{"id":485976,"date":"2019-05-17T02:12:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T08:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=836575"},"modified":"2019-05-17T02:12:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T08:12:07","slug":"watch-elton-john-and-taron-egerton-perform-rocket-man-at-cannes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/watch-elton-john-and-taron-egerton-perform-rocket-man-at-cannes\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Elton John and Taron Egerton Perform \u2018Rocket Man\u2019 at Cannes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GettyImages-1149628931.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><em>Rocketman<\/em> star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/taron-egerton\/\" id=\"auto-tag_taron-egerton\" data-tag=\"taron-egerton\">Taron Egerton<\/a> made a surprise appearance during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/elton-john\/\" id=\"auto-tag_elton-john\" data-tag=\"elton-john\">Elton John<\/a>\u2019s set at the Cannes gala party for the film. Egerton, who plays John in Dexter Fletcher\u2019s upcoming biopic, took the stage at the afterparty at Carlton Beach to perform \u201cRocket Man\u201d alongside the singer.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m8B9nkpmwGE?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>John also perform \u201cI\u2019m Still Standing,\u201d his 1982 multi-platinum single. The singer paid tribute to the song\u2019s music video, which he shot at Carlton Beach and at the Carton Hotel Intercontinental. John told the crowd, \u201cThis has been a very emotional night for me. Even if the movie doesn\u2019t make one penny at the box office, which will kill Jim Gianopulos, it is the movie I wanted to make.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The singer and his songwriting partner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bernie-taupin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bernie-taupin\" data-tag=\"bernie-taupin\">Bernie Taupin<\/a> spoke about their reactions to the premiere of the film in a video for Paramount. \u201cTo be honest with you I was blown away,\u201d John said. \u201cI was very moved. I cried the first time I saw it and I cried a lot this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ROvWdWGAOXQ?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Rocketman<\/em>, which also stars Jamie Bell, Richard Madden and Bryce Dallas Howard, premiered at the French film festival and will be released in theaters May 31. The soundtrack, <em>Rocketman (Music From The Motion Picture),<\/em> is out May 24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-elton-john-taron-egerton-perform-rocket-man-cannes-836575\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocketman star Taron Egerton made a surprise appearance during Elton John\u2019s set at the Cannes gala party for the film. Egerton, who plays John in Dexter Fletcher\u2019s upcoming biopic, took the stage at the afterparty at Carlton Beach to perform \u201cRocket Man\u201d alongside the singer. [embedded content] John also perform \u201cI\u2019m Still Standing,\u201d his 1982 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-485976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 12:23:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}