Leather Jackets (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Leather Jackets
Type = Album
Artist = Elton John


Released = November 1986
Recorded = January, June-July, September 1986
Genre = Pop, Soft rock
Length = 45:02
Label = Geffen (US/Canada) Rocket Records
Producer = Gus Dudgeon
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|1.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:bnk9kept7q79 link] |
Last album = "Ice on Fire" (1985)
This album = "Leather Jackets" (1986)
Next album = "Elton John live in Australia with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra" (1987)

"Leather Jackets" is the twentieth studio album by British singer/songwriter Elton John, recorded at Sol Studios and released in 1986. It was his first album to not create any top forty singles in either the US or the UK since 1970's "Tumbleweed Connection", which had not had any singles released from it at all. It is also the poorest-charting album of John's career. In 2006, Elton John declared this his least favorite of all his albums, while lyricist Bernie Taupin believes "The Big Picture" deserves that honour.Fact|date=March 2007

Roger Taylor and John Deacon of Queen play drums and bass guitar respectively on the track "Angeline".

This was John's last studio release to be produced by Dudgeon.

Track listing

All songs by John/Taupin, except where noted.

ide one

# "Leather Jackets" – 4:10
# "Hoop of Fire" – 4:14
# "Don't Trust That Woman" (Cher/Lady Choc Ice (Elton John)) – 4:58
# "Go It Alone" – 4:26
# "Gypsy Heart" – 4:46

ide two

# "Slow Rivers" (Duet with Cliff Richard) – 3:06
# "Heartache All Over the World" – 3:52
# "Angeline" (John/Taupin/Alan Carvell) – 3:24
# "Memory of Love" (John/Gary Osborne) – 4:08
# "Paris" – 3:58
# "I Fall Apart" – 4:00

Personnel

*Produced by Gus Dudgeon
*Engineered by Graham Dickson
*Mastered by Greg Fulginiti US

*Albert Boekholt - Emulator Vocals
*Alan Carvell - Backing Vocals
*John Deacon Bass
*Kiki Dee - Backing Vocals
*Graham Dickson - Electronic Percussion
*Gus Dudgeon - Electronic Percussion, Drum Programming
*Elton John - Piano, Yamaha GS1, JX8P, Vocals
*Davey Johnstone - Guitars, Backing Vocals
*Katie Kissoon - Backing Vocals
*Shirley Lewis - Backing Vocals
*Jody Linscott - Percussion, Tambourine
*Fred Mandel - Piano, Jupiter 8, JX8P, Synthesizers, Rhodes, Programming
*Dave Mattacks - Drums
*Charlie Morgan - Drums, Electronic Percussion
*Gordon Neville - Backing Vocals
*David Paton - Bass
*Frank Ricotti - Percussion
*Cliff Richard - Vocals
*Roger Taylor - Drums
*Paul Westwood - Bass
*Pete Wingfield - Backing Vocals

B-sides