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.