Elton John makes musical return to ‘SNL’ after new album release

Elton John joined Brandi Carlile as musical visitor on the newest episode of Saturday Evening Dwell, the place the 2 placed on an thrilling efficiency.
The 78-year-old legendary musician launched a collaborative album with Carlile, Who Believes in Angels?, and so they belted out one of many tracks, Little Richard’s Bible, on Saturday, April fifth.
Jack Black appeared because the host within the newest episode of the weekend present, and the musician duo returned to sing the titular tune of their LP.
This look marked John’s return to SNL after greater than 10 years. The Your Track hitmaker final appeared as a bunch and musical visitor in April 2011.
Whereas it was Carlile’s third time on the present, after she served as a musical visitor in October 2021, after which in December 2022.
John and Carlile first obtained to know one another in 2009, when the songstress wrote John a letter requesting him to play her tune Caroline on piano.
The interplay became a friendship between the 2 and so they got here collectively to work on numerous initiatives all through the years.
Beforehand in an interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music 1, John declared that he “wanted” Carlile to work with him, “I wanted her expertise, her power, her humor and her sensible lyrics,” he mentioned on the time.