Billboard.com has learned that Neil Young, Booker T. Jones, Marc Ribot and Jim Keltner are among the guests who have contributed to the album. According to a post on the Web site of longtime John ...

But for Elton John, that’s precisely how and where he became inspired to call his keyboard-playing pal Leon Russell after more than three decades since they’d last spoken. That call ultimately led ...

Reginald Kenneth Dwight was a 20-year-old session musician when he applied for a job at a London record label, and was paired up with a lyricist named Bernie Taupin in 1967. Dwight adopted the stage ...

"Crocodile Rock." "Bennie and the Jets." "Philadelphia Freedom." "Tiny Dancer." "Rocket Man." "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road." With more than two dozen pop songs that broke into the Billboard charts Top ...

Elton John and Leon Russell are not so unlikely musical colleagues. Russell is slightly the elder, at 68 to John's 63, and within the age difference of two brothers. Both emerged in the early '70s, ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - In an unexpected pairing, Elton John and Leon Russell are recording an album together in Los Angeles with producer T Bone Burnett. Both performers have written songs for the ...