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Elton john rocket man text12/16/2023 ![]() ![]() Reggie takes notes from him, and also starts to take his sexuality into account when Wilson kisses him before a show one night. They meet and play with another musician named Wilson (Jason Pennycooke) and his group. The group gets booked to do shows for two quid a week each. He shows off his talent ("Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting") and grows into a performer where he joins his own band, Bluesology. Reggie then plays at a nearby pub in front of Sheila and Ivy, plus a bunch of rude drunks. Reggie is distraught that Stanley didn't even bother to say goodbye to him. Stanley finds out and uses it as an opportunity to leave for good. At one point, Reggie catches Sheila in a car with another man, Fred (Tom Bennett). ![]() In a jump forward to the 1960s, as a teenager (now played by Kit Connor), Reggie starts to attend a music academy in London to improve his skills. Reggie then starts to take an interest in music, and so Sheila and Ivy sign him up for piano lessons. His domineering father Stanley (Steven Mackintosh) is even worse than his mother, as he constantly controls his son's actions and doesn't even bother with showing him affection. Starting with a series of flashbacks, Elton, then known simply as his birth name Reginald Kenneth "Reggie" Dwight (here played by Matthew Illesley), was a shy but polite child living in suburban Middlesex county in the 1950s ("The Bitch is Back") with his emotionally vacant mother Sheila Eileen (Bryce Dallas Howard) and more loving grandmother Ivy (Gemma Jones). The group coordinator asks Elton to talk about his childhood. He sits down to join the group and explains that he is a drug and sex addict, plus an alcoholic, and he wants to get better before it gets worse. ![]() It turns out he is really attending a group meeting for addicts. The film starts with superstar rocker Elton Hercules John (Taron Egerton) walking into a room while wearing a gaudy orange devil-type outfit like he's about to perform. ![]()
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