{"id":128450,"date":"2025-10-17T17:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/128450\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T17:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:13:10","slug":"hear-sam-fender-team-up-with-elton-john-on-talk-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/128450\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Sam Fender Team Up With Elton John on ‘Talk to You’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFresh off his Mercury Prize<\/a> win, Sam Fender<\/a> has shared a new song, \u201cTalk to You,\u201d which features Elton John<\/a> on piano. The Marcus Dravs-produced track comes off on the forthcoming deluxe edition of Fender\u2019s LP,\u00a0People Watching, which is set to be released on Dec. 5 via Capitol Records. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c\u2018Talk To You\u2019 was written during the People Watching sessions at British Grove,\u201d Fender said in a statement. \u201cIt\u2019s a song about the end of a long relationship \u2014 about the regret, the mistakes and the lessons that come with it. It\u2019s that feeling of losing your best friend and coming to terms with that.\u00a0I was playing around with the riff and thought what I need is a really good pianist and then hmmm, I wonder who I can call? And of course, who better than Elton John.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJohn added, \u201cSam was writing and recording in a studio in West London and called to say he\u2019d written a song with a piano riff that he thought would sound great with me playing it. I couldn\u2019t resist, and it was so much fun playing it for him. I truly love Sam. He\u2019s been a friend for many, many years and it\u2019s incredible to see him grow into being a truly world class artist.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFender unveiled People Watching, his third album, in February. The deluxe edition will feature eight new tracks, including \u201cTalk to You\u201d and \u201cRein Me In,\u201d which features Olivia Dean. <\/p>\n

\n\tLast night, Fender won the Mercury Prize<\/a> for People Watching. \u201cI just I really didn\u2019t \u2013 we did not expect this at all,\u201d he told the crowd at the ceremony, held at Newcastle, England\u2019s Utilita Arena. \u201cI want to say thank you to \u2013 I cannot think.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOf selecting the winner, the prize\u2019s judging panel said, \u201cPeople Watching\u00a0by Sam Fender is both melody-rich and expansive, marrying heartland rock with the realities of everyday life and the importance of community. These are thoughtful songs with broad appeal, as cinematic as they are intimate, making\u00a0People Watching\u00a0a worthy winner of the 2025 Mercury Prize for Album of the Year.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tOther nominees included FKA twigs, PinkPantheress, Pa Salieu, Jacob Alon, and Pulp. Fender performed the title track from his album during the awards ceremony. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresh off his Mercury Prize win, Sam Fender has shared a new song, \u201cTalk to You,\u201d which features…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,8824,117,19,17,28755,337,26928],"class_list":{"0":"post-128450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-elton-john","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-mercury-prize","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-sam-fender"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}