With a Broadway show opening this fall, Sir Elton talks about the musical’s inspiration.
“Billy Elliot” is based on the successful 2000 movie about a young boy who longs to dance but lives in the bleak coal-mining area of Northern England. His story is set against the backdrop of a bitter miners’ strike.
John tells the New York Daily News: “At the end of the film, Billy’s father sees (his son) dance at Covent Garden. My father really never got to do that when I became successful later on in my career. So I kind of missed that.
“I was always trying to please my father, but he really never got what I wanted to be and disapproved of it completely. He was a product of the war and wanted me to have a safe job in a bank or an accountancy firm. And that wasn’t for me.”
Oh well, that’s accountancy’s loss.
