When the album hit number-one in the UK charts on 29 October 2021, John said "I am so proud of what we have created" and wrote on his social media accounts:
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I'd come full circle: I was a session musician again. Working with different artists during lockdown reminded me of that. At the start of my career, in the late 60s, I worked as a session musician.
And I realised there was something weirdly familiar about working like this. But all the tracks I worked on were really interesting and diverse, stuff that was completely different to anything I'm known for, stuff that took me out of my comfort zone into completely new territory. Some of the sessions were recorded under very stringent safety regulations: working with another artist, but separated by glass screens. John explained the project in a statement: "Some of the recording sessions had to be done remotely, via Zoom, which I'd obviously never done before. The album features several previously released tracks: " Learn to Fly", released in June 2020 "Chosen Family", John's duet with Rina Sawayama on her Sawayama album the Gorillaz' track " The Pink Phantom" from their 2020 album Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez, on which John appears as a guest alongside 6lack John's cover of the Pet Shop Boys' " It's a Sin" along with Years & Years, released in May 2021 Miley Cyrus' version of " Nothing Else Matters" featuring John alongside various other guests, released in June 2021 from the Metallica tribute album The Metallica Blacklist and John's collaboration with Lil Nas X "One of Me", from Lil Nas X's debut studio album Montero.īesides these, the record also features collaborations with other artists including Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder, Brandi Carlile, Charlie Puth, Stevie Wonder, Nicki Minaj, Young Thug, Stevie Nicks and Glen Campbell.
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