‘Rocketman’ Fact-Check: What It Gets Right and Wrong About Rehab, Disco and Levitation

Now that moviegoers are finally getting to see “Rocketman,” casual Elton John fans may wonder which key moments are fiction.

That’s not easy in a film staged more as a movie musical than traditional biopic.

Is the “Tiny Dancer” singer’s story riddled with tiny fibs, or should we be surprised by what it gets right? Put on your levitatin’ shoes as we dig in and separate fact from fancy.John headed out of a concert and straight into rehab dressed as a horned demon.True.

He was so hopped up on cocaine at the time, he believed he was going to a “Fantasia” party, hence the full “Night on Bald Mountain” regalia.When Elton was a lad, he and the other members of his family retreated to separate rooms to sing about how lonely they were, trading verses on “I Want Love.”False.

“I Want Love” would not be written for another 45 years,

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