Rocketman

The Fantastical Tale of Elton John, Survivor, Rock God, Camp Icon

The first album I ever bought with my own allowance was "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy," one of two studio LPs Elton John released in 1975. Nestled inside the sleeve was a graphic-novel-style booklet about the singer's life, a source of great fascination to me at the time. I spent many hours that summer on the beanbag chair in the green-carpeted den, listening to "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" and poring over the tale of how a shy, bespectacled piano prodigy named Reginald Dwight blossomed into the internationally renowned song stylist dominating my turntable and millions of others. [...]

di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (7197 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 28 maggio 2019