Goodbye Yellow Brick Street?
Elton John lately admitted that his latest album left him confronting his mortality – and that he “just broke down for 45 minutes” whereas recording it with Brandi Carlile.
“I wrote a song at the end of the album and I just get the lyrics, Bernie Taupin’s lyrics,” John, 78, defined on the Tuesday, March 25, episode of the “Smartless” podcast.
“I’m writing the verse, like, ‘Oh, this is really pretty,’” he continued. “And then I get to the chorus and of course it’s about my loss of life.”
“When you get to my age, which is near 100, you think, ‘How much time have I got left?’”
The “Rocket Man” singer then admitted that he actually “started thinking about mortality” and in the end obtained emotional for practically an hour after his ideas turned to his husband, David Furnish, 62, and their two sons, Zachary, 14, and Elijah, 12.
“You’ve got children, you’ve got a wonderful husband, you just think about mortality,” he stated in the course of the podcast. “And so when I got to the chorus, I just broke down for 45 minutes – and it’s all on film.”
Carlile, 43, described John’s breakdown as each “really human” and “embarrassing.”
“I want everybody to see it because it’s really human, like deeply flawed and embarrassing,” Carlile informed podcast hosts Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett.
“And the kind of s–t that you do when you forget that there is a camera on is what’s really interesting,” she added.
A video of John’s “tantrum” made the rounds in February, with the Grammy winner calling himself “a nightmare” throughout their studio session.
The “Tiny Dancer” singer’s new collaborative album with Carlile is titled “Who Believes in Angels?” and the file is scheduled to be launched on April 4.
John, who formally confirmed he would by no means tour once more final June, beforehand described the album as “one of the toughest I’ve ever made” and “one of the greatest musical experiences of my life.”
The recording periods had been filmed for the critically acclaimed musical documentary “Elton John: Never Too Late” – which was launched final 12 months.
The track “Never Too Late,” which shall be launched on “Who Believes in Angels?” subsequent month, was additionally lately nominated for Finest Unique Tune on the 97th Academy Awards.
In the meantime, John additionally informed the “Smartless” podcast about his days beginning out as a musician again within the Sixties – and his eventual determination to go solo.
“I never imagined myself as a solo artist,” the “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” hitmaker defined.
He added, “When I was in my group, Bluesology, I took the big risk of going up to Liberty Records saying, ‘I want to write songs, I’m so fed up with playing in a band that doesn’t want to go anywhere, and I can sing too.’”
John’s newest file and his podcast interview each come simply months after the beloved musician revealed how he misplaced his eyesight after creating a severe an infection.
“As some of you may know, I have had issues and now I have lost my sight,” he stated in December in the course of the premiere of his manufacturing “The Devil Wears Prada: The Musical.”
“I haven’t been able to see the performance,” the singer quipped, “but I have enjoyed listening to it.”
