“My higher power has been looking after me all my life,” Elton John told Time magazine in late 2024. “He’s got me through drugs, he’s got me through depression, he’s got me through loneliness, and he got me sober.

“He’s been there all the time, I think. I just didn’t acknowledge him.”

That’s how the legendary singer-songwriter summarizes his deepened spiritual appreciation since becoming sober in 1990 — part of a shift away from a party life toward one more centered around higher ideals that include family and God.

Although the most famous, John is not the only rock star who has described an expanded appreciation for the divine. Bono and the other members of U2 became more public about their faith in the 1990s, describing how they used Bible study and prayer to help them “wind down” a

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