Song is taken from The Lockdown Sessions
Elton John and Stevie Wonder share the music video for their collaboration “Finish Line.” The song is taken from John’s 2021 album, The Lockdown Sessions, featuring a diverse array of 16 tracks with collaborators.
Collaborating with music icon Stevie Wonder, the track is visualized by director Zach Sekuler through a montage of video footage and images varying through the decades depicting pivotal moments of life. Rising with birth, to a baby’s first steps, marriage, to the solace of retirement. Heart-rendering clips take centre stage through the destruction of COVID in everyday settings and the heroic work of front-line workers across the world. Whilst glimmers of Stevie Wonder and Elton John’s life-long companion and showmanship filter throughout, order begins to restore, as clips of a somewhat post-pandemic normality emerges.
The album reached No. 1 on the UK charts and includes the No. 1 single, “Cold Heart (PNAU remix)” with Dua Lipa.
John will also be releasing a limited edition lavender LP of The Complete Thom Bell Sessions as part of this year’s Record Store Day 2022. It’s six tracks mark the first time John recorded with legendary Philadelphia soul writer, arranger and producer Thom Bell.
Recorded in 1977, three of the six tracks were released two years later – remixed by Elton and Clive Franks – on a 12-inch EP. Of those songs, “Mama Can’t Buy You Love” gave John his first US Top Ten hit in three years. In the UK, the EP’s other key track, “Are You Ready For Love,” was picked up by DJs in the early 00’s and became a smash: giving John his sixth UK No. 1 single in 2003.
John will play 40+ arena dates in North America through April 2022 before embarking to Europe to kick off his stadium run and remaining arena dates. This summer, John will take his final bow in North America, playing in major stadiums in cities such as Vancouver, Toronto, East Rutherford, Chicago and more. The North American stadium run will kick off at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia on July 15th, before concluding with back-to-back performances at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on November 19 and 20th — commemorating his iconic performance at the historic venue in October 1975. 2023 kicks off with two shows in Auckland, New Zealand on January 27th and 28th, followed by soon-to-be-announced dates in Australia as well as arena dates across the continent of Europe before the epic four year tour formally concludes later that year.
