Delve in for a rummage and you’ll be rewarded with an unruly collection of 16 wildly different songs, each boasting a big name, from the ultra-modern Young Thug and Nicki Minaj-assisted rap ballad ‘Always Love You’ to the massive ‘Finish Line’, a soulful team-up with his old pal Stevie Wonder. ‘The Lockdown Sessions’ is a sequined grab bag of sounds and styles, more closely resembling a fabulously experimental mixtape than a traditional studio album. Within six years of that encounter, Reg had become Elton, the pair had well-established a world-beating songwriting partnership and would soon unleash upon the globe ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’, their glorious, gargantuan seventh album, a 30million-selling ticket to all-time greatness that Elton has described as “an incredible time” in a life packed with them.įast-forward to 2021 and, rather than resting on his legacy, Elton has ventured deeper than ever before into unchartered sonic territory. It’s some 54 years since aspiring London songwriter Reg Dwight met Lancashire lyricist Bernie Taupin through an advert placed in the New Musical Express by Liberty Records. “God, that’s how I found my career – by fucking NME! That’s the history of my career, the NME.” Having thankfully not taken his own advice 40 years ago, one of the world’s most enduring superstars is in the mood to talk up his collab-packed 32nd studio album ‘The Lockdown Sessions’. Bedecked in a regal red jacket and complementary pink shades, he eventually reflects: “Yeah, I know: we’ve all said shit things in the past, haven’t we?”īehind him, ornate furniture and two enormous oil paintings look like a novelty Zoom backdrop, but are in fact extremely real. “Ha!” the 74-year-old laughs via video call from his palatial home in Windsor, shaking his head and muttering expletives to his younger self. Elton John once said he couldn’t imagine playing rock’n’roll after the age of 35.
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