Elton John Laughed and Handed Elvis the Piano — Then a Stranger Walked Up and Finished the Song

The whole room laughed. Elvis didn't. He sat down and played the Moonlight Sonata, slowly and imperfectly, like a man playing alone at three in the morning. Then he told two hundred strangers why. In 1963 he had made a promise in a hospital playroom to a nine-year-old boy with leukemia. He went back that summer to keep it, and the boy was gone. For thirteen years Elvis never asked what happened to him. He was about to find out. #ElvisPresley #EltonJohn #StJude #MoonlightSonata #DannyThomas #Memphis1976 #LindaThompson #ElvisPiano #ChildhoodCancer #PromiseKept