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Elton John: ‘When we heard ‘Music from Big Pink’ it changed our life’ – Music News

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On a new episode of Elton John’s Rocket Hour on Apple Music 1, Elton sits down with his husband and Canadian-native David Furnish for a Canada Special. The two talk about Canada’s incredible depth of talent, from Leonard Cohen to Joni Mitchell, k.d. lang, Ruth B and more.

Elton John and David Furnish on “Everybody Knows” and Leonard Cohen being the greatest lyricist ever

Elton John: ‘Leonard Cohen is Canadian, was Canadian. I’ve always loved Leonard Cohen right from the word go. Bernie and I used to sit there with our headphones on when we first met and listened to his albums and his poetry. For me, I think he’s probably the greatest lyric writer ever. I know a lot of people would say, “No, Bob Dylan.” But I don’t know, something about Cohen and Joni Mitchell, who’s also a Canadian, that all three of them are just amazing lyric writers. This song [“Everybody Knows”], you chose. Why did you choose this song?’

David Furnish: ‘To me, it’s just quintessential Leonard Cohen, his vocal style, the deep, deep voice, the amazing lyrics. You and I had the honor of seeing him on his last tour, his final tour, down in the South of France. The man’s talent and his originality is just staggering.’

Elton John: ‘It was like a religious experience. It was one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen.’

Elton John and David Furnish on getting to know Joni Mitchell and her masterpiece album ‘Blue’

Elton John: ‘Joni Mitchell. Well, what can we say about Joni Mitchell? We’ve had the privilege, both you and I, to get to know Joni over the last two years, go to her house, have sing songs. She came to our screening. We went to the concert that Brandi Carlile did of ‘Blue.’ We’ve seen a lot of her in her recovery because she had a horrible aneurysm. It’s taken her a long haul of rehabilitation. Now she’s singing and painting again. Probably one of the nicest things in the last two years of our life has been spending time with her, right?’

David Furnish: ‘Amazing and a real testament to her spirit as a human being that she recovered. She was not expected to recover. It’s music and it’s the sing songs and everyone coming around to her house that’s brought her back to life.’

Elton John: She is certainly one of the most magical people I’ve ever met and certainly probably one of the most talented people I’ve ever met. The concert we went to see at the Disney Hall in Los Angeles that Brandi Carlile sang the whole of ‘Blue,‘ which is probably one of the best albums ever, and sang it all the way through without a teleprompter. I said she was crazy.’

David Furnish: ‘With Joni in the audience watching her.’

Elton John: ‘And with Joni sitting next to me. I chose this track from ‘Blue’ because it’s such a sad song in a way. It’s “Little Green.” It’s about the child that Joni Mitchell gave up for adoption in 1965. The whole album ‘Blue,’ if you don’t know and you don’t own ‘Blue,’ then you must get it for your record collection.’

David Furnish: ‘It’s a masterpiece.’

Elton John: ‘It is a masterpiece.’

Elton John on Canada’s incredible depth of talent and Rush

‘We put this show together quite quickly, and there’s so many great Canadian artists that we left out. We’re going to have to do another two shows to get them all in. It just shows you what an incredible depth of talent. In fact, we did the show, and then I laid awake in the middle of the night thinking, “Oh my God, we left out Bryan Adams, Alanis Morissette. We left out Justin Bieber. We left out Shawn Mendez.” It just went on and on. Cowboy Junkies, Tragically Hip, Ron Sexsmith, and it just went on and on and on. So there will be another Canadian show very, very soon. I think it’s very important to follow it up quite quickly.’

‘Right now, we’re going to the most legendary Canadian band of all time, Rush. This is a song called Tom Sawyer. It’s inspired obviously by Tom Twain’s 1876 novel, ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.’ The legendary drummer and lyricist Neil Peart passed away last year, and it was such a tragedy because I think most musicians considered him to be one of the definitive drummers in the band. Rush sold so many records and continued to do so. I want to play this track to pay tribute to them and to Neil.’

Elton John on the importance of The Band to him

Elton John: ‘The Band, as anyone knows about Elton John and Bernie Taupin songwriters, The Band… When we heard ‘Music from Big Pink,’ it changed our life. [Chest Fever] comes from that album. God, I could’ve chosen so many songs from The Band, but I love this one because of Garth Hudson’s incredible intro work on the organ. Were you a fan of The Band? A bit early for you.’

David Furnish: ‘I wasn’t into The Band. It wasn’t until I was with you and you started talking about how important they were to you and Bernie and what an influence they were in your songwriting that I went back and checked it out. Of course, you and I, we see Robbie Robertson every time we’re in LA for Oscar time. What an extraordinary band. I feel bad that I didn’t get on them earlier.’

Elton John: ‘It was before your time in a way, but their music is so timeless. ‘

Elton John and David Furnish on k.d. lang being one of the best singers

Elton John: ‘We’re ending with one of the greatest singers of all time in my opinion, and a great friend, and a great girl, k.d. lang. Tell me about k.d. lang.

David Furnish: Oh my god, well, I think you’re right. k.d. lang has the best singing voice of any woman alive today. She sang this at an Elton John AIDS Foundation benefit for us in New York and it was about as close to a religious experience, seeing someone live as I’ve ever seen in my life. Her vocal talent on [“Hallelujah”] is unbelievable.’

Elton John: ‘Definitely one of the greatest and one of the greatest songs. She’s chosen the Leonard Cohen song “Hallelujah” and it’s taken from her covers album ‘Hymns of the 49th Parallel’ where she just covers Canadian songs. And if you don’t have that album, it’s as good an album as ‘Blue’, if you want to hear great Canadian songs.’



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Ellie Goulding reveals the chorus on her Silk City collaboration ‘New Love’ was ‘switched around’ – Music News

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The pop star joined forces with Mark Ronson and Diplo on the disco-pop banger and has spilled that the chorus became just the middle-eight and she’s pleased with how it turned out.

Speaking to Capital Dance, Ellie said: “The chorus is not the chorus on the original. So the original goes, ‘If you could see me now. I’ve got a feeling…’ That was definitely in the wrong key … but that was the chorus and now it’s just the middle-eight … but they switched it around and I was quite happy with it.”

Meanwhile, the ‘On My Mind’ singer released her latest album, ‘Brightest Blue’, last summer and explained the title is inspired by her belief she can “prosper in sadder times”.

She said: “Blue is quite a joyful colour considering it’s associated with being depressed and down in the dumps.
“There definitely is a melancholy tone to the album with the lyrics and it’s certainly not like, ‘Let’s all forget our problems.’

“It’s kind of my way of having this illumination that felt like I could prosper in the sadder times. That’s what I’ve always managed to do – to get myself out of those sad times by writing and by getting my feelings out.”

The record marked the ‘Love Me Like You Do’ hitmaker’s first in five years and she admitted she didn’t feel “emotionally equipped” to make an album in that time.

She said: “There definitely were certain things that set me back. I felt like I was in a place where the songs were not reaching, they weren’t strong enough in my opinion.

“So I waited until I was properly ready and emotionally equipped.

“I also had technical stuff, like a change of management, I moved back to London and I got married. So lots of things happened in that time and it’s only really now that I feel like I’m completely ready to embrace that life again.”



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Rag ‘n’ Bone Man won’t release new track as a single as it provokes too much ‘misery’ – Music News

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The ‘Human’ hitmaker’s latest album, ‘Life by Misadventure’, features a ballad called ‘Talking to Myself’, and the singer thinks it’s a very “selfish” track and its tone isn’t what the world needs right now.

He told The Sunday Times Culture Magazine: “I was drinking too much when I wrote that. Which made me feel sorry for myself. I love the song, but listening back it is a bit ‘me, me, me’. Selfish sod!

“I have unequivocally told my label not to release it as a single. No one needs that much misery at the moment.”

The track was the only song on the record inspired by the end of the 35-year-old star’s marriage to Beth Rouy, who he split from just six months after they tied the knot in 2019.

He said: “I told myself no love songs or break-up songs this time. Then I went mental in one room for a while and let that one sneak in.

“Who isn’t bored of break-up songs? They’re everywhere these days.

“When gigs get going again, I don’t want to be standing next to a pianist on stage, looking all sad. I want to be at festivals, kicking arse and making people dance.”

Much of the record was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, and the singer admitted being in the home of country music changed his work.

He said: “I didn’t go to make country music, but the storytelling tradition of the city changed me. I said stuff to strangers in writing rooms there which I wouldn’t have dreamt of here.”



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Britney Spears’ lawyer argues giving her dad more conservatorship power would be ‘highly detrimental’ – Music News

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Britney Spears’ lawyer has argued that giving her father Jamie more power in her conservatorship would be “highly detrimental” to the singer.

The Toxic star is currently locked in a legal battle against her dad to have him permanently removed from her conservatorship, after he was placed in control over her life following her public breakdown in 2008.

In the latest development in the case, Britney’s lawyer Samuel Ingham has claimed that “it would be highly detrimental to Britney’s interest” to give Jamie any more control over her estate.

The comment comes after Jamie submitted a proposed order to the court, in which he argued that he has lost some of his powers since he and Bessemer Trust became co-conservators of Britney’s estate in November.

But Ingham argued that if Jamie had his way, he would have the power to select his own “professional investment advisors” separate from Bessemer Trust.

“It is difficult to imagine a better recipe for conflict between the co-conservators and confusion with both Britney and third parties,” he said. “Ultimately, the appointment of Bessemer Trust would be rendered meaningless.”

He added that he believes Jamie is trying to ensure that Bessemer will never become the sole conservator of Britney’s estate – something the Gimme More star had requested at the beginning of the legal battle.

Ingham wants to revisit the possibility of Bessemer becoming a sole conservator in the future. The next hearing in the case is set for Thursday.



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Foo Fighters’ latest album ‘Medicine at Midnight’ explores ‘different territory’ – Music News

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The new record – the follow up to 2017’s ‘Concrete and Gold’ – was recorded entirely in a rented house in Los Angeles and producer Greg Kurstin says it gave them the chance to experiment.

He explained: “We got to really experiment with all these weird locations in the house — we’d set up the drums in the living room or, for ‘Shame Shame’, in the stairwell in like a three-foot-by-three-foot space. We played with the sounds, trying the guitar amp in one room or the snare drum in another; the mixing console was up in the bedroom. … You’d arrive at the house and some people would be hanging outside. We had a kitchen there. It was really fun to have this relaxed environment.

“You could hear Taylor Hawkins through the floorboards. But sonically, it was really cool — the way that the drums reflect off the sofa; and the picture on the wall; and the railing; going up the stairs, where we positioned the mic. … All those little things gave it a unique drum sound, which you can’t really get anywhere else.”

And Greg revealed drums played a huge part in the new album.

He told Variety: “I feel like we’ve gotten to some different territory on this album. In my experience from the last one, Dave would bring in a guitar riff and that would be the seed of a song; we develop it from that. But this one was coming from the drums a lot. Like ‘Shame Shame’ started as a drum groove. Dave would say, ‘I want to do something like this,’ and he’d drum on his legs with his hands, or sort of sing the beat. Then he would develop that into this amazing song. It was really cool to see that evolution. There’s almost a dance element to some of the beats, that feels very different from previous albums.”



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Young Hearts

ABOUT

Young Hearts was an R&B vocal group from Los Angeles that became famous during the late 1960s. They are best known for “I’ve Got Love For My Baby” (1968), a Top 20 R&B chart hit. The original lineup consisted of Earl Carter, Charles Ingersoll, James Moore, and Ronald Preyer.

Best known songs (with years) include:

  • I’ve Got Love For My Baby (1968)

Pop charts debut year: 1968

Years active: ca. 1960s – 1970s

Genres: R&B, soul

Labels: Minit, Zea, 20th Century

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Gary Barlow enjoying anonymity among masked supermarket shoppers – Music News

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Gary Barlow is loving the British rule that everyone must wear masks in supermarkets – because it means he can fly under the radar.

As the frontman of Take That, Gary has millions of fans worldwide, and – before the COVID-19 pandemic – was recognised wherever he went. However, now that it’s the law to wear a mask when in shops in the U.K., Gary has been enjoying a new level of anonymity.

“I was in (supermarket) Asda the other week and people just wandered by me,” he told Britain’s Cosmopolitan magazine.

“I’m going to do Aldi next week,” he shared, adding: “that it’s illegal not to wear a mask is the best thing that’s ever happened!”

Keeping himself busy during lockdown, Gary has been hosting The Crooner Sessions on his YouTube page – which has seen him team up with stars including Rod Stewart and Leona Lewis – as well as spending time with his wife Dawn and their three children.

But it seems being cooped up indoors has made Gary more emotional than normal, as he admitted he often cries while watching Disney films with his 11-year-old daughter Daisy, and had to stop watching U.S. TV show This Is Us.

“When my wife and I got to season three, I looked at her and said, ‘I can’t do this any more, it’s ruining my life’,” he said.



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Foo Fighters keen for fans to ‘sing every word’ of new songs during upcoming concerts – Music News

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Foo Fighters hope fans will be “singing every word” of their new songs when they can finally perform live again.

The Shame Shame hitmakers have just released their 10th album, Medicine at Midnight, which they originally planned to bring out last year as part of a “worldwide celebration” of their 25th anniversary. And though the coronavirus pandemic has meant they can’t support the record with a tour, frontman Dave Grohl is hopeful the delay will make the tracks even more special.

“We imagined that our 25th-anniversary tour and our tenth album would both come together in this worldwide celebration that we would carry around like a circus until the wheels fell off,” Grohl told The Sun.

“So when everything stopped it was strange waiting,” he went on, explaining: “the excitement of finishing a record usually rolls over into the beginning of the tour and watching the whole thing grow.”

Admitting that: “seeing a song go from an idea written on a napkin to something that 60,000 people sing along to is a wild ride” Grohl described releasing music during the pandemic as “a broken process”.

“But I had this idea that we should release the album sooner than later so that by the time we do hit the stage, people will be familiar with all of the new songs,” he shared.

“(Songs) have to grow in your ear and your heart. Now, by the time we hit the stage, people will be singing every word because they’ll have time to get to know it,” the rocker proclaimed.



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Sam Fischer’s duet with Demi Lovato was meant to be with another artist – Music News

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The 29-year-old singer is releasing ‘What Other People Say’ with the 28-year-old hitmaker and admits it was by complete chance that it happened as the writing session was “supposed to be” for someone else.

Speaking to The Sun newspaper’s Bizarre column, he said: “The writing session was actually supposed to be for another artist, but that artist didn’t turn up. Demi heard it and immediately connected with the lyrics. I felt like this was something that she really wanted to say and share from her own personal perspective. But she hadn’t found the words to do that yet. So it’s kind of nuts. Demi has one of the best voices in the world. My personal opinion is that she’s never sounded better than on this song. Her voice is other-worldly.

“She’s been through so much. And to have the ability to be able to almost relive what you’ve gone through to put into a song and share that with people and be able to use your experiences to help others is such a beautiful gift that she possesses.”

Meanwhile, Sam recently hailed Demi as the “bravest” person he knows.

He shared: “It’s a real gift for her to be able to share everything she’s been through, because I Imagine every time she thinks about it and every time she talks about it, it hurts. But she is giving millions of people around the world a chance to not feel alone in their struggle. Demi’s so brave – one of the bravest people I know – and she’s so talented. Demi Lovato is one of the greatest vocalists in the world so to be able to sing with her is such a dream come true for me.”



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Rita Ora believes her portrayal of the Artful Dodger in ‘Twist’ shows ‘progression’ – Music News

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The 30-year-old actress portrays the character, traditionally a young male pickpocket in Charles Dickens’ classic novel ‘Oliver Twist’, in the new reimagining of the Victorian story and Rita believes it is a positive sign than any story can be adapted to focus on women.

In an interview with website HeyUGuys, she said: “What’s amazing about art and about literature is you can really make your own interpretation of it. Even if you have one version of a story. To be able to do a film and modernise it, and it being such a British cultural sort of heritage, and Artful Dodger being a male, so to be able to come into this character and put my twist on it shows progression in the day and age that we live in.

“I’m always going to champion that, I’m always going to be a voice for that, and the more I see it, the more I’m happier and accepting the world is going to be. In all aspects of the word and not just in movies, not just for music, but in life, in offices, in general life. So I’m very happy that I was able to do this role and do it to my fullest potential and put my own twist on it.”

What’s more, the ‘Let Me Love You’ hitmaker loves how director Martin Owen was able to update the story to set it in modern London compared to how Charles Dickens saw the city in his 1838 book because it shows how the UK capital has evolved.

She said: “Having the ability to show the world and the streets of London from today rather than whenever Charles Dickens’ did, I feel like us being able to have the ability to be like, ‘This is us now!’ and use our lingo and our language is always fun because London is the best. It’s everything about it; the food, the culture, the vibe, the streets. For me it was a privilege to be able to nod to something that is already so classic.”



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