• 3 months ago
First look at Elton John: Never Too Late trailerDisney+
Transcript
00:00I always believed that if you have got enough ambition, you can make it anywhere.
00:10Ladies and gentlemen, Elton John!
00:17When I was very young, my life was all consumed by music.
00:23I just wanted to become a songwriter.
00:26The album went soaring up into the charts.
00:28Did you know that you'd nailed it?
00:30Yeah.
00:35We had hit after hit after hit after hit.
00:39The acclaim grew and the audiences grew.
00:41You're the most famous pop star in the world.
00:44Elton John is set to play at Dodger Stadium.
00:47No solo artist has ever put on a live stadium show.
00:51I knew it couldn't get any bigger.
00:58At that time, there was an emptiness within me.
01:04My soul had gone dark, I'd gone dark.
01:06There wasn't a joy to be around.
01:12I didn't have anything apart from my success and my drugs.
01:16I took a bunch of tablets. I thought I was going to drown.
01:21I felt there must be something more to my life than this.
01:28I was still very naive. I didn't know I was gay.
01:32If people were gay, they were in the closet.
01:36I was desperately wanting happiness.
01:38I'd gone completely the wrong way about it.
01:42It made me realise family was more important than anything.
01:48I've got to the point in my life where I have to do what is honest.
01:58I've got to do what is honest.

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