A weighty book is released on the life and music of rock's Leon Russell. HachetteBooks
Leon and his most famous acolyte, Elton John, soon after they first met in Los Angeles, 1970. Elton said Leon “was everything I wanted to be as a pianist, vocalist, and writer. His music has helped me and millions of others in the best and worst of times.”Sometimes we tend to forget that even musical heroes have musical heroes. When Elton John came to these shores to play his first highly-anticipated run of shows at L.A.
Russell died in 2016 at the age of 74 while recovering from heart surgery. And now the story of the life and music of “The Master of Space and Time” is told in Bill Janovitz’s massive and thorough biography,Through highly-detailed archival research and nearly 140 fresh interviews, Janovitz , traces Russell through his upbringing in Tulsa, Oklahoma, early success as an A-list session musician in L.A.
A continual theme is the respect that many of his contemporaries who were both on the front of album covers and in the liner notes held for him. And many feel in 1971’s The Concert for Bangla Desh, his performance outshone even those of organizer George Harrison, fellow Beatle Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan, Billy Preston and an admittedly incapacitated Eric Clapton. Though his utterly distinctive if range-limited vocal honk was utterly unique, it was also for many listeners and acquired taste.
Russell had much better relations with Willie Nelson, as they gleefully planned to bring “the hippies and the rednecks” together.
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