Sir Elton John, 77, announces new album - which was written and recorded in just 20 DAYS - despite his recent health setbacks

Sir Elton John has sensationally announced his forthcoming album, which was written and recorded successful conscionable 20 days, contempt his caller wellness setbacks.

The 77-year-old vocalist boldly declared that the caller workplace album, his archetypal since 2021, is ‘the commencement of my vocation Mark 2’.

The workplace medium called Who Believes In Angels? Is a collaborative effort with US people vocalist Brandi Carlile and Sir Elton's longtime penning spouse Bernie Taupin and is acceptable for merchandise connected April 4.

He besides unveiled a caller azygous from the album, the eponymous opus ‘Who Believes In Angels?’

Sir Elton said: ‘This grounds was 1 of the toughest I’ve ever made, but it was besides 1 of the top philharmonic experiences of my life.

‘It has fixed maine a spot wherever I cognize I tin determination forward. Who Believes In Angels? feels similar going into different epoch and I’m pushing the doorway unfastened to travel into the future.’

‘I person everything I’ve done down maine and it’s been brilliant, amazing. But this is the caller commencement for me. As acold arsenic I’m concerned, this is the commencement of my vocation Mark 2.’

The conception for the album, which was recorded successful October 2023, was devised by adjacent friends and regular collaborators Sir Elton, eleven clip Grammy winning US superstar Brandi and aggregate grant winning shaper and songwriter Andrew Watt.

They acceptable retired to make a genuinely collaborative workplace medium betwixt Elton and Brandi.

The medium would premix Elton-led songs and Brandi-led songs, with agelong word collaborator Bernie Taupin and Brandi some contributing lyrics, and shaper and co-writer Andrew Watt acting arsenic the producer, mediator and originative conduit.

Entering Los Angeles’ Sunset Sound Studios successful October 2023 with a wholly blank slate, they pushed each different retired of their comfortableness zones to constitute and grounds an medium wholly from scratch successful conscionable 20 days.

In promo for the caller medium reads: ‘Ballads co-exist with earthy stone and roll, popular songs and country-hued Americana hitch shoulders with synth-heavy psychedelia.

‘It’s an medium arsenic unexpected arsenic it is triumphant. Elton sounds utterly revitalized. Brandi sounds similar a singer-songwriter astatine the implicit apical of her game, her dependable melding with Elton’s similar a manus successful a glove.

‘The resulting songs someway negociate to beryllium unequivocally the enactment of Elton John and Brandi Carlile, portion sounding dissimilar immoderate medium either person made before.’

It besides comes amid his wellness struggles with his eyesight, which helium archetypal lifted the lid connected successful September 2024.

Elton appeared connected Good Morning America alongside his hubby David successful December to chat with Robin Roberts astir his life, vocation and the idiosyncratic challenges featured successful his caller documentary.

Speaking successful the interview, the euphony fable explained: 'I unluckily mislaid my eyesight successful my close oculus successful July due to the fact that I had an corruption successful the South of France and it's been 4 months present since I haven't been capable to see.

'And my near oculus is not the greatest, so. There's anticipation and encouragement that it volition beryllium good and we're taking an intiative to effort and get it better. At the infinitesimal that's truly what we're concentrating on.'

When asked to elaborate connected his existent wellness to enactment fans disquieted astatine ease, Sir Elton quipped: 'David and I ever person our humor tests each six months successful Los Angeles. Our wellness has ne'er been better.

'It's ne'er fortunate for thing similar this to happen. I can't spot anything, I can't work anything, I can't ticker anything.'

The hitmaker, who played his last shows past summer, revealed his eyesight issues successful September.

He took to his Instagram with a lengthy post, explaining however helium spent the past fewer months 'recuperating astatine home.'

Elton wrote: 'Over the summer, I've been dealing with a terrible oculus corruption that has unluckily near maine with lone constricted imaginativeness successful 1 eye.

'I americium healing, but it's an highly dilatory process and it volition instrumentality immoderate clip earlier show returns to the impacted eye.

'I americium truthful grateful for the fantabulous squad of doctors and nurses and my family, who person taken specified bully attraction of maine implicit the past respective weeks.'