The Lockdown Sessions Elton John
The English singer-songwriter Elton John barely needs introducing, but lockdown recently reintroduced him to something he had long left behind: being a session musician working on other people’s records. Those people this time around include Dua Lipa, Charlie Puth and Nicki Minaj.
FIVE FACTS:
1. This new album comprises a series of collaborations that came together via email and Zoom calls.
2. “I suddenly thought, ‘Oh my god, I’m a session musician,’” John recently recalled to Apple Music about an epiphany he had when making the album.
3. John has described Lipa as “the most professional, brilliant, well-rehearsed, humble, fabulous, glamorous, beautiful person.”
4. John enthused that, on the track “Finish Line”, Stevie Wonder “produced something very special that Stevie Wonder fans haven’t heard for…