Made me actually like the guy, even with...

Rating: 8/10 (29 March 2020)

...the Sun reports regarding the rent boys in the early eighties, which tbf would probably be an invasion of privacy nowadays. Timeline goes up to approximately the throat cancer op which made his voice deeper (Nikita-ish) in the early eighties. Although this is only the Elton that Elton wants us to see, there's enough here to understand how he broke into music and how gifted he was, along with hardships and how he dealt with it. If this was an extra hour long it would have gotten another star or two. Think along the lines of 'Dreamgirls' and you're nearly there.