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Elton John - The Captain and the Kid.

I recently found this in a thrift store and my heart leapt - as I'd never heard of this before but by the title I knew it must be a follow-up to Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy - one of my favourite albums of all time.

And indeed that's what it was.

Although it was nowhere as magical and majestic or as interesting as the original, this album starts out pretty good for the first 3 or 4 songs before falling back into the unoriginal musicianship of Elton Johns latest works. I just think he got lazy as he got older.

I think you need to be hungry to create interesting works .. complacency is not the breeding ground for genius.

Oh well, a couple of nice tunes in the beginning .. enough to make it a far better album than anything he's done in decades.

Yes youngsters, in the 70's - Elton John was badass .. but I'm sad to say... The Bitch is not quite Back.