Elton John
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119 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Mar 2025
Elton John’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It is in conjunction with promoting the album. So, yeah, that's why we're talking to you guys. We're promoting and flouting. This is so cool for us, you guys. This is really cool. Thank you. Huge fans. I'd like to say hello to Sean, who I haven't seen for years.
Sean, do you owe him money?
Yeah, he was a rent boy when I knew him.
Well... I've been a fan of Brandy and a friend of Brandy's for over 20 years, and her family. Wow. And I've always wanted to record with her. And I had the idea of making the album when the final tour stopped in Europe. I'd already booked the studio in Los Angeles for October 23. And I wanted to desperately make a record with her. I've been a fan of hers for years. She's been a fan of mine.
We included Bernie Taupin in the process, who's been my longtime lyricist, and Andrew Watt, the producer. So there were four of us going into the studio with nothing but self-doubt and hesitation. And... Always for a good album. And when I got to the studio, I was really tired. I was grumpy. I was fairly lethargic.
And for the first few days, it was a hard experience because I was not in a good place. I had so much self-doubt, wondering whether I could shift this album into the way I wanted it to be. And eventually after they put, we filmed every song being written, every take being recorded. So my behavior is there for all to see. And after the first five days, it suddenly clicked.
And people were really supportive of me and my behavior. And they taught me around. And I felt in a good place. And then we just roared. We wrote 14 songs in three. three weeks, and ten weeks for which we made the album. And we started with nothing. So it was probably one of the greatest creative experiences I've ever had. And she is a machine. She is so incredibly inspiring.
I mean, her vocals, she never does a bad vocal. Her phrasing, which I had to harmonize to, was so difficult for me that I actually tore the lyric up and told her to fuck off. He did, he did.
Yeah, nightmare.
You just were like, I'm not doing that? No. I'm not doing that? Yeah, yeah. And then after I tore it up, we had to get it stuck back together again because I was being such an idiot.
No, you go there with some things written sometimes. Brandy does that. She goes in, and I sometimes go into the studio with her. I've had a couple of ideas, but mostly recently I've just written the studio.
It's ten tracks, so we did like an album. Side one finishes with Brandy's solo song. Side two finishes with my solo song. Oh, that's nice. Let Brandy talk a bit.
Right. She's so inspiring, and she's so... You know, I was inspired by her... I've always been inspired by her voice and her writing, but her musicianship. And I think we both inspired each other. That was the whole point of doing the record, to have what we have as artists and then, you know, put it on the other person. And she's quick. I mean, she's really quick.
And she does a vocal in like one take. It's amazing.
And years ago, I bought her an electric guitar because I wanted to push her and nudge her to play electric and get out there and rock a little more. And there's a great side of her that I could see that wasn't coming out. And she, you know, she's great. She loves all sorts of music. And she's broken.
Listen, she sang Joni Mitchell's entire blue album at Disney Hall without a teleprompter, which takes balls of fucking steel, I tell you. And so she's got big, big balls, I tell you. New title for the album. The unfortunate thing is she breaks wind a lot, but that's okay.
Believe me. Yeah, yeah.
She wrote me a letter, and I was aware of her music. I was in Las Vegas doing one of my residences, and she said, would you ever consider playing on a song of mine? And I wrote back and said, or phoned her. I put her phone number, and I said, hey, yeah, if you can come to Vegas, because I'm stuck here, we can do something together. And she came.
and before i even sat at the piano i fell in love with her it was like it was destined to be a friendship that you know it's lasted for years and years and years and gotten better um and it was i love that it was just happenstance or whatever it was um serendipity yeah you know what i have to say the when i met you brandy too i just immediately fell in love with
Yeah, I'm not there yet.
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