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''Leather Jackets'', released in 1986, is the twentieth official album release for Elton John. Recorded at Sol Studios in England and Wisseloord Studios in the Netherlands, it was his first album to not create any top 40 singles in either the US or the UK since 1970's ''Tumbleweed Connection'', which had no singles released from it. It is also the poorest-charting album of his career. ==Background== In 2001 Elton regarded ''Heartache All Over the World'' as the worst song he'd ever recorded, calling it "pretty insubstantial";〔Uncut Magazine, September 2001 "Elton – The Magnificent Showman", page 46〕 in 2006, he would declare ''Jackets'' his least favourite of all his albums, saying "Gus Dudgeon did his best but you can't work with a loony."〔Mojo Magazine "Fantastic Voyage" by Tom Doyle, October 2006 – issue 155, page 90.〕 He would also call its biker-inspired cover "very butch but a total disaster. I was not a well budgie, I was married and it was just one bag of coke after another."〔Elton John – "Sound Your Funky Horn" by Cliff Jones – Mojo Magazine, October 1997.〕 (In spite of this, lyricist Bernie Taupin believes ''The Big Picture'' deserves the honour of worst album〔, and Elton has since come to agree with him). In 2000, Gus Dudgeon said: "There was a chance he could polish himself off. He'd go out and do some coke and it'd be all over his mouth, his nose would be running and I'd go: 'Oh God, this is just awful'."〔Gus Dudgeon interview on "Elton John – Behind the Music", VH1 19 March 2000.〕 "Heartache All Over the World" was the only single to achieve chart success in the US, though it failed to crack the top 50. "Slow Rivers" is a collaboration with Cliff Richard that was released as a single in the UK. Cher collaborated with "Lady Choc Ice" (actually John himself) to write "Don't Trust That Woman". Roger Taylor and John Deacon of Queen play drums and bass guitar respectively on the track "Angeline". John played "Paris" during his 1986 US tour. He included "Heartache All Over the World" and "Slow Rivers" on his 1986 Australian tour with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, which would eventually yield John's live album ''Live in Australia with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra''. "Heartache" was included in the band portion of the show (John opted not to play piano for that number) while "Slow Rivers" was played during the second half of the show with the orchestra. Due to contractual constraints, "Slow Rivers" was not included on ''Live in Australia'', despite the fact that it was from the orchestral portion of the show, which was the basis for the album. Though not released as a single, "Paris" would also, ironically, become a minor FM hit for some jazz stations that programmed the track. This is John's only studio album (from the pre-1993 period) that has yet to be remastered as of 2013; it last appeared on compact disc in the early 90s. However, in 2008, it would become available for digital download. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leather Jackets (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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