'I thought that was great because it was representational of the time period.' Maxine Taupin, the inspiration behind “Tiny Dancer,' reflects on the musical number scene in Rocketman
On Dec. 9 at Bonham's in L.A., Maxine Taupin will be auctioning off lyric sheets to six of the pair's songs that she has kept in her personal possession, including"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road."
“But I’d never seen the lyrics to ‘Tiny Dancer.’ Bernie gave them to Elton. We showed up at Trident Studios and it was just the engineer, Elton, Bernie and myself and they played that song. They looked at me and Bernie said, ‘We wrote this for you.’ It was just an out of body experience.” After viewing the film at a screening in Los Angeles, Taupin does acknowledge the movie felt different from her memories. “I did find the movie heart-wrenching. My experience with Elton during the years I was married to Bernie was different than what was represented. Elton’s generosity is well known, and there was so much laughter and joy, which was not shown in the movie. But that was a choice that everybody made and I respect that choice.
Malouf and Taupin agreed to drive the group to Palm Springs, and that’s when the relationship began. “I wound up sitting with Bernie in one of the cars that I was driving and we talked all the way back from Palm Springs. But that was still before the Troubadour. Bernie took me to see Little Richard at the Whisky and after that asked if I would be his date to go to the opening show at the Troubadour and consequently every show afterwards.
But John was a very different dresser early on, reserved yet with a flair for wearing boots with wings on them, as memory serves Taupin. “He’d be wearing a boiler suit or a T-shirt with stars on it. You could see the beginning of the style that was going to evolve to what we see today.”
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