{"id":5246,"date":"2019-05-28T13:24:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T17:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/?p=5246"},"modified":"2019-05-28T13:24:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T17:24:16","slug":"elton-john-in-his-own-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/blogs\/2019\/05\/elton-john-in-his-own-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Elton John&#8230;in His Own Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we get ready for the release of Rocketman this week, Elton John just wrote an article for The Guardian about why he felt the time was right for a biopic.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/2019\/may\/26\/elton-john-in-my-own-words-exclusive-my-life-and-making-rocketman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My favourite quote:\u00a0 &#8220;<span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt;font-family: 'Georgia','serif';color: #121212\">It took a fairly Herculean effort to get yourself noticed for taking too much cocaine in the music industry of 1970s LA, but I was clearly prepared to put the hours in.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Also find out:<br \/>\nWhich song Bernie Taupin hated when it was written (and still hates today)<\/p>\n<p>How Elton John screwed over Rod Stewart for an iconic movie role<\/p>\n<p>And why he didn&#8217;t want his life story sanitized for the big screen!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The article is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/2019\/may\/26\/elton-john-in-my-own-words-exclusive-my-life-and-making-rocketman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a>, and watch the movie trailer below.\u00a0 Rocketman in theatres this Friday (or Thursday at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.landmarkcinemas.com\/showtimes\/london\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some<\/a> theatres)<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S3vO8E2e6G0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As we get ready for the release of Rocketman this week, Elton John just wrote an article for The Guardian about why he felt the time was right for a biopic. Read the article HERE My favourite quote:\u00a0 &#8220;It took a fairly Herculean effort to get yourself noticed for taking too much cocaine in the","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":5250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[678,1256,1255,843,1254],"class_list":["post-5246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-evenings","tag-elton-john","tag-guardian","tag-landmark","tag-rocketman","tag-rod-stewart"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 03:37:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/classicrock981.com\/blogs\/2019\/05\/elton-john-in-his-own-words\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5249,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5246\/revisions\/5249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}