Giles Martin is the man who made you re-meet the Beatles, through his “Love” mashups and “Sgt.
Pepper” and White Album remixes.
So it made sense that he would be handed another classic catalog — Elton John’s — but this time with the assignment to recreate or completely rethink the songs from scratch.
“Rocketman” doesn’t include a lick of John’s original recordings; it’s Martin’s handiwork as music producer, with no small assist from collaborators like leading man Taron Egerton.“Sorry” has not turned out to be a hard word that Martin has to deliver to dissatisfied Elton cultists.
The $26 million opening weekend, A- Cinemascore grade and 90% Rotten Tomatoes score owe a great deal to this trustee not screwing up the music, even though he took plenty of liberties with the arrangements.Martin spoke with Variety about the challenges and ingenuities of recasting such familiar material for a
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