Rock of the Westies
1975 studio album by Elton John / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Rock of the Westies is the tenth studio album by English musician Elton John, released on 24 October 1975.[6] The title is a spoonerism on the phrase "West of the Rockies", the album having been recorded at Caribou Ranch in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.[7]
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Released | 20 October 1975[1] | |||
Recorded | June–July 1975 | |||
Studio | Caribou Ranch, Nederland, Colorado; remixed at Trident, London | |||
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Length | 43:39 | |||
Label | MCA (US), DJM (UK) | |||
Producer | Gus Dudgeon | |||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [3] |
Christgau's Record Guide | A−[4] |
Rolling Stone | (not rated)[5] |
Released less than five months after his previous album, Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, Rock of the Westies repeated that album's then-unprecedented feat of entering the US Billboard 200 chart at number one, and was John's final chart-topping studio album in that country. It was also successful (albeit to a lesser extent) in the artist's home territory of the UK, where it reached No. 5 on the UK Albums Chart. Robert Christgau ranked it as No. 7 on his list of the best albums of 1975.[8]