Congratulations, Elton and David!

[poliphilo]

I like Elton John. Always have done. Even at his glammest, silliest, most diamante-studded-bespectacled. I think he's a brave little tyke. I think he rings true.

And now he's become historically significant by becoming the first famous person to enter into a same-sex marriage under the new rules.

Well done him!

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not going to defend his scrapping with Billy Joel.

There's no doubt the guy's damaged and conflicted. I'd say his celebrity bad behavious is rooted in a huge inferiority complex and a fear of being found out. "Here am I, ugly, balding, little Reg Dwight from Pinner and people only love me because of my music." But I think, in recent years, he's become much more comfortable in his own skin. I take the Furnish film as a sign of that.

I've always thought that there was an element of ironic self-parody in the extravagance and the dressing up. When he appeared at his 50th birthday bash dressed as Marie Antoinette in a six foot wig with a ship in it, he must have been aware of how silly he looked.

I don't think it's possible for someone as famous and rich as Elton is to keep fully in touch with reality, but I think he manages better than most. I compare him wth Tom Cruise or Madonna or even Paul McCartney and think, "this guy's still got the tips of his toes on the ground."