Like Donna Summer time, Patti LaBelle works laborious for her cash, so that you higher deal with her proper!
Whereas reliving the previous, throughout a whimsical sport on the Sherri Shephard’s discuss present, “Sherri” on Thursday, the music icon recounted reminiscences of yesteryear, together with a second with Elton John that got here with some losses and wins.
“He was my piano player,” LaBelle mentioned, reminiscing on her time with John.
Whereas in London, John, who glided by his unique identify, Reginald Kenneth Dwight on the time, performed for LaBelle for a 12 months, in keeping with the singer.
“We played cards a lot. I took all their pounds. All of their money,” she confidently confessed.
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Being the expert card participant that she is, LaBelle went on to elucidate how she at all times received when she and John, together with their musical companions, would play. However, ever the gracious victor, the singer would “feed them” since they had been doubtless down on their luck on the time.
“I made them food to take home, with my tupperware,” she recalled. “My tupperware is very important to me. I don’t give it out.”
Alongside together with her tupperware, the “On My Own” singer proclaimed that she additionally doesn’t casually mortgage out her buying baggage. Together with her altruistic coronary heart, LaBelle admits she loaned out her prized possessions — however remembers by no means receiving them again, an offense she didn’t take doubtless.
Fortunately, for John, that’s not the place the story ends. Years later, he known as LaBelle, inviting her to a present he was headlining — however now, in fact, he was going by the identify all of us acknowledge.
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“He said Patti, please come to my show tonight,” she recalled.
Her response: “Who are you opening for?”
John casually responded, “I’m Elton John now.”
Since that second, time has handed, and the 2 finally did a tune collectively. LaBelle remembers the singer taking his rings off and putting them on the piano. Ever the maternal determine, LaBelle identified he left his rings on the piano, to which he responded, “That’s your tupperware.”
Although John by no means returned LaBelle’s tupperware, she states that “the ring is beautiful” and gave her a brand new perspective.
