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Was Elton John in love with Bernie? ›

“I cry when I sing this song, because I was in love with Bernie, not in a sexual way, but because he was the person I was looking for my entire life, my little soul mate.” John regards the relationship as the most important in his life and how now, years later, they have ended up becoming their alter egos.

In 2005, he was awarded the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for "A Love That Will Never Grow Old" for the movie Brokeback Mountain. He was played by Jamie Bell in the biopic movie Rocketman (2019). Taupin has been married four times and divorced three times. He has been married to Heather Kidd since 2004.

Bernard John Taupin CBE (born 22 May 1950) is an English lyricist and visual artist. He is best known for his songwriting partnership with Elton John, recognised as one of the most successful partnerships of its kind in history. Taupin is behind the majority of John's songs, dating back to the 1960s.

But we were doing a lot of drugs and drinking heavily, and he was beginning to write with other people, which made me a little jealous.” He added: “I decided I'd write with some other people. We never discussed it; we just let it go, and it hurt. It hurt him, and it hurt me.”

Elton John was first engaged back in the 1960s to secretary Linda Woodrow, his first lover, but he broke off the relationship just a fortnight before the wedding. He had his first same-sex relationship with Tamla Motown's UK label manager John Reid soon after his career-making US shows in Los Angeles in 1970.

No, Bernie and Elton weren't ever lovers. Might have made for some interesting songs. Bernie is straight and has been married a couple times, has children and a ranch in California. Bernie Taupin is a straight male.

Five-time Grammy winner Elton John and his husband, David Furnish, are the proud parents of two boys. The "Rocket Man" singer and the former advertising executive, who have been together for three decades, first became fathers when they welcomed their older son, Zachary, 13, in 2010 via surrogate.

Summary: Bernie Taupin has four children: Charley, Lily, Georgeanna, and Mia. Charley and Georgeanna are involved in the music industry, while Lily and Mia are not. All of Bernie Taupin's children are successful in their respective fields and have close relationships with their father.

'Tiny Dancer' was suggested to have been written about Bernie Taupin's girlfriend Maxine Feibelmann, who later became his wife. The lyric "blue jean baby, LA Lady, seamstress for the band" was a nod to Maxine as she'd regular tour with Elton and his band, sewing together costumes and fixing clothes when required.

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Where does Bernie Taupin live now? ›

Longtime Santa Ynez Valley resident Bernie Taupin, 73, longtime lyricist for rocker Elton John, has published a new memoir Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me.

There were other lows in their relationship as well—the most widely reported being an eight-year estrangement that Sheila said was caused by Elton's husband, David Furnish. While John offered minimal public commentary about his mother out of respect for her privacy, Sheila took a different approach with the press.

"Candle in the Wind" is a threnody style ballad written by English musician Elton John and songwriter Bernie Taupin, and performed by John.

“We reconciled in 2016 and it was a nice reconciliation,” he said on ITV's Lorraine aired Thursday. “I saw her a week before she died, and I thought, 'God, she's pretty feisty, she's going to last for a few months,' and a week later she was dead.

In 2005 he entered a civil partnership with his long-term partner, the Canadian filmmaker David Furnish. They married in 2014, when same-sex marriage became legal in England and Wales.

Taron Egerton plays Elton John, with Jamie Bell as his longtime collaborator and friend, Bernie Taupin. Rocketman also stars Richard Madden as John Reid, a music manager and the man who became Elton John's first lover.

Despite the fact that Elton John married Renate Blauel in 1984, there is no Elton John wife. There are, however, Elton John girlfriends and Elton John boyfriends. He and Blauel split in 1988. Another Elton John girlfriend - and briefly fiancée - was Linda Woodrow.

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