Rocketman

Rocketman is Broadway razzle-dazzle of the best kind

In the mostly magical new film Rocketman, the upstart musician Reginald Kenneth Dwight is in the office of a prominent British music publisher in the late 1960s. When asked his name, a nervous Dwight makes up a moniker on the spot. Eyeing a framed photo of The Beatles, he blurts out "Elton John," after John Lennon. The story isn't true, though. The "John" of Elton John actually comes from the towering British blues singer Long John Baldry. This is the kind of revisionism that gives rock-star biopics a bad name. [...]

di Brad Wheeler, articolo completo (4491 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Globe and Mail 29 maggio 2019