First poor Elton John was hoodwinked into appearing in Brüno, and now he’s somehow been tricked into performing on the title track on the reformed Alice in Chains’s new album, Black Gives Way to Blue. “I’ve long been an admirer of Jerry Cantrell and when he asked me to play on ‘Black Gives Way to Blue,’ I was very flattered and couldn’t resist,†says a person purporting to be John in a press release.