We fact-checked Rocketman so you don’t have to.
But the rest of the plotdoesleave room for a few post-viewing Alexa conversationswhich is whereEntertainment Weeklycomes in.
Were Elton Johns songs written in the order they seem to be in the movie?
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Is Bennie and the Jets about drugs?
In short, no one really knows what “Bennie and the Jets” means.
Is Elton Johns stage name inspired by John Lennon?
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Elton Johnknown formally as Sir Elton Hercules John CBEwas born Reginald Kenneth Dwight.
We can all take an educated guess about the real story.
Can Elton play a song just by listening to it?
(We’re impressed, but not surprised.)
Was Eltons mom that mean?
she explained to EW.
“At one point I called one of my friends who’s a psychiatrist,” she continued.
“And he said, ‘Yeah, that sounds like some narcissism.’
I’m not a doctor so I can’t diagnose anyone, but you know.”
Did Elton and Bernie Taupin hit it off immediately?
Ray Williams of Liberty Recordsplaced an adin the magazine theNew Musical Express, looking for talent.
Both Taupin and John (then Dwight) responded.
Williams noticed that they complemented each other quite well, and launched their collaboration.
Did Elton walk out of a Madison Square Garden show to go straight to rehab?
Most of the plot that revolves around John’s drug use is true but rearranged, narratively speaking.
He also overcame his substance abuse issues, but (spoiler alert!)
it didn’t happen quite like inRocketman.
“Using it and not coming out for two weeks and it completely shut me down.”
White was an Indiana teen who was banned from going to school after contracting AIDS.
John befriended him and his family as they fought for public acceptance of Ryan’s diagnosis.
Did the crowd levitate during Crocodile Rock at the Troubadour show?
In an op-ed that Johnwrote inThe Guardian, he said he may as well have been flying.
“And honestly, that’s what it felt like.”
