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...“I don’t think I’m that good of a scripter, or anybody on our staff,” he said. “Taylor is obviously a dynamo....
...“I believe it was that night that Elton [John] told him, after hearing that song, that he had to make a record.”...
...Elton John pounds out the piano honky-tonk on “Get Close” and “Live by the Sword”....
...As is usually the case, reality didn’t live up to fantasy....
...His friends (Hurley and Elton John) checked him into rehab. But even that didn’t hit the spot....
...“With Elton you can’t crank it up too much,” chuckles Levine. “The more sparkle, the more effervescent you can get – the better.” A fitting tribute to a glittering career....
...Parr recognises that he isn’t a neutral bystander when it comes to consumer culture....
...The instruments, of course, don’t do all the work....
...I would take her advice and move one step further: Don’t surround yourself with too many Eeyores....
...Can’t get the kind of vibe you really want to pump your party? Then simply shower it in cash. A deficit in hubris certainly didn’t prevent Mukesh Ambani from mounting a three-day “jamboree” last week....
...Then again, another barrister wouldn’t have been invited to Elton John’s. “Probably not.” I ask Sherborne if he sees himself as more of a peer to his clients. “I think that’s right....
...In recent years we’ve seen Rami Malek playing Freddie Mercury, and Taron Egerton doing Elton....
...The Louis XIV-inspired wig and train Elton John wore for his 50th birthday party in 1997 get their moment....
...Gianni Versace’s fashion shows you couldn’t even walk on the streets,” she recalls....
...Take a break from the news What makes Sir Elton John tick?...
...When Lily Jones, aka Lily Vanilli, was thinking how to mark 15 years of her East London bakery – which has made cakes for everyone from Elton John and Madonna to the V&A and 10 Downing Street – she knew...
...And in a true sign of our times, there’s even a Devil Wears Prada musical coming to London later this year with music by Elton John....
...Elton John co-wrote Scissor Sisters’ biggest hit, “I Don’t Feel Like Dancin”. Shears beams: “The show is such a bonkers mash-up of me and Elton, and of course, it’s a match made in heaven.”...
...To find out, don’t miss this all-dayer in leafy Barnes packed with mindfulness workshops, fitness, food and music....
...Don’t get me wrong, Mozart’s definitely one of the greats, right up there with Elton John....
...“If I hadn’t lived it, I wouldn’t believe it,” she declares early in the action — a comment that by the end feels like understatement....
...Europe didn’t experience blackouts, though we said this would happen only in a very cold winter (it wasn’t). And there wasn’t a string of defaults in Africa, though Ethiopia did default this week....
...This momentous event, to be reviewed tomorrow, would be even more momentous if Elton hadn’t been lavishing his goodbyes on the world since his gargantuan farewell tour began in 2018....
...“Elton John is living his best life and I’m here for it!” How lost do you have to be as a British adult, how impressionable, to speak like this? Or to say “oftentimes”, “at this point”, “not OK”?...
...But one thing of which she can’t be accused is failing to hustle and put in the work....
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