replacing it with a Roland RD-1000 digital piano, a mainstay of the Elton sound until 1994.

Track listing

All songs by John/Taupin, except where noted.

ide one

#"Town of Plenty" – 3:40
#"A Word in Spanish" – 4:39
#"Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters (Part Two)" – 4:12
#"I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That" – 4:36
#"Japanese Hands" – 4:40

ide two

#"Goodbye Marlon Brando" – 3:30
#"The Camera Never Lies" – 4:37
#"Heavy Traffic" (Elton John, Taupin and Davey Johnstone) – 3:28
#"Poor Cow" – 3:50
#"Since God Invented Girls" – 4:39

Bonus tracks (1998 CD reissue)

#"Rope Around a Fool" – 3:48
#"I Don't Wanna Go on with You Like That (Shep Pettibone Mix)" – 7:16
#"I Don't Wanna Go on with You Like That (Just Elton and the Piano Mix)" – 4:37
#"Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters (Part Two) (The Renaissance Mix)" – 6:19

B-sides

Personnel

*Elton John: keyboards, Vocals
*Ray Cooper: Tambourine, Maracas, Timbales
*Freddie Hubbard: Trumpet, Flugelhorn
*Davey Johnstone: guitars, Backing Vocals
*Fred Mandel: Synthesizer
*Charlie Morgan: drums
*Dee Murray: Backing Vocals
*Nigel Olsson: Backing Vocals
*David Paton: Bass
*Pete Townshend: Guitar