The movie starts with celeb rocker Elton Hercules John (Taron Egerton) walking into a room at the same time as sporting a gaudy orange satan-type outfit like he's about to carry out. It seems he is virtually attending a set meeting for addicts. He sits down to join the institution and explains that he is a drug and sex addict, plus an alcoholic, and he wants to get better earlier than it gets worse. The group coordinator asks Elton to talk about his youth.
Beginning with a series of flashbacks, Elton, then acknowledged truely as his birth call Reginald Kenneth "Reggie" Dwight (here played by using Matthew Illesley), turned into a shy however well mannered baby residing in suburban Middlesex county inside the Nineteen Fifties ("The whinge is back") with his emotionally vacant mom Sheila Eileen (Bryce Dallas Howard) and more loving grandmother Ivy (Gemma Jones). His domineering father Stanley (Steven waterproof coat) is even worse than his mother, as he constantly controls his son's actions and would not even hassle with showing him affection. Reggie then starts offevolved to take an interest in tune, and so Sheila and Ivy sign him up for piano instructions.
In a bounce ahead to the Sixties, as a teenager (now performed by way of package Connor), Reggie begins to wait a tune academy in London to improve his competencies. At one point, Reggie catches Sheila in a vehicle with another guy, Fred (Tom Bennett). Stanley unearths out and makes use of it as an opportunity to go away for accurate. Reggie is distraught that Stanley didn't even trouble to say goodbye to him.
Reggie then performs at a close-by pub in front of Sheila and Ivy, plus a group of rude drunks. He shows off his skills ("Saturday night's okay For preventing") and grows into a performer where he joins his personal band, Bluesology. The institution receives booked to do indicates for 2 quid per week each. They meet and play with any other musician named Wilson (Jason Pennycooke) and his group. Reggie takes notes from him, and also starts to take his sexuality into account whilst Wilson kisses him before a show one night. Reggie even considers converting his call, taking "Elton" from the band's sax player Elton Dean (Evan Walsh), who doesn't approve of Reggie taking the name concept.
Reggie then answers an ad from track executive Ray Williams (Charlie Rowe) and meets with him. He performs a piece of the piano for him and impresses Ray, and when he asks his call, Reggie formally calls himself Elton John (taking "John" from a framed image of The Beatles' John Lennon). Ray's boss Dick James (Stephen Graham) comes in and orders Ray out of his office. Earlier than Elton leaves, Ray offers him a folder with written songs in it and tells him to look them over.
Now officially referred to as Elton John, he then contacts the songs' creator, Bernie Taupin (Jamie Bell). The two meet for the first time in a eating place wherein they specific a shared love for song via making a song "Streets of Laredo". The two stay one at a time and collaborate for track, but after they gift the songs to Dick, he calls it all garbage and suggests the two stay together on the way to paintings together and realize a way to write higher track. Elton and Bernie then discover a place to stay in, and Elton starts to peer their landlady, Arabella. However, Wilson and his band-pals recognize Elton is genuinely homosexual. He asks Bernie if he could have a trouble with that, and Bernie truly tells him he has no problem with it. Regrettably, whilst Arabella finds out, she kicks both men out, forcing them to move back and stay with Sheila.
Elton and Bernie begin to create track that Dick loves ("Your track"), and he books them shows in the united states at the Troubadour. They tour with Ray and meet the membership's supervisor Doug Weston (Tate Donovan). Simply earlier than their debut overall performance, Elton hides inside the rest room and receives frightened whilst he hears that already set up acts are appearing before him, but Ray and Bernie make him exit to play. Elton gets in the back of the piano and starts offevolved to play "Crocodile Rock", which the complete target audience loves and joins him onstage to bop to. Later, the men attend a celebration at Mama Cass's wherein Elton meets song producer John Reid (Richard Madden). He favored what he heard from Elton, however also appears to have greater than a musical hobby in him. The two visit a room where they have intercourse.
Upon returning to the United Kingdom, Elton and Bernie part methods with a dismayed Dick and Ray to begin working for Reid. He helps build Elton's profession and facilitates him skyrocket to superstar reputation. In the meantime, Elton continues to war with non-public issues. He pays Stanley a visit in his new home and sees that he has young sons that he seems to care for more than he ever did with Elton. Stanley suggests Elton that he has a document of his and asks if he should signal it, but rather for a co-worker of his instead of himself. As Elton leaves Stanley for the remaining time, he sees the person choose up one of his sons affectionately, bringing Elton to tears. Within the present day as he recounts this, he turns into angered and throws his chair, and also starts to regularly shed his outfit.
Elton is visible recording "do not pass Breaking My heart" with Kiki Dee (Rachel Muldoon), but he has them take a quick ruin so that he and Reid can have sex in a nearby room.
On their manner to a display, Elton orders the motive force to forestall a automobile so he can run to a smartphone sales space and contact Sheila to pop out to her. She says she has continually recognized and doesn't truly care approximately it, but she tells her son that he's choosing to be on my own forever. After the call, Reid suggests his greater abusive and controlling aspect by means of ordering Elton to get himself together and carry out. Elton even later catches him receiving a blowjob from his secretary. To hide his sorrows and insecurities, Elton starts to drink, do tablets, and wear flashy however ridiculous outfits.
Elton begins to end up more emotionally volatile and depressed. During a party, he takes a handful of drugs and a massive swig of vodka before going to the pool to announce to everybody that he goes to kill himself. He falls into the pool and shall we himself sink to the lowest in which he sees a imaginative and prescient of himself as a toddler playing "Rocketman". The opposite birthday celebration-goers and medics pull Elton out of the water and have his belly pumped. This transitions to him appearing "Rocketman" in concert.
Someday later in the 1980's, Elton meets Renate Blauel (Celine Schoenmaker) and later marries her, but the marriage speedy proves to be a loveless sham, and that they divorce soon enough.
Elton finds out that Reid has been skimming cash from his file income. He wants to do away with John, however the boastful prick reminds him that he will nevertheless be amassing his 20% despite the fact that Elton kills himself. Elton later has dinner with Sheila and Fred (whom she has lengthy in view that married), which turns bitter quick when they get into a controversy, and Sheila says she has continually observed being his mother to be a humiliation. This includes over to Elton and Bernie moving into a combat.
Elton is about to carry out at Madison square lawn within the devil outfit he became seen in earlier, however as he starts to do some coke, his nose begins to bleed. Realizing he has a extreme trouble, he bails from the live performance and heads to the institution therapy session. With him finished telling his story, he then has a imaginative and prescient of every principal person in his existence (Sheila, Stanley, Ivy, Bernie, and Reid) speaking to him. Ivy remains encouraging, and Elton says he no longer cares for his dad and mom' evaluations. He also does not sense managed by means of Reid anymore, and he remains company in his friendship with Bernie. He then sees his more youthful self and offers him the hug he always wanted. Elton later stays in a rehab middle wherein he is visited by Bernie, who calls Elton his brother.
Elton later gets higher and continues to perform ("i am nevertheless status").
The very last textual content states that Elton John has been sober for almost 30 years. He organized a charity for humans around the arena with AIDS, and he has located love for the last 25 years with David furnish. He and Bernie Taupin had been participating for the final 50 years, and they stay extraordinary buddies to this day. Elton has currently retired from visiting to consciousness on raising his sons Zachary and Elijah with David.
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