“Maybe he was intimidated”
“SG Lewis had first proposed something very ‘eltonjohniano’ to me, he laughs,” perhaps he was intimidated or was afraid of insulting me. Then we ended up reaching what we were looking for “, confides the musician with more than 300 million records sold.
“The Lockdown Sessions” brings together songs composed for his album but also for the albums of other artists, such as Gorillaz or even “The Metallica Blacklist”, the album tribute to the hard rock group in the wake of the thirty years of the “Black Album”.
Elton John performs the Metallica smash hit “Nothing Else Matters” opposite Miley Cyrus, Robert Trujillo (bassist of the group) and Chad Smith (drums of Red Hot Chili Peppers).
“The idea was to start and finish on the piano, when the song is actually composed for the guitar. It’s another way of looking at it, it’s fun,” he explains.
Metallica frontman James Hetfield recently explained his reaction in an interview broadcast by Apple Music.
Elton John was zoomed in and suddenly he goes off and on: ‘Nothing Else Matters is one of the most beautiful melodies, one of the best love ballads ever written.’
James Hetfield, frontman of Metallica
“I said to myself, ‘I don’t believe this guy said this!’ (…) It’s a huge compliment, “he said.
“Captain Fantastic”, as Elton John nicknamed himself after one of his great albums of the 70s, he admits that he likes to remember his time as a “studio musician”. Like when he played with the Hollies, a British group from the 60s, in the famous London studios of Abbey Road.
After so many years, he still considers himself a music bulimic. He has starred in podcasts on Apple Music, DJing and commenting on music like a disc jockey. And now he would like to collaborate with Billie Eilish: “It has amazed me, it is magnificent to see a flower become such a beautiful tree, but for the moment it is tracing its own path”.