Album · 1986
Leather Jackets
by Elton John
Leather Jackets is an album by Elton John, released in 1986 on EMI, with 11 tracks.
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11 tracks · 46 min
Album · 1986
by Elton John
Leather Jackets is an album by Elton John, released in 1986 on EMI, with 11 tracks.
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11 tracks · 46 min
Leather Jackets is the 20th studio album by British singer/songwriter Elton John, recorded at Sol Studios in England and Wisseloord Studios in the Netherlands, and released in 1986. 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. In 2006, John declared this his least favourite of all his albums: "Gus Dudgeon did his best but you can't work with a loony." He's also been quoted as saying there were some records where he was "not together at all" and cited this album as an example. With its biker cover, he said it was "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." In 2001 Elton regarded Heartache All Over the World as the worst song he'd ever recorded, calling it "pretty insubstantial". 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'." However, lyricist Bernie Taupin believes The Big Picture de…