You can find the YouTube clip where Bernie Taupin says this clearly.
John from RomeovilleThe lyrics were inspired by The Rocket Man by Ray Bradbury.Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind Publisher: Bluewater Music Corp., Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc. Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kidsĪnd there's no one there to raise them if you did Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone 'Til touch down brings me round again to find “If we’ve weathered the storm now for over 50 years and have been able to maintain this extraordinary bond with each other,” Taupin said, “I don’t think there’s anything on god’s green earth that could separate us now.And I think it's gonna be a long, long time I think everybody in the theater could hear him.”Ī final album is being planned to coincide with John’s farewell tour, and Taupin says the pair will begin writing songs “the same way we did from day one.” Taupin will write lyrics and then hand them off to John-two individuals working separately to form one of the most storied collaborative duos in pop history. When asked if he cried at the screening, Taupin responded: “Not as much as Elton.
“I’d like to think I’ve been someone who can’t be ruffled by the insanity of his career-and that I’ve always been there as the soft pillow to fall on in times of need.”įor now, the pair are reveling in this tribute, which has been well-received and premiered at Cannes to a prolonged standing ovation. “I think Jamie Bell definitely comes across as a very caring anchor, and that’s all I could ask for,” he said. Taupin is appreciative of the film’s nuanced portrayal of their complex relationship, in which they always emerged from disagreements with an ironclad understanding of their bond. I just thought there were times-wearing a Donald Duck suit in Central Park-where it sort of went over the top.” “There’s no secret that the reason he became that outlandish character is simply because it was rebelling against a childhood and a very domineering father who wouldn’t let him even wear Hush Puppies. Taupin recalled one major dispute during this fraught era: “He knew that there were certain elements of his stage persona that I didn’t think were necessary,” he said.
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Because we were hammered and falling into garbage cans.”Īs the movie progresses, Taupin and John grow increasingly distant, with John plunging into a Dionysian rockstar lifestyle and Taupin retreating out of the public eye. “When I watched that, that was reliving it, totally. You’re ruining two lives here: your own and the person you’re going to get married to,’” Taupin recalled. “ basically said to Elton that evening when we went out, ‘You have to understand: you’re gay.
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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