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There is a pivotal scene in Rocketman where the teenage Elton is shown trying to connect with his father through music, rifling through his record collection and holding up an album for them to enjoy together.īut Stanley scolds him and instructs him never to touch the records without permission. That doesn't sound like a man who discourages his kids.' I was hopeless on the piano so Dad left a guitar and a trumpet out for me with a few teach-yourself books. He was in a swing band himself, so I see no reason why he'd have thwarted Elton. 'Dad bought a piano for Elton and had it sent round to where he was living with his mother.' (This claim is backed by Edna who kept the £68 receipt for the second-hand Collingwood pianoforte with its walnut finish.) 'It's rubbish to suggest otherwise,' he says. In Rocketman, when Elton's mother Sheila, Stanley's first wife, tells him their son is being put forward for a Royal Academy place, Stanley says disdainfully: 'Do you really think he has got that kind of talent?'Īs Rocketman, starring Taron Egerton (right), rewrites his own family history, Geoff feels he has to speak out in defence of their father (played by Steven Mackintosh, left)Īccording to Geoff, Stanley, who adored music, shared his passion with all his sons. In the film, the young Elton is shown heartbroken, waiting for his father in the half light at the top of the stairs.Įlton later shares this painful 'memory' with strangers during a group therapy session in rehab for drink and drugs, leaving viewers in no doubt about the emotional scars it left.Ĭrucially, Geoff also believes the film is wrong about Stanley's lack of support for his eldest son's musical ambitions. He was there when Elton was born and he did not stop caring.' 'Dad was the one who registered Elton's birth. 'I just cannot believe that,' says Geoff. It means Geoff refutes Elton's long-time claim, almost the opening scene in Rocketman, that Stanley, then a Flight Lieutenant in the RAF, came home from a lengthy posting overseas and demanded dinner instead of racing upstairs for a reunion with his son. If one of us was upset, he'd do something silly like pretend to be a chimpanzee or he'd start tickling us.' 'As a kid, my memories of Dad are of him laughing and larking around. In the movie, Stanley is portrayed as unenthusiastic about Elton pursuing a music career, byt Geoff has rubbished these claims 'He was a product of a time when men didn't go around hugging each other and showing their feelings every minute of every day, but he had plenty of love in him for all of us. 'This coldness, it's a million miles away from what Dad was like,' he says. He begins by demolishing the image of Stanley as a man incapable of affection, pointing out that his father was as keen on a goodnight kiss from his sons as their mother Edna, Stanley's second wife. Now however, as Rocketman, starring Taron Egerton, rewrites his own family history, he feels he has to speak out in defence of their father. Since then, Geoff has barely been in contact with his brother, preferring to lead an alternative lifestyle in the small town of Ruthin in North Wales, where he hand-makes yurts and harps and organises music festivals.
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Geoff says: 'A friend said "You've got four wonderful sons, Stan", to which he replied, "I've got five wonderful sons." '
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He was incredibly proud of Elton and everything that he achieved.'Īs evidence, he tells how Elton was still in his father's thoughts on his deathbed in 1991 with Geoff, Stanley Jnr, Robert and Simon all standing vigil.
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'Dad had a big heart and he loved us all equally. 'That's not the Dad I remember,' says Geoff, one of Stanley's four younger sons by his second marriage. Geoff has barely been in contact with his brother, preferring to lead an alternative lifestyle in the small town of Ruthin in North Wales, where he hand-makes yurts and harps and organises music festivalsīut, says the star's half brother Geoff Dwight, the real betrayal is of Stanley by Elton because these allegations – now being screened in cinemas across the UK and the US – are just not true.