![]() ![]() I suppose my mum and dad must have been in love once, but there wasn’t much sign they ever had been by the time I came along. But it fitted life in Pinner Hill Road perfectly. I Want Love is a song Bernie wrote, I think, about himself: a middle-aged man with a few divorces, wondering if he’s ever going to fall in love again. So I wasn’t prepared for the power of what I was seeing. I figured it would be uncomfortable for everyone to have the person the film was about lurking around. But otherwise I’d kept well away from Rocketman, letting my husband David be my eyes and ears on set every day. I gave some suggestions, saw a few daily rushes, said yay or nay to some important decisions and met two or three times with Taron Egerton, who plays me. Up until that point, I’d kept a discrete distance from the actual process of making a movie about my life. I knew it was in the film, but I didn’t know how they were going to use it. ![]() ![]() I was watching my family – my mum and dad, my nan – in my nan’s old council house in Pinner Hill Road in the late 1950s, singing I Want Love, a song Bernie Taupin and I had written in 2001. Not crying as in the occasional tear quietly trickling down my cheek: really sobbing, in that loud, unguarded, emotionally destroyed way that makes people turn around and look at you with alarmed expressions. I was in the cinema for about 15 minutes before I started crying. ![]()
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