Considering a cursory glance at the wardrobe of Elton John will show you more than a few spangly jumpsuits with “ELTON” emblazoned on them in red sequins, one would imagine this is a man comfortable in his own skin, as Farout reports.
That, given the choice, there’s no person to have ever lived he’d rather trade places with. In fairness, that may absolutely be the case today.
Strictly sober for decades, a beautiful family and nearly half a century of being one of the world’s biggest pop stars under his belt.
That wasn’t always the case, though. The man born Reggie Dwight has said on more than a few occasions that his chronic shyness and insecurity led directly to the creation of the ‘Elton John’ persona.
The problem was that the ‘Elton John’ persona ran on a truly herculean intake of coke and booze.
When The Guardian had the inspired notion to interview Elton John, not with the writer’s questions but with those of other famous people, a genuine murderer’s row of questioners was assembled.
Everyone from Donatella Versace and Tilda Swinton to Kacey Musgraves and the then captain of his beloved Watford Football Club, Troy Deeney, submitted a question to the Rocketman.
The most telling of all, though, came from Cara Delevingne, who asked if he could be any woman from history, who would he be? John, always an incredible interview, had this to say in response: “I would love to have been Elizabeth Taylor because (a) she was fucking talented and brilliant, (b) she was beautiful, (c) she had a lot of sex, and (d) she had the most fantastic jewellery. And she became one of the world’s greatest philanthropists.”
