![]() 'I've never stopped enjoying singing it': Elton John on 'Your Song' at 50, new rarities box set "I'd be like, 'Elton! I got nominated for a Grammy!' And he'd be like, 'Great honor! Love you!' " "It's weird, he barely knew me, but I felt so compelled to tell him everything," Carlile tells USA TODAY with a laugh. He first reached out in 2007 to say he's a fan, and soon became her "gay pen-pal father figure," Carlile writes in her new memoir "Broken Horses." She lost the competition but ultimately had the last laugh: The six-time Grammy winner now considers John one of her good friends and mentors. ![]() She wore a thrifted white polyester suit with drugstore boat shoes and pipe cleaner glasses that her mom bedazzled herself. When Brandi Carlile was in junior high, she performed Elton John's "Honky Cat" in a local singing contest. ![]()
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