![]() I’d come full circle: I was a session musician again. Working with different artists during lockdown reminded me of that. ![]() At the start of my career, in the late 60s, I worked as a session musician. “And I realised there was something weirdly familiar about working like this. ![]() “All the tracks I worked on were really interesting and diverse, stuff that was completely different to anything I’m known for, stuff that took me out of my comfort zone into completely new territory,” he said. In a statement, John said the album came from finding himself working on features during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pop legend began teasing his list of collaborators on his Instagram Story on August 31, listing artists from Brandi Carlile to Nicki Minaj to Stevies Wonder and Nicks. ![]() Now, John is collecting those performances - along with ten new ones - on an album, The Lockdown Sessions, out October 22. Many musicians have been doing just that recently, as Elton John tapped them to work on new collaborations, from his remake of “Chosen Family” with Rina Sawayama to his cover of Pet Shop Boys’ “It’s a Sin” with Years & Years at the Brit Awards to remixes of his songs “Rocket Man” and “Sacrifice” with Dua Lipa and PNAU. Photo: Michael Kovac/Getty Images for EJAF
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