![]() And someone guided me into saying that I need help.Īnd I went into rehab and I, you know, I've been-this year, hopefully, in July, I'll be 18 years sober and clean. ![]() And that helped me a lot to see how out of whack my life was, you know, how impossible my life had become, how self- obsessed I had become.Īnd shortly after Ryan died, which I was at the funeral for in Indianapolis-and I played at the funeral-I decided six months later, that my life was, you know, pretty horrible. I became very friendly with the Ryan White family, with Ryan and his mother Jeanie. I never felt really that, during that time, I did enough for AIDS, people with AIDS, being a gay man. And during that time, the AIDS epidemic started, in the early '80s. As John told Larry King in 2008 about his decision to go to rehab: I was an alcoholic and a drug addict for 16 years. In reality, though, John didn't go to rehab until 1990 after his Sleeping With the Past tour. The framing of Rocketman shows John storming out of his Madison Square Garden gig and going directly to rehab, where he tells his story. And, for the most part, the movie fairly accurately recreates John's life as a young boy through the '70s. The script was developed by Lee Hall, who spent many hours with John, hearing stories and anecdotes, according to Fletcher. "We know he was at the Troubadour, but it's really trying to communicate what that felt like, not just the fact that he was there." "There could be a factual, chronological documentary that would tell you absolutely everything about what Elton did, where he was, and when he did it, but the film just absolutely explores his inner, emotional life," Fletcher says. ![]() But that's how events are depicted in Rocketman, the film about Elton John, because this is not a biography-it's a musical intended to capture the emotion of John's life, as the movie's director, Dexter Fletcher, tells me. Neither did he turn into an actual "rocket man" during his Dodgers Stadium shows in October 1975. As you've probably gathered, Elton John did not literally levitate along with the audience during his Augshow at the Troubadour in Los Angeles.
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