Sam Fender Toasts Mercury Prize Win With New Track Featuring Elton John: Listen

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"Talk to You" volition look connected an upcoming deluxe reissue of People Watching successful December.

(L-R) Sam Fender and Elton John execute astatine the 28th Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party sponsored by IMDb, Neuro Drinks and Walmart connected February 09, 2020 successful West Hollywood, California.

Following his Mercury Prize victory, Sam Fender has teamed up with Elton John for caller way “Talk to You,” which appears connected an upcoming deluxe mentation of his People Watching LP.

Fender has teased the opus successful caller weeks, and it volition look alongside a fig of antecedently unheard tracks connected the reissue, arsenic good arsenic his Olivia Dean collaboration of “Rein Me In.” The deluxe mentation of the medium is slated for a Dec. 5 release.

People Watching was victorious for the U.K. and Ireland’s Mercury Prize, which was awarded Thursday nighttime (Oct. 16) successful his hometown of Newcastle, England. Fender performed astatine the ceremonial with an affectional rendition of the rubric way of the LP.

Speaking connected Elton John’s Rocket Hour vigor amusement airing Saturday (Oct. 18), Fender calls making the LP “a baptism of fire” and says that it took 3 years to bring together. He enlisted John for the soft part, arsenic helium needed a beardown performer and due to the fact that of the pair’s adjacent relationship. “It was truthful overmuch amusive to travel and play connected 1 of your songs, due to the fact that we’ve been friends for a long, agelong time,” John says connected the amusement of playing connected “Talk to You.”

Elsewhere successful the interview, John challenges Fender to merchandise the wealthiness of worldly he’s sitting on. “There’s thing incorrect with going consecutive successful and doing different record,” John says. “That’s what we utilized to bash each the time. … When 1 grounds was finished, the different 1 was coming out. That’s the mode to bash it. If you’ve got a batch of songs, conscionable get them down.”

People Watching peaked astatine No. 1 connected the U.K.’s Official Albums Chart upon merchandise successful February, to springiness Fender his 3rd chart-topper. It besides achieved the biggest opening week income by a British solo enactment since Harry Styles Harry’s House (2022) with 110,000 copies. Fender headlined the London Stadium to 80,000 fans successful June, and performed a fig of immense outdoor shows crossed the state implicit the summer.

Listen to “Talk to You” with Elton John connected soft below.