Elton John
speaker
119 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Mar 2025
Elton John’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There was Leon Russell. all those kind of people that were my heroes. And suddenly, I was there. I mean, it took me a couple of years to establish myself all over America. But it was like, I was a kid in a candy store. I never really visualized Elton John being a big star. It all happened by accident, really. It really happened by accident, which was lovely. That's a good question.
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Well, he said, they were grabbing the microphone. He said, if you break my microphone, you'll pay me 50 pounds. And I'm going, oh, John, that's not the way to handle this situation.
Not how to handle it.
Because I got to this point where after Rocketman came out, which was my first really big hit, about two years into my career after your song. I got screaming girls at some of my shows. And I just thought that was rather funny because I wasn't David Bowie and I wasn't Rod Stewart and I wasn't Mark Bolan and I wasn't Mick Jagger. But I was at the piano and I got screaming girls.
Luckily, they couldn't reach my microphone because I was playing the piano. You accepted it and you loved it and you just went along with it. I think John didn't know how to cope with it. He just really didn't know how to cope. For all his life, he'd been playing in clubs, playing the blues, and suddenly girls, young girls were screaming at him.
And I just think, you know, he just never knew how to handle that.
No. Well, he was gay, too.
Yeah.
Well, I didn't worry about it. It's like, well, I'm not interested and you're not. You're interested, but I'm not. But it was very sweet and they were very – I've still got a lot of – most of my audience is a lot of women as well, a lot of girls and a lot of females. And I'm very grateful for that.
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I hadn't. And I just thought, oh, my God. I remember where it was at the club. It was in Carnaby Street. And that's when Bernie and I came home that night and we were so drunk and I told Linda, the girl I was going to marry, that I wasn't going to marry her anymore because I'd never had a sexual experience. I didn't know anything about sex. I'd never had a sexual experience at all.
I didn't have a sex till I was 23, which was portrayed in Rocketman. That was the first time. I didn't know anything about it. I presumed that you had to marry a girl because that was the way things were done. But I did... I didn't have sexual feelings for Bernie. I just had great love for Bernie. And I wanted to cuddle him and I wanted to give him a hug. I didn't want to go to bed with him.
But I did love him more than I did love Linda. And when he said that, I suddenly start thinking... Oh, because I had no one in my family who was gay. I had no yardstick to measure my gayness on. Except I worked for Long John Baldy for so long. And he was so, when I look back now, he was so outrageous. And I didn't know anything, didn't think he was gay. I didn't know about it. I was so naive.
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