Rocketman star Taron Egerton joined Elton John onstage in Hove, U.K. during John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour to perform a duet of “Your Song.” Wearing a rainbow tee-shirt, Egerton stood front and center to sing the classic tune as John joined on piano and vocals. The performance is the first time anyone has made a guest appearance during John’s tour, which kicked off last September.
After the show, John wrote on Twitter, “Taron Egerton, thank you for joining me onstage tonight. We’ve shared so many...
After the show, John wrote on Twitter, “Taron Egerton, thank you for joining me onstage tonight. We’ve shared so many...
- 6/10/2019
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
Last week “Project Runway” narrowed down season 17 to its four finalists: Bishme Cromartie, Sebastian Grey, Garo Sparo and Hester Sunshine. Those four will present their 10-look collections for a shot at the grand prize … Actually, scratch that. Only three of them will present their collections. After working for five months back home, the four returned to New York City for one final challenge to decide the top three. I, for one, am not a fan of sending only three designers to the finale at this point. It’s one thing to eliminate a designer, but it’s quite another to let them work for almost half a year on a collection and then eliminate them. Let’s consider each designer’s trials, tribulations and triumphs one by one below.
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- 6/7/2019
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
We've been anxiously awaiting Taron Egerton's foray into musical film as Elton John in Rocketman, and the first question that jumped out when we watched the trailer is, of course, is Egerton actually singing?
In short, the answer is yes! Egerton does his own singing in Rocketman. He spent a long time recording John's music and trying to get it all right, according to The Hollywood Reporter. John's husband, David Furnish, even told the publication that John told Egerton that whatever he does, he shouldn't try to copy him. "Don't think you have to sing it exactly the way that I sang it. Don't think you have to perform it the way I performed it," Furnish said of John's advice to Egerton.
Related: The Respect! Taron Egerton Ties Elton John's Shoe on the Rocketman Red Carpet
Since filming the movie, we've gotten clips and glimpses of Egerton's singing -...
In short, the answer is yes! Egerton does his own singing in Rocketman. He spent a long time recording John's music and trying to get it all right, according to The Hollywood Reporter. John's husband, David Furnish, even told the publication that John told Egerton that whatever he does, he shouldn't try to copy him. "Don't think you have to sing it exactly the way that I sang it. Don't think you have to perform it the way I performed it," Furnish said of John's advice to Egerton.
Related: The Respect! Taron Egerton Ties Elton John's Shoe on the Rocketman Red Carpet
Since filming the movie, we've gotten clips and glimpses of Egerton's singing -...
- 6/4/2019
- by Hedy Phillips
- Popsugar.com
Giles Martin is the man who made you re-meet the Beatles, through his “Love” mashups and “Sgt. Pepper” and White Album remixes. So it made sense that he would be handed another classic catalog — Elton John’s — but this time with the assignment to recreate or completely rethink the songs from scratch. “Rocketman” doesn’t include a lick of John’s original recordings; it’s Martin’s handiwork as music producer, with no small assist from collaborators like leading man Taron Egerton.
“Sorry” has not turned out to be a hard word that Martin has to deliver to dissatisfied Elton cultists. The $26 million opening weekend, A- Cinemascore grade and 90% Rotten Tomatoes score owe a great deal to this trustee not screwing up the music, even though he took plenty of liberties with the arrangements.
Martin spoke with Variety about the challenges and ingenuities of recasting such familiar material for a...
“Sorry” has not turned out to be a hard word that Martin has to deliver to dissatisfied Elton cultists. The $26 million opening weekend, A- Cinemascore grade and 90% Rotten Tomatoes score owe a great deal to this trustee not screwing up the music, even though he took plenty of liberties with the arrangements.
Martin spoke with Variety about the challenges and ingenuities of recasting such familiar material for a...
- 6/4/2019
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
Falling somewhere between “Tommy” and “Across the Universe,” “Rocketman” offers a phantasmagorical, no holds barred, R-rated, jukebox musical version of Elton John’s life. And that was essential to Giles Martin (“Love”), the musical director and son of legendary Beatles producer George Martin, who wasn’t interested in doing anything remotely similar to the blockbuster “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
“The key for me was that every time a song started, it opened a fantasy world,” said Martin, who found himself auditioning with star Taron Egerton without even realizing it 18 months ago. “How do I get the songs to fit the narrative, to get the emotional context right?”
It didn’t matter if the songs didn’t fit chronologically– that, for instance, John hadn’t yet composed his first number one hit single, “Crocodile Rock,” with lyricist partner Bernie Taupin (Jamie Bell), when he launched his U.S. debut at the West Hollywood...
“The key for me was that every time a song started, it opened a fantasy world,” said Martin, who found himself auditioning with star Taron Egerton without even realizing it 18 months ago. “How do I get the songs to fit the narrative, to get the emotional context right?”
It didn’t matter if the songs didn’t fit chronologically– that, for instance, John hadn’t yet composed his first number one hit single, “Crocodile Rock,” with lyricist partner Bernie Taupin (Jamie Bell), when he launched his U.S. debut at the West Hollywood...
- 6/3/2019
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Just in time for this weekend’s release of Rocketman (see tickets and showtimes here) we’ve found five new collaborations that celebrate the iconic style, music and attitude of Elton John. The list includes three official collaborations with Paramount, the studio behind Rocketman, who are no doubt hoping to capitalize on the film’s critical buzz and star power to turn some dollars at retail stores as well.
John, whose career spans more than five decades, has left an indelible legacy both in the music world and fashion world,...
John, whose career spans more than five decades, has left an indelible legacy both in the music world and fashion world,...
- 5/31/2019
- by Tim Chan
- Rollingstone.com
In “Rocketman,” Taron Egerton as Elton John steps right out of rehab, brushes himself off and then goes on stage to thousands of glistening fans at a concert at Dodger Stadium, smacking a baseball into the bleachers as he stands atop his piano.
“Rocketman” is a jukebox musical fantasy that takes many liberties, bends the timeline and overall has a lot of fun. But Elton did play at Dodger Stadium during two shows on Oct. 25 and 26 in 1975. And he really did knock it out of the park in those performances.
The shows were a huge deal, as they were the first to be performed in nearly a decade at Dodger Stadium since The Beatles played there in 1966. According to John’s website, they were the largest performances by a single artist of their time, with more than 100,000 people in attendance across the two nights, “including Elton’s parents, relatives, office workers,...
“Rocketman” is a jukebox musical fantasy that takes many liberties, bends the timeline and overall has a lot of fun. But Elton did play at Dodger Stadium during two shows on Oct. 25 and 26 in 1975. And he really did knock it out of the park in those performances.
The shows were a huge deal, as they were the first to be performed in nearly a decade at Dodger Stadium since The Beatles played there in 1966. According to John’s website, they were the largest performances by a single artist of their time, with more than 100,000 people in attendance across the two nights, “including Elton’s parents, relatives, office workers,...
- 5/30/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
In advance of Friday’s release of “Rocketman,” the “fantasy musical” celebrating the life and music of Elton John, the man himself will be on an hourlong iHeartRadio special Thursday (May 30) at 5 p.m. Et/Pt.
According to the announcement, Elton will “personally introduce his favorite hits of all time and share captivating stories” across more than 120 iHeartRadio stations nationwide and digitally.
“Music saved me and that’s why there’s music all the way through the film,” Elton says during the special. “It’s been a constant in my life since I was a little boy. It saved me because I still kept working when I was mis-behaving and doing drugs…I’m still alive because of that.”
He also speaks, as he often does, of his recovery from substance abuse and encourages others to seek help. “I want people to come away with the thought that yes, you can survive,...
According to the announcement, Elton will “personally introduce his favorite hits of all time and share captivating stories” across more than 120 iHeartRadio stations nationwide and digitally.
“Music saved me and that’s why there’s music all the way through the film,” Elton says during the special. “It’s been a constant in my life since I was a little boy. It saved me because I still kept working when I was mis-behaving and doing drugs…I’m still alive because of that.”
He also speaks, as he often does, of his recovery from substance abuse and encourages others to seek help. “I want people to come away with the thought that yes, you can survive,...
- 5/30/2019
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
The trailer was promising, and so was the CinemaCon footage. But it takes confidence to send a movie to Cannes, and Paramount’s Jim Gianopulos, who knows the ins and outs of the international market, decided to launch out-of-competition at Cannes one of his first greenlights, Dexter Fletcher’s $40-million Elton John musical “Rocketman.”
The gamble paid off as the movie played well, with producers John and his partner David Furnish and songwriter-partner Bernie Taupin on hand. (Tomatometer is strong so far.) Cannes veterans know that the end-of-movie Palais applause is always long and lingering. What’s rare is breaking into applause in the middle, as the audience did after Taron Egerton as John sits down at the piano in his mother’s house and figures out the music for “Your Song” as Taupin (Jamie Bell) watches. It’s the moment when an artist finally finds his voice. I was in tears.
The gamble paid off as the movie played well, with producers John and his partner David Furnish and songwriter-partner Bernie Taupin on hand. (Tomatometer is strong so far.) Cannes veterans know that the end-of-movie Palais applause is always long and lingering. What’s rare is breaking into applause in the middle, as the audience did after Taron Egerton as John sits down at the piano in his mother’s house and figures out the music for “Your Song” as Taupin (Jamie Bell) watches. It’s the moment when an artist finally finds his voice. I was in tears.
- 5/16/2019
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
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