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Elton John and Brandi Carlile Talk Writing Music for His New Doc,’ Never Too Late,’ Teaming Up For Soaring Theme Song
Elton John and Brandi Carlile talk about writing 'Never Too Late' for his new documentary; watch the video.
The documentary, helmed by R.J. Cutler and David Furnish, was originally called Farewell Yellow Brick Road, “which was really boring,” John tells Billboard. “I remember looking at the liner notes to Captain Fantastic and seeing this autobiographical rock opera play out that was written by another man about Elton and it was just like the greatest love story I think I’d ever seen,” says Carlile. For John, as he watched archival footage he’d never seen before, including recording Goodbye Yellow Brick Road at the Chateau studio in France, “it reaffirmed the fact that we made good music.
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