The Captain & the Kid The Captain & the Kid The Captain & the Kid is the twenty-eighth studio album by British singer-songwriter Elton John, released in 2006. It is his second autobiographical album with lyricist Bernie Taupin, picking up where 1975's "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy" left off. "The Captain & the Kid" chronicles the events in their lives over those subsequent 30 years. "The Captain & the Kid" reached No. 6 in the UK, a considerable improvement over the performance of John's preceding "Peachtree Road" in 2004, which peaked at No. 21. It reached No. 18 in the US, before quickly
Blue Moves during them, probably because the song's acoustic, delicate sound did not fit with the more rock 'n' roll approach of the rest of the songs that made the "Westies" final track list.) The Beach Boys turned down "Chameleon" (which was written two years prior to the album's release), but Bruce Johnston, a former Beach Boy, performed backing vocals on John's version along with Toni Tennille. John also performed the song at Wembley Stadium in 1975, where he also performed the "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy" album in its entirety. An excerpt from "Out of the Blue" was used