After losing his sight in one eye Elton John has been using a sixth sense to experience his movie.
The Rocket Man’s documentary Never Too Late lands on Disney+ later this year but Elton, 77, hasn’t been able to fully watch it since suffering a severe eye infection which means he can’t see properly. At the premiere over the weekend Elton admitted: “I couldn’t really see it because of my eye, but I sensed it, I’d seen it before.
Seeing it with an audience is far more emotional than just seeing it with a bunch of people. And I got more out of it than I did when I saw it the first time. And it hit harder.”
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There are benefits to not being able to see the film reckons Elton: “The first time I squirmed a bit because I don’t like seeing myself on stage very much or on film. But I enjoyed everything about it.”
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The doc arrives December 13 alongside a raft of other new Elton projects: “I’ve got records that are going to come out. We’ve got two musicals opening within a month of each other at the end of the year.
“The Devil Wears Prada opens in London in December and Tammy Faye opens in New York at the Palace Theatre in November. And that’s happening because of Covid. It wasn’t planned like that, but it’s the way it’s happened.
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“I still do my radio shows. I’ve got a beautiful photographic exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. There’s plenty of things that we’re doing. I like to stay active.”
Sounds like he has no regrets retiring from touring last year: “We finished after Glastonbury in Britain a year afterwards. We finished in Stockholm.
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And I got in the back of the car and I went, ‘Yes! I don’t have to do this again. I’ve done it and I want to go on a high’. And we ended on a high and that’s what I wanted to do.”
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