Levon (song) In 2013, however, Taupin said that the song is unrelated to Levon Helm. The "Alvin Tostig" mentioned in the song (Levon's father) is, according to Taupin, merely fictional. "Levon" has been covered by several artists, including Jon Bon Jovi (who covered the song on the tribute album "", and claims that "Levon" is his favorite song of all time, saying that he looks up to Elton John as his idol) and Canadian rock singer-songwriter Billy Klippert. Phil Lesh and Friends started playing the song in April 2012, shortly after Levon Helm's death. The season 1 "Midnight Caller" episode "But Not
Levon Ambartsumian Levon Ambartsumian Levon Ambartsumian (; ; born 1955) is an Armenian classical violinist and conductor. Levon Ambartsumian currently lives and works in Athens, Georgia, United States. Levon Ambartsumian studied in the Moscow Central Music School and then in the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where his teachers were Mikhail Garlitsky, Felix Andrievski, Yuri Yankelevich, Leonid Kogan and Igor Bezrodny. In 1977 he became the First Prize winner of Zagreb International Violin Competition headed by Henryk Szeryng. Two years later he was a prizewinner of the Montreal International Competition, and in 1981 he won the USSR Violin Competition in Riga, Latvia. Levon Ambartsumian