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Elton john rocket man year9/11/2023 One of those depicts John coming to terms with his sexuality following a heart-to-heart with Taupin and John’s bandmate Long John Baldry he then goes to break up with his girlfriend in a drunken haze in the middle of the night. “If we’d stretched it out it would have taken too much time-and you can’t always write songs that last 15 minutes.”Īnd while many details may be semi-factual, Taupin says that several scenes captured his life with a startling vividness. “Songs like ‘Tiny Dancer’ are not about just one person-it’s taking elements of different people and molding them into one character,” he said. (“I’m not a guy that swears,” he says.) But he came to appreciate how the film’s fantastical nature strengthened its narrative thrust-and compared its bending of truths to his own songwriting tendencies. It was a one-level apartment, and very small, too.”ĭuring the scriptwriting and filming process, Taupin says he suggested tweaks to factual details and personality traits, including his character’s use of profanity or certain turns of phrase. “I did write the lyric to ‘Your Song’ over the breakfast table-and I remember there was a coffee mug stain on the lyric.” Taupin does point out a couple small discrepancies, including the fact that John’s mother and grandmother weren’t actually there, as well as the size of the apartment: “There wasn’t an upstairs. “It’s pretty much how it happened,” Taupin said of the scene. By the time he has rinsed and returned, John has formed the indelible melody of “Your Song,” which would be the pair’s first breakout hit in the United States. A scene from Rocketman shows Taupin handing John (played by Taron Egerton) some lyrics and then going upstairs to brush his teeth. Many soon-to-be classics were written in that space.
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