Rock of the Westies

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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]