Watch the moment Elton John, 77, slams down headphones and brands recording session ‘a f***ing nightmare’ in shock clip

SIR Elton John has earned the estimation arsenic a mega diva implicit the people of his 5 decades successful showbiz.

And the 77-year-old is inactive prone to a spectacular outburst from clip to time.

That celebrated temper got the amended of him arsenic helium worked connected astonishment caller medium Who Believes In Angels? with rocker Brandi Carlile, ace shaper Andrew Watt and longtime collaborator Bernie Taupin.

Holed up successful Los Angeles' legendary Sunset Sound Studios, Elton had a meltdown, throwing down headphones successful a huff and branding the signaling league a "f***ing nightmare".

In a trailer for a making of feature, Elton admitted helium "doesn't privation to coast" aft coming disconnected a blistery streak that saw him play acclaimed sets astatine Glastonbury and Dodgers Stadium.

And it surely proved a hard undertaking, adjacent for a antheral of his talents.

The quartet, arsenic good arsenic Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, enactment unneurotic the medium successful conscionable 20 days astatine the process extremity of 2023.

There were galore fraught moments and erstwhile Watt asked if Elton was acceptable to record, helium was met with a sharp: "Why bash you deliberation I americium sitting here?"

Exasperated, Watt, who produced the Grammy-winning Rolling Stones medium Hackney Diamonds, responded: "I americium conscionable trying to marque the opus arsenic champion arsenic it tin be... you are truthful impatient."

Narrating the clip, Elton admitted: "The world is I was exhausted. I had a batch of doubt. I was a nightmare. I was angry, I was tired, I was irritable... I felt I don’t privation to bash it.

"I felt determination were different radical involved, I can’t wantonness it… yet it each started to flow. I wanted to play better, sing better, constitute amended and situation myself astatine the property I am."

Carlile, who has been a instrumentality of Elton since she was conscionable 11 years old, said: "Elton is prone to bouts of insecurity particularly wherever the stakes are high. I americium having a hard clip connecting to Elton. 

"There were times erstwhile I thought wherefore does helium privation to bash this."

At 1 stage, Elton threatened to spell home, prompting Watt to outcry "cut the mics!"

But erstwhile the "fog lifted" the euphony began to flow.

Taupin declared "in the 50 positive years we've been doing this we've ne'er made a grounds similar this."

Elton called it "one of the top philharmonic experiences of my life", portion Carlile described it arsenic "spectacular".

There was truthful overmuch emotion progressive successful the euphony that Elton burst retired successful tears down the soft astatine 1 constituent and was comforted by his collaborators.