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Session ace, songwriter, ringmaster: how Leon Russell quietly shaped rock, country, gospel, and the big touring machine.

Before the ’70s spotlight, Leon Russell was LA’s stealth piano ace, shaping hits as a first-call session weapon long before the credits caught up.

Inside the myth, the muse, and the musical mechanics of Leon Russell’s timeless ballad – and why it still wrecks listeners decades later.

Leon Russell wrote for the stars, led Mad Dogs & Englishmen and built a Tulsa lab, yet stayed half invisible. Here is why his ‘automatic’ magic mattered.

In one of the final photos taken before his passing in 2016, Leon Russell is seen at the piano—his signature…