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1975 studio album by Elton John
Rock of the Westies
Studio album by
Elton John
Released
20 October 1975[1]
Recorded
June–July 1975
Studio
Caribou Ranch, Nederland, Colorado; remixed at Trident, London
Genre
Rock
soft rock
rock and roll[2]
Length
43:39
Label
MCA (US), DJM (UK)
Producer
Gus Dudgeon
Elton John chronology
Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975)
Rock of the Westies (1975)
Here and There (1976)
Singles from Rock of the Westies
"Island Girl" Released: 29 September 1975
"Grow Some Funk of Your Own" / "I Feel Like a Bullet (in the Gun of Robert Ford)" Released: 12 January 1976
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source
Rating
AllMusic
[3]
Christgau's Record Guide
A−[4]
Rolling Stone
(not rated)[5]
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]
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]
^"RIAA". Recording Industry Association of America.
^"Rock of the Westies - Elton John | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.
^Planer, Lindsay. "Rock of the Westies". AllMusic. Retrieved 11 January 2012.
^Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: J". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved 27 February 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
^Holden, Stephen (18 December 1975). "Rock of the Westies". Rolling Stone.
^"BPI".
^"10 Fun Facts About 'Rock Of The Westies' and 'The Big Picture'". Elton John.
^"Pazz & Jop 1975: Dean's List". Robert Christgau. 29 December 1975. Retrieved 11 January 2012.
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