Tom Dunne: I'm delighted to add Elton John to my 'late career triumph' list 

You mightn't expect a new album from Elton John to be up to much. But 'Do You Believe in Angels' is superb, not least due to the input of Brandi Carlile

Elton John's new album features brilliant contributions from  Brandi Carlile. Picture: Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM.

I seem to be writing of lot of “Late Career Triumph” articles these days. Leonard Cohen, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan come on down. Artists making music at a point in their careers when conventional wisdom says they should be past it. But these days, such wisdom seems anything but wise.

Elton John’s new album, Do You Believe in Angels,is the latest. It is another “late career triumph”. It features Brandi Carlile although ‘features” might be too small a word for her part in this magic. She is a bright spark here and one which ignites something in Elton we thought long dead.