A good year and a half ago, Elton John, 78, gave the last concert of his farewell tour. But even then, he said it would not be a farewell to music and held out the prospect of individual concerts. Now ...

Elton John says his new album, made with US singer Brandi Carlile, is a new beginning and his freshest work in decades. It was not easy to make, he says, but nothing compared to the challenge of ...