Latest Release
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- 19 JAN 2024
- 1 Song
- Seventeen Going Under (Deluxe) · 2021
- Homesick - Single · 2024
- Seventeen Going Under (Live Deluxe) · 2022
- Seventeen Going Under (Live Deluxe) · 2022
- Seventeen Going Under (Live Deluxe) · 2022
- Seventeen Going Under (Live Deluxe) · 2022
- Seventeen Going Under (Live Deluxe) · 2022
- Seventeen Going Under (Live Deluxe) · 2022
- Seventeen Going Under (Live Deluxe) · 2022
- Seventeen Going Under (Live Deluxe) · 2022
Artist Playlists
- A fervent scream over violently bruised indie rock.
- Don’t let his Springsteen-style anthems fool you—the UK artist was formed by Metallica, too.
- Lean back and relax with some of their mellowest cuts.
Live Albums
More To Hear
- Sam Fender co-hosts the show with Elton.
- The UK artist on his cover of “Sad but True” by Metallica.
- The singer FaceTimes and Elton tells a Human League story.
- Weezer’s lead vocalist phones in, and Elton John pays tribute to Keith Flint.
- The rising UK talent discusses his Dead Boys EP and 2019 plans.
- The artist talks Love Is Magic, and Elton John shouts out Sam Fender.
- Elton John calls the rising British artist, plus Muse and Khalid.
About Sam Fender
Sam Fender crafts the kind of tenacious anthemic rock that punches straight at the gut. Born and raised in 1994 in the northeastern English town of North Shields, the singer/songwriter first picked up a guitar at age 10 and began playing gigs locally as a teen to help support him and his mother. But it wasn’t until he started writing music for himself—rather than what he thought others wanted to hear—that everything started to click. That’s when he wrote his 2017 debut single, “Play God”, a propulsive, politically charged slice of indie rock. It came from a place of deep desperation, “a time where I was like, ‘I need to prove myself. I need to do something that cuts through,’” he told Apple Music. The track earned him a slot on BBC’s Sound of 2018 shortlist, which led to a deal with Polydor Records and the release of his acclaimed 2019 debut, Hypersonic Missiles, an album that channels modern-day anxiety through heartfelt heartland rock. His 2021 follow-up, Seventeen Going Under, hit even harder, pumped full of soaring arrangements and bold statements that continue to prove Fender’s power as a mighty millennial voice for the working class.
- HOMETOWN
- North Shields, England
- BORN
- 25 April 1994
- GENRE
- Singer/Songwriter