Album Review: Elton John - Wonderful Crazy Night

You know when commercials for sanitary products or car insurance can't afford the royalties of a big hit so they employ 'sound-a-likes' that skrimp on substance to deliver something naggingly familiar?

So it is with Sir Elton John and Bernie Taupin's quadrillionth collaboration on which Vegas ballroom exuberance is replicated with a lethargic bounciness, delivering nought but B-grade deja vu. The million dollar piano plonks along, Guilty Pleasure goes a bit 'Travelling Wilburys' and there's far too much trundling of big band Americana-isms. The night Elton seems to be having is as tiresome as the garish title and cover art.