Sam Fender is pleased to share details of a brand new deluxe version of People Watching, his Mercury Prize winning, chart-topping, critically acclaimed third album released earlier this year.
The deluxe version will be released on 5th December through Polydor Records and includes eight new tracks, released on CD and vinyl.
Pre-order the Deluxe album HERE. Listen to “Talk To You (feat. Elton John)” HERE.
In addition to the four tracks that originally featured on Sam’s limited edition Record Store Day vinyl-only Me and The Dog EP, three brand new, previously unheard tracks also feature: Talk To You (feat. Elton John), Fortuna’s Wheel, and The Treadmill. The extra recordings also feature “Rein Me In (with Olivia Dean)” for its first physical release.
To coincide with the announcement, an Elton John collaboration on the brand new track, Talk To You is shared, which finds Elton, Sam’s friend and long-term supporter, on piano. It was recorded during the initial People Watching studio sessions with producer Marcus Dravs in London.
Sam on Talk To You: “Talk to you was written during the People Watching sessions at British Grove – It’s a song about the end of a long relationship – about the regret, the mistakes and the lessons that come with it. It’s that feeling of losing your best friend, and coming to terms with that.
I was playing around with the riff and thought what I need is a really good pianist and then hmmm, I wonder who I can call? And of course, who better than Elton John.”
The February 2025 release of People Watching sent Sam Fender supernova and right up into the higher echelons of recent British success stories. Selling over 100,000 copies of the record in its first week in the UK alone, People Watching outsold the rest of the top 10 combined becoming the fastest selling album by a British solo artist since Spring 2022. Its release was followed by a slew of sold out stadium dates in the Summer, including the 80,000 London Stadium.
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