Produced by T Bone Burnett, mark­ing a 5-decade mutual musi­cal ado­ra­tion between Sir Elton John and Leon Russel is a new album by the two artists’ first ever col­lab­o­ra­tion and It is one of this year’s fan­tas­tic sur­prise in my musi­cal arsenal.

What cap­tured my atten­tion — after the music — is the cover art, and only since I have learned that it is actu­ally shot by Annie Leibovitz.

Of course.

The clos­est thing I can find to show you how it might have been shot is this 1-minute behind-the-scene video for the Disney Park (loud music alert) & The Sopranos: Family Portrait.