He's a legend of pop music, and his story is out of the ordinary.
This is Elton John's life.
This is Elton John's life.
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00:00All it takes is for Putin, Trump, Merkel, Macron, Trudeau to say,
00:06okay, let's, the president of China, to say, right, let's do one great humanitarian thing,
00:14let's just end this disease. They can do it like that.
00:30People who are creative are blessed and have
00:59a blessed life because they're able to do what they want to do.
01:29I went to the Royal Academy of Music when I was 11, and it's a place where I learned a lot.
01:59It was an absolute fluke. It's called right place, right time, luck.
02:22When people told me, when I was using, that I was doing the wrong thing, I was so angry,
02:27and I just told them to go away, or I actually strung along in that.
02:30I was a self-obsessed asshole, excuse me.
02:41It's a staggering achievement to actually have done this, and I don't say that flippantly.
02:59It's a tremendous achievement, and it will be, obviously, the concert of the decade,
03:04at least, I would say. Both concerts will be tremendous. It's just a staggering achievement.
03:09I'm very proud to be part of it.
03:29I lost so many friends to AIDS in the 1980s, when it was the most horrific death possible,
03:34and there was no cure and no compassion, and nobody seemed to care.
03:39But it was just something that I wanted to do because I felt so guilty that I hadn't done enough
03:46for my fellow mankind who died of AIDS, not just men, but women and children.
04:05This is one of the most exciting things that has ever happened to me.
04:15I never thought in my life I would ever be holding one of these.
04:35So
05:00we feed him, we bathe him, we do everything that a parent should do, and we give him love.
05:05He gives us so much more love back, and without doubt, it's one of the greatest things I could
05:10have ever imagined in my life. At 63 years of age, I was against having a child because
05:16I thought I was too old. I was too set in my ways. Absolutely nonsense. We've given this boy
05:21so much love. He's given us so much love. It's the greatest thing that's ever happened to us.
05:34I'm 70 next year, and I will always be a voice for AIDS. I will, till I die,
05:47be a voice to help people suffering from this disease and living with this disease.
05:56But I'll be perfectly honest with you. Young people won't listen to me because I'm not a
06:02person that is part of their culture. They need voices from their culture, people that they aspire
06:09to. We always meet the LGBT people and the AIDS people before I do a concert. It's the first thing
06:26I do. I'm so anti what's going on for the LGBT community throughout Eastern Europe. We're here
06:43to protect them. It's my duty as someone who is a visible gay man who isn't HIV to go there and try
06:51and help the situation, but get better.
07:22It's testament to the kind of men they are. Hugely philanthropic, kind, warm people
07:28who recognize that they have a powerful platform and they want to do good things with it.
07:51I'm a raggedy man, burning out his fuse, I'll carry on.