Elton even abstained from attending his father's funeral in 1991 because he said he'd be a "hypocrite" if he went.Though the public's perception of Elton John's father, Stanley Dwight, has largely been relegated to the negative quotes that Elton has said about him in the press over the years, other family members tell a somewhat different story. Elton John's Long-Running Feud with His Mother: Details - People It was a very stormy six months, after which I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown, he said. "You're a sex addict. "My kids were only going to grow up once," he writes in the memoir. Blauel became part of Johns inner circle during a bleak moment in his life, and they married in Australia months later. But I just havent led a PG-13 rated life. He also says there were moments in the film where Im completely disgusting and awful, but then, at my worst, I was disgusting and awful. Towards the end of the film, Taupin visits John in rehab, a scene that did happen in real life. The generous act had an unintended downside when the car proved too expensive to maintain, leading Stanley to reportedly sell it a short time later. Bernie talks about their first meeting in this Bernie Taupin interview. You may want to read Googles cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. It became clear that he was blessed with an incredible gift. He was Born as Reginald Kenneth Dwight. But Taupins words werent the only ones that could immediately summon melodies. He was also a keen record buyer. Hard. They should never have gotten married," he says. Als u uw keuzes wilt aanpassen, klik dan op 'Privacyinstellingen beheren'. Sign up to our newsletters and get our best stories straight into your inbox. In exploring the Rocketman true story, we discovered several key parts of Elton John's life that the movie leaves out. I've always said that 'El Paso' was the song that made me want to write songs, it was the perfect meshing of melody and storyline, and I thought that here was something that married rhythms and the written word completely." . ", No, they didn't meet for the first time at Elton John's Troubadour concert. Friend and songwriting partner Bernie Taupin found him. Tumbleweed Connection is the third studio album by English singer-songwriter Elton John. He'd lost touch with the shy London boy known as Reginald Kenneth Dwight. While Reid and John part ways in Rocketman on less than good terms, the reality was perhaps even more acrimonious. "His father didn't want him to be a musician at all," Furnish said. "You're a drug addict, you're an alcoholic, you're a food addict and a bulimic," he said. Read about our approach to external linking. "I'd kept a discrete distance from the actual process of making a movie about my life," he wrote in The Guardian after seeing the movie for the first time.