That song wouldn’t be created for another two years.
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But the movie shows Williams passing along Taupin’s lyrics to “Border Song” before the two even met. In real life and the movie, Liberty Records executive Ray Williams introduced John to his longtime lyricist Bernie Taupin.
Bernie Taupin didn’t write the “Border Song” lyrics in 1967 So here’s a very incomplete list of moments from the movie that aren’t quite historically accurate.ġ. But a lot of people are going to see it with only a passing knowledge of Elton’s life and will emerge from the theater curious as to what was real and what was fictionalized. With all that in mind, fact-checking the movie may seem like an unfair exercise. He’s a creative, artistic person and that’s the way we approached it.” “I have to take artistic license, which is what Elton said I should do. “What I care about is capturing moments cinematically and musically,” Rocketman director Dexter Fletcher told Rolling Stone. Characters frequently burst into elaborately choreographed song and dance routines, songs are played long before he wrote them, the timeline is off much of the time and facts are disregarded in favor of creating a compelling narrative and capturing the emotional truth of Elton’s life. It’s a fantasy musical told from the perspective of a burned-out, drug-addled Elton reflecting on his wild life from a rehab facility in the early 1990s. The new Elton John movie Rocketman never pretends to be a traditional biopic.
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