Kerrang!: Watch Metallica honour Elton John with a badass cover of Funeral For A Friend / Love Lies Bleeding
There’s been a long-running and very wholesome mutual love and respect between Metallica and Elton John – from the Rocket Man appearing on 2021’s huge The Blacklist Album, to calling Nothing Else Matters “one of the best songs ever written” in an interview and making James Hetfield well up.
And now, ’Tallica are sharing their appreciation right back, honouring Elton and his equally legendary songwriting partner Bernie Taupin at a tribute concert in Washington, D.C. for the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.
