John Shearer/97th Oscars/The Academy via Getty Elton John and Brandi Carlile are ... actually really sad — about a young boy called Ryan White who had died of AIDS just recently at that time ...

After Elton John watched Ryan White (a teenager who died from HIV complications after a blood infusion), and his friend Freddie Mercury (the frontman of Queen), die from similar complications ...

Elton John and Brandi Carlile are a match made in ... book report was actually really sad — about a young boy called Ryan White who had died of AIDS just recently at that time," she explained.