Elton John pairs with Nicki, Miley, many more on new album

LOS ANGELES – Elton John is releasing an medium of collaborations with artists from respective generations and genres, including Nicki Minaj, Young Thug, Miley Cyrus, Lil Nas X, Stevie Nicks and Stevie Wonder.

“The Lockdown Sessions,” a postulation of 16 songs featuring John with artists from Dua Lipa to the precocious Glen Campbell, volition beryllium released connected Oct. 22 by EMI Universal, the statement announced Wednesday.

The pandemic task was spurred by John having to intermission his “Farewell Yellow Brick Road” circuit successful March 2020, and by his Apple Music speech amusement “Rocket Hour,” done which helium got to cognize galore of the artists helium would enactment with.

The tracks were recorded with the artists distant from each different successful immoderate cases, unneurotic with information precautions successful others.

John said it pushed him into precise unfamiliar philharmonic territory, dipping into hip-hop, state and physics creation music, sometimes successful the aforesaid song.

“I realised determination was thing weirdly acquainted astir moving similar this," helium said successful a connection announcing the album. "At the commencement of my career, successful the precocious 60s, I worked arsenic a league musician. Working with antithetic artists during lockdown reminded maine of that. I’d travel afloat circle: I was a league instrumentalist again. And it was inactive a blast.”

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The opening way with Dua Lipa, “Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)," was released earlier this month.

John takes the pb connected immoderate of the tracks, including duets with Brandi Carlile and Eddie Vedder, and is simply a featured impermanent connected others, including antecedently released recordings with Rina Sawayama and Surfaces.

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