“I’ve just made a very personal record with one of my biggest
influences, a man called Leon Russell who was the greatest player,
piano player, when I grew up, in the late 60s and 70s. It’s an album
that I’m very proud of. It’s not coming out ’til October.”
influences, a man called Leon Russell who was the greatest player,
piano player, when I grew up, in the late 60s and 70s. It’s an album
that I’m very proud of. It’s not coming out ’til October.”
“All I wanted for Leon is to have, in his later life, the accolades
that seem to have been missing for him in the last 35 years,”
explains Elton John. “I want his name written in stone. I want
him in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I want his name to be on
everybody’s lips again, like it used to be. So we made this record.”