The Lockdown Sessions Elton John

• 1 Hold Me Closer 03:22
• 2 Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) 03:23
• 3 Always Love You 04:17
• 4 Learn To Fly 03:29
• 5 After All 03:27
• 6 Chosen Family 04:39
• 7 The Pink Phantom 04:13
• 8 It's a sin (global reach mix) 04:44
• 9 Nothing Else Matters 06:37
• 10 Orbit 03:28
• 11 Simple Things 04:11
• 12 Beauty In The Bones 03:50
• 13 One Of Me 02:44
• 14 E-Ticket 03:18
• 15 Finish Line 04:24
• 16 Stolen Car 05:37
• 17 I'm Not Gonna Miss You 02:56
• 18 Merry Christmas 03:28
• Total Runtime 01:12:07

Info for The Lockdown Sessions

The Lockdown Sessions is the 32nd studio album by English singer, songwriter, pianist and composer Elton John. The album was recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic after Elton was forced to pause his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour due to the covid-19 pandemic. Three singles were released as a part of this album, they are: "Cold Heart (Pnau remix)" with Dua Lipa, "After All" with Charlie Puth, and "Finish Line" with Stevie Wonder.

The album features previously released tracks "Learn to Fly", released in June 2020; John's duet with Rina Sawayama on her Sawayama album track "Chosen Family"; Gorillaz' track "The Pink Phantom" from their 2020 album Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez that John appears as a guest on alongside 6lack; John's cover of the Pet Shop Boys' "It's a Sin" along with Years & Years, released in May 2021; Miley Cyrus' version of "Nothing Else Matters" featuring John alongside various other guests, released in June 2021 from the Metallica tribute album The Metallica Blacklist; and John's collaboration with Lil Nas X titled "One of Me" from Lil Nas X's debut studio album Montero.

Besides these, the record will also feature collaborations with artists including Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder, Brandi Carlile, Charlie Puth, Stevie Wonder, Nicki Minaj, Young Thug, and Stevie Nicks.

John explained the project in a statement: "Some of the recording sessions had to be done remotely, via Zoom, which I'd obviously never done before. Some of the sessions were recorded under very stringent safety regulations: working with another artist, but separated by glass screens. But 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. And I realised there was something weirdly familiar about working like this. At the start of my career, in the late 60s, I worked as a session musician. Working with different artists during lockdown reminded me of that. I'd come full circle: I was a session musician again. And it was still a blast."

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Dua Lipa
Nicki Minaj
Charlie Puth
Chosen
6LACK
Years & Years
WATT
Yo-Yo Ma
SG Lewis
Brandi Carlile
Eddie Vedder
Stevie Wonder
Stevie Nicks
Glen Campbell

Elton John
The monumental career of international singer/songwriter and performer Elton John has spanned more than five decades. He is one of the top-selling solo artists of all time, achieving 35 gold and 25 platinum albums, and he has had 29 consecutive US Top 40 hits. Elton has sold more than 250 million records worldwide, and holds the record for the biggest selling single of all time, ‘Candle in the Wind ’97’, which sold over 33 million copies. Since his career began in 1969, Elton has played over 3,000 concerts worldwide.

In 1970 Elton's self-titled breakthrough album and evergreen hit ‘Your Song’ introduced him to an international stage, and in the period between 1970-76 with producer Gus Dudgeon at the helm, Elton and his song writing partner Bernie Taupin they made an astonishing fourteen albums, including the legendary’ Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,’ and ‘Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy’ - the first album ever to enter the Billboard Chart at Number One.

In the 1980s he had hits with the albums ‘21 At 3’, ‘Jump Up!’ and ‘Too Low For Zero’ - the home of two of Elton's live favourites, ‘I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues’ and ‘I'm Still Standing’.

Five decades since the 1969 release of his first album, ‘Empty Sky’, Elton John is creating some of the finest music of his career. The 2001 album ‘Songs From The West Coast’ gave him another smash hit single with ‘I Want Love’. In 2002 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Royal Academy of Music. Other landmark awards include Best British Male Artist Brit Award 1991; induction into the Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame in 1994; five Grammy Awards 1986-2000; Grammy Legend Award, 2001; Kennedy Center Honor, 2004; 11 Ivor Novello Awards between 1973 and 2000; and in 1998, a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II.

2007 saw the release of ‘Rocket Man - The Definitive Hits’, a single CD album which features eighteen classic hit songs. Also in 2007, for the first time ever, Elton's entire back catalogue of nearly 500 tracks (90 singles and 32 albums) became available to download legally. The release of ‘Rocket Man’ marked a huge anniversary for Elton - on March 25th, 2007, he celebrated his 60th birthday while breaking his own record with an unmatched 60th concert at the legendary Madison Square Garden in New York. No other entertainer has come close to matching this record.

Elton remains committed to his music and to touring, becoming more rather than less busy as time passes. In 2011 Elton returned to The Colosseum, Caesars Palace, Las Vegas with his all-new show, ‘The Million Dollar Piano’. In 2012 he returned to the recording studio with producer T Bone Burnett and toured North, Central and South America. His 2012 plans include a tour of Europe plus a special appearance at The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee concert at Buckingham Palace.

This album contains no booklet.