Nigel Olsson

Tom Cridland has been designing custom stage suits for Nigel Olsson, Elton John's drummer since 1969, for many years. Most famously, Nigel wore a custom purple Tom Cridland suit while drumming for Elton John's headline set at Glastonbury 2023 — watched by 7.3 million viewers, 54 years after he and Elton first played together.

Tom wrote about working with Nigel for HuffPost.

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