The Captain & the Kid
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| Released | 18 September 2006 | |||
| Recorded | Spring 2006 | |||
| Studio | Center Staging, Atlanta | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 45:59 | |||
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The Captain & the Kid is the twenty-eighth studio album by English musician Elton John, released in 2006. It is his second autobiographical album with lyricist Bernie Taupin, picking up where Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975) left off. The Captain & the Kid chronicles the events in their lives over the intervening three decades.
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 69/100 |
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| Entertainment Weekly | A− |
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| PopMatters | 4/10 |
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The Captain & the Kid reached No. 6 on the UK Albums Chart, a considerable improvement over the performance of John's preceding Peachtree Road in 2004, which peaked at No. 21. Captain reached No. 18 on the US Billboard 200, before quickly falling off the charts. At concerts in early 2007, John made clear his dissatisfaction with Interscope Records' promotion of the album, having threatened to terminate his contract with the label and because of that, John did not release a solo album until 2013's The Diving Board.