“This is where you start to think about mortality.” Elton John reflects honestly upon future plans, admits “I don’t know how much time I have left.”
· louderBy Paul Brannigan
( Classic Rock )
published 14 October 2024
Sir Elton John opens up in forthcoming intimate documentary Elton John: Never Too Late
Elton John muses upon mortality in the forthcoming documentary film Elton John: Never Too Late.
The documentary, directed by American film-maker R.J. Cutler (The War Room, Nashville) and David Furnish, the musician's husband, looks back over Sir Elton's career as he prepares for his last-ever North American show, and shows the 77-year-old icon admitting, “I don’t know how much time I have left.”
“You think about that more when you get to my age,” he says in the film, as reported by the Irish Independent. “You think about life and death.... I don’t have to work after this tour. I will be working doing records and putting radio shows together, and doing other things, but travelling takes so much out of you. It is very tiring. I am used to it and I am a veteran at it… but this is where you start to think about mortality.”
The tagline for the film is “He risked it all, to find himself”, and a synopsis reads: “Elton John: Never Too Late follows Elton John as he looks back on his life and the astonishing early days of his 50-year career in this emotionally charged, intimate and uplifting full-circle journey.
“As he prepares for his final concert in North America at Dodger Stadium, Elton takes us back in time to recount the extraordinary highs and heartbreaking lows of his early years and how he overcame adversity, abuse and addiction to become the icon he is today.”
The trailer states, “The music you know. The story you don't.”
Watch the trailer below:
Elton John: Never Too Late | Official Trailer | Disney+ - YouTube
Elton John: Never Too Late will premiere on Disney+ on December 13.
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Paul Brannigan
Contributing Editor, Louder
A music writer since 1993, formerly Editor of Kerrang! and Planet Rock magazine (RIP), Paul Brannigan is a Contributing Editor to Louder. Having previously written books on Lemmy, Dave Grohl (the Sunday Times best-seller This Is A Call) and Metallica (Birth School Metallica Death, co-authored with Ian Winwood), his Eddie Van Halen biography (Eruption in the UK, Unchained in the US) emerged in 2021. He has written for Rolling Stone, Mojo and Q, hung out with Fugazi at Dischord House, flown on Ozzy Osbourne's private jet, played Angus Young's Gibson SG, and interviewed everyone from Aerosmith and Beastie Boys to Young Gods and ZZ Top. Born in the North of Ireland, Brannigan lives in North London and supports The Arsenal.
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