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• ROCKETMAN: ELTON JOHN’S FOTTEN 1984 WEDDG TO RENATE BLEL“SHE WAS THE CLASSIT WOMAN I’VE EVER MET, BUT WASN’T MEANT TO BE,” JOHN HAS SAID OF THE SHORT-LIVED MARRIAGE. “I WAS LIVG A LIE.”BY JULIE MILLERMAY 31, 2019FEBARY 14 1984 : ELTON JOHN AND RENATE BLEL AT ST. MARK’S CHURCH.BY PATRICK RIVIERE/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVE“IT WAS VALENTE’S DAY, AND ELTON JOHN WAS MAKG ONE LAST ATTEMPT AT BEG HETEROSEXUAL,” WROTE THE DAILY ATRALIAN, REFLECTG ON THE MICIAN’S 1984 WEDDG TO RENATE BLEL. THE NUPTIALS, WHICH ARE BRIEFLY RECREATED THE MIL BPIC ROCKETMAN, ME AS A SHOCK TO MOST OF THE WORLD; BY THAT POT JOHN’S MEGAWATT REER, THE MICIAN HAD SHARED A FIVE-YEAR ROMANCE WH HIS MANAGER JOHN REID AND REVEALED HE WAS BISEXUAL A 1976 TERVIEW WH ROLLG STONE. BUT HE HAD ALSO EXPLAED, “I’D RATHER FALL LOVE WH A WOMAN EVENTUALLY BEE I THK A WOMAN PROBABLY LASTS MUCH LONGER THAN A MAN.”JOHN HAD MET BLEL, A GERMAN-BORN SOUND ENGEER, WHILE WORKG ON HIS TOO LOW FOR ZERO ALBUM. AFTER KNOWG EACH OTHER ABOUT 18 MONTHS, JOHN PROPOSED OVER CURRY AT AN INDIAN RTRANT SYDNEY, AND THE UPLE MARRIED THE FOLLOWG WEEK—AT A CHURCH THE NEARBY SUBURB OF DARLG POT. “I SIMPLY WANT TO BE A FAY MAN,” JOHN EXPLAED AT THE TIME. “AND I’M NOT GETTG ANY YOUNGER.” JOHN AND BLEL MANAGED TO PULL TOGETHER AN EXTRAVAGANT AFFAIR A MATTER OF DAYS, THANKS TO JOHN’S TOUR PROMOTER AT THE TIME, HARLEY MEDLF.“OYSTERS WERE FLOWN OM NEW ZEALAND,” MEDLF TOLD PAGE SIX OF THE LAST-MUTE PREPARATNS AND NT MENU, WHICH CLUD LOBSTER, PRAWNS, SLLOPS, SALMON, AND A 1978 LE MONTRACHET CHATE S HEBEX JACQU PRIR. BLEL WORE A GOWN WH A HEART-SHAPED PENDANT NTAG 63 DIAMONDS—A GIFT OM HER GROOM—SEWN TO THE BODICE. JOHN, MEANWHILE, WORE A LAVENR SILK SHIRT AND WHE AT.“HE’S THE NICT GUY I’VE EVER MET,” BLEL WAS QUOTED AS SAYG, AHEAD OF THE WEDDG, BY THE UNED PRS INTERNATNAL. “I’VE HEARD ALL SORTS OF STORI ABOUT ELTON AND THAT HE’S SUPPOSED TO BE BISEXUAL, BUT THAT DON'T WORRY ME.” GUTS REPORTEDLY CLUD OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN AND JOHN MCENROE, WHILE JOHN’S MANAGER AND EX-BOYIEND JOHN REID SERVED AS BT MAN.ELTON JOHN’S EX-BOYIEND JOHN REID (CENTER) ACTG AS A GROOMSMAN AT JOHN’S 1984 WEDDG.BY PATRICK RIVIERE/GETTY IMAG.THE MARRIAGE ONLY LASTED FOUR YEARS, AND WHEN THE UPLE ANNOUNCED THEIR DIVORCE, PEOPLE REPORTED THAT BLEL AND ELTON “GENUELY TEND TO REMA BT OF IENDS.” CONTRARY TO THE UPLE’S HOPE, HOWEVER, JOHN NFSED THE 1997 DOCUMENTARY TANTMS AND TIARAS THAT THEY HAD REMAED ANYTHG BUT. “I HOPE ONE DAY THAT WE N MEET AND BE IENDS,” HE SAID. “WE HAVEN’T BEEN TOUCH, WE’VE HAD NO NTACT AT ALL WHICH IS VERY SAD, BUT SHE WANTS THAT WAY. I DON’T HAVE ANY NEGATIVE THGS TO SAY ABOUT HER AT ALL."IN A 1992 TERVIEW WH THE LOS ANGEL TIM, JOHN ATTRIBUTED THE MARRIAGE TO HIS ALHOL AND DG ADDICTN: ”EVEN THOUGH I KNEW I WAS GAY, I THOUGHT THIS WOMAN WAS ATTRACTIVE AND THAT BEG MARRIED WOULD CURE ME OF EVERYTHG WRONG MY LIFE. . YOU TAKE THAT AMOUNT [OF DGS AND ALHOL], YOU N’T HAVE ANY RELATNSHIP.” IN A 1996 TERVIEW WH THE NEW YORKER, HE RELLED ONCE GUZZLG EIGHT VODKA MARTIS 30 MUT, BLACKG OUT, AND AWAKG TO BE TOLD HE HAD GOTTEN TO A FIST FIGHT WH JOHN REID. HE WAS ALSO EP TO E ADDICTN—EVENTUALLY BUILDG UP A HAB THAT, AT S WORST, SAW HIM REPORTEDLY TAKG EVERY FOUR MUT. OF HIS CISN TO MARRY BLEL, JOHN TOLD THE NEW YORKER, “WHEN YOU TAKE A LOT OF DGS, AND YOU’RE OUT TO LUNCH HALF THE TIME. . . YOU THK A CHANGE OF SCENERY, I’LL GET ANOTHER HOE, I’LL MOVE TO ANOTHER UNTRY.”IN A 2007 TERVIEW WH THE SYDNEY MORNG HERALD, JOHN FURTHER EXPLAED, “A DG ADDICT THKS LIKE THIS: ‘I’VE HAD ENOUGH BOYIENDS AND THAT’S NOT MA ME HAPPY, SO I’LL HAVE A WIFE; THAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHG.’ AND I LOVED RENATE. SHE’S A GREAT GIRL. I ­REALLY, REALLY LOVED HER. BUT, YOU KNOW. IT IS ONE OF THE THGS I REGRET MOST MY LIFE, HURTG HER.” HE ALSO SHARED THAT HE AND BLEL HAD, AT LONG LAST, RNED.“WE LGHED AND WE CRIED,” JOHN SAID. “WE’RE ADULTS. BUT I DO REGRET [HAVG HURT HER].” HE ALSO SAID, “SHE WAS THE CLASSIT WOMAN I’VE EVER MET, BUT WASN’T MEANT TO BE. I WAS LIVG A LIE.”MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYIS THIS THE BEGNG OF THE END OF THE WRERS STRIKE?BY NATALIE JARVEYIN 2017, WHILE PERFORMG A SERI OF NCERTS ATRALIA FOR HIS ONCE A LIFETIME TOUR, JOHN SHARED A NDID INSTAGRAM POST RELLG HIS DOOMED FIRST WEDDG.“I’M SO EXCED TO BE BACK ATRALIA FOR A SERI OF SHOWS,” JOHN WROTE, ALONGSI A PHOTO OM HIS 2014 WEDDG TO DAVID FURNISH. “MANY YEARS AGO, I CHOSE ATRALIA FOR MY WEDDG TO A WONRFUL WOMAN FOR WHOM I HAVE SO MUCH LOVE AND ADMIRATN. I WANTED MORE THAN ANYTHG TO BE A GOOD HBAND, BUT I NIED WHO I REALLY WAS, WHICH ED MY WIFE SADNS, AND ED ME HUGE GUILT AND REGRET,” JOHN NTUED, JOG ATRALIA’S BATE ABOUT MARRIAGE EQUALY.INSTAGRAM NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.“TO BE WORTHY OF SOMEONE’S LOVE, YOU HAVE TO BE BRAVE ENOUGH AND CLEAR EYED ENOUGH TO BE HONT WH YOURSELF AND YOUR PARTNER,” JOHN NTUED. “ALMOST 24 YEARS AGO, I MET THE PERSON WH WHOM I ULD BE FULLY MYSELF. WHEN WE MARRIED 2014, FELT LIKE THAT FACT WAS ACCEPTED BY THE WORLD. FOR DAVID AND I, BEG ABLE TO OPENLY LOVE AND M TO ONE ANOTHER, AND FOR THAT TO BE REGNIZED AND CELEBRATED IS WHAT MAK LIFE TLY WORTH LIVG. THAT ACCEPTANCE AND SUPPORT MAK WANT TO BE AS KD, RPONSIBLE AND PRODUCTIVE MEMBERS OF SOCIETY, AS WELL AS THE BT PARENTS, THAT WE N BE. I LOVE ATRALIA. I LOVE S SPIR, S LACK OF PRETENSE, S PASSN. I HOPE N EMBRACE THE HONTY AND URAGE THAT SEEKS GAY MARRIAGE AS AN EXPRSN NOT OF SIRE BUT OF LOVE.”JULIE MILLER
• GAY BRISH MICIAN ELTON JOHN MARRI PARTNER UNR NEW LAW
• SIR ELTON JOHN AND DAVID FURNISH PLANNG THEIR WEDDG AFTER GAY MARRIAGE LEGALISED
• ELTON JOHN AND DAVID FURNISH REVEAL WEDDG PLANS, SAY THEY WANT TO "CELEBRATE" GAY MARRIAGE LAWS
• GAY BRISH MICIAN ELTON JOHN MARRI PARTNER UNR NEW LAW
• ELTON JOHN, LANCE BASS EACH GET MARRIED MARKG HOLLYWOOD’S DOUBLE GAY WEDDG WEEKEND
• ELTON JOHN MARRI GAY PARTNER UNR NEW LAW
• ELTON JOHN SLAMS VATIN FOR BLSG S ‘ROCKETMAN’ VTMENT BUT NOT GAY MARRIAGE
• JOHN MCENROE WANTS TO BOOK ELTON JOHN FOR GAY WEDDG CEREMONY AT MARGARET COURT ARENA

ROCKETMAN: ELTON JOHN’S FOTTEN 1984 WEDDG TO RENATE BLEL“SHE WAS THE CLASSIT WOMAN I’VE EVER MET, BUT WASN’T MEANT TO BE,” JOHN HAS SAID OF THE SHORT-LIVED MARRIAGE. “I WAS LIVG A LIE.”BY JULIE MILLERMAY 31, 2019FEBARY 14 1984 : ELTON JOHN AND RENATE BLEL AT ST. MARK’S CHURCH.BY PATRICK RIVIERE/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVE“IT WAS VALENTE’S DAY, AND ELTON JOHN WAS MAKG ONE LAST ATTEMPT AT BEG HETEROSEXUAL,” WROTE THE DAILY ATRALIAN, REFLECTG ON THE MICIAN’S 1984 WEDDG TO RENATE BLEL. THE NUPTIALS, WHICH ARE BRIEFLY RECREATED THE MIL BPIC ROCKETMAN, ME AS A SHOCK TO MOST OF THE WORLD; BY THAT POT JOHN’S MEGAWATT REER, THE MICIAN HAD SHARED A FIVE-YEAR ROMANCE WH HIS MANAGER JOHN REID AND REVEALED HE WAS BISEXUAL A 1976 TERVIEW WH ROLLG STONE. BUT HE HAD ALSO EXPLAED, “I’D RATHER FALL LOVE WH A WOMAN EVENTUALLY BEE I THK A WOMAN PROBABLY LASTS MUCH LONGER THAN A MAN.”JOHN HAD MET BLEL, A GERMAN-BORN SOUND ENGEER, WHILE WORKG ON HIS TOO LOW FOR ZERO ALBUM. AFTER KNOWG EACH OTHER ABOUT 18 MONTHS, JOHN PROPOSED OVER CURRY AT AN INDIAN RTRANT SYDNEY, AND THE UPLE MARRIED THE FOLLOWG WEEK—AT A CHURCH THE NEARBY SUBURB OF DARLG POT. “I SIMPLY WANT TO BE A FAY MAN,” JOHN EXPLAED AT THE TIME. “AND I’M NOT GETTG ANY YOUNGER.” JOHN AND BLEL MANAGED TO PULL TOGETHER AN EXTRAVAGANT AFFAIR A MATTER OF DAYS, THANKS TO JOHN’S TOUR PROMOTER AT THE TIME, HARLEY MEDLF.“OYSTERS WERE FLOWN OM NEW ZEALAND,” MEDLF TOLD PAGE SIX OF THE LAST-MUTE PREPARATNS AND NT MENU, WHICH CLUD LOBSTER, PRAWNS, SLLOPS, SALMON, AND A 1978 LE MONTRACHET CHATE S HEBEX JACQU PRIR. BLEL WORE A GOWN WH A HEART-SHAPED PENDANT NTAG 63 DIAMONDS—A GIFT OM HER GROOM—SEWN TO THE BODICE. JOHN, MEANWHILE, WORE A LAVENR SILK SHIRT AND WHE AT.“HE’S THE NICT GUY I’VE EVER MET,” BLEL WAS QUOTED AS SAYG, AHEAD OF THE WEDDG, BY THE UNED PRS INTERNATNAL. “I’VE HEARD ALL SORTS OF STORI ABOUT ELTON AND THAT HE’S SUPPOSED TO BE BISEXUAL, BUT THAT DON'T WORRY ME.” GUTS REPORTEDLY CLUD OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN AND JOHN MCENROE, WHILE JOHN’S MANAGER AND EX-BOYIEND JOHN REID SERVED AS BT MAN.ELTON JOHN’S EX-BOYIEND JOHN REID (CENTER) ACTG AS A GROOMSMAN AT JOHN’S 1984 WEDDG.BY PATRICK RIVIERE/GETTY IMAG.THE MARRIAGE ONLY LASTED FOUR YEARS, AND WHEN THE UPLE ANNOUNCED THEIR DIVORCE, PEOPLE REPORTED THAT BLEL AND ELTON “GENUELY TEND TO REMA BT OF IENDS.” CONTRARY TO THE UPLE’S HOPE, HOWEVER, JOHN NFSED THE 1997 DOCUMENTARY TANTMS AND TIARAS THAT THEY HAD REMAED ANYTHG BUT. “I HOPE ONE DAY THAT WE N MEET AND BE IENDS,” HE SAID. “WE HAVEN’T BEEN TOUCH, WE’VE HAD NO NTACT AT ALL WHICH IS VERY SAD, BUT SHE WANTS THAT WAY. I DON’T HAVE ANY NEGATIVE THGS TO SAY ABOUT HER AT ALL."IN A 1992 TERVIEW WH THE LOS ANGEL TIM, JOHN ATTRIBUTED THE MARRIAGE TO HIS ALHOL AND DG ADDICTN: ”EVEN THOUGH I KNEW I WAS GAY, I THOUGHT THIS WOMAN WAS ATTRACTIVE AND THAT BEG MARRIED WOULD CURE ME OF EVERYTHG WRONG MY LIFE. . YOU TAKE THAT AMOUNT [OF DGS AND ALHOL], YOU N’T HAVE ANY RELATNSHIP.” IN A 1996 TERVIEW WH THE NEW YORKER, HE RELLED ONCE GUZZLG EIGHT VODKA MARTIS 30 MUT, BLACKG OUT, AND AWAKG TO BE TOLD HE HAD GOTTEN TO A FIST FIGHT WH JOHN REID. HE WAS ALSO EP TO E ADDICTN—EVENTUALLY BUILDG UP A HAB THAT, AT S WORST, SAW HIM REPORTEDLY TAKG EVERY FOUR MUT. OF HIS CISN TO MARRY BLEL, JOHN TOLD THE NEW YORKER, “WHEN YOU TAKE A LOT OF DGS, AND YOU’RE OUT TO LUNCH HALF THE TIME. . . YOU THK A CHANGE OF SCENERY, I’LL GET ANOTHER HOE, I’LL MOVE TO ANOTHER UNTRY.”IN A 2007 TERVIEW WH THE SYDNEY MORNG HERALD, JOHN FURTHER EXPLAED, “A DG ADDICT THKS LIKE THIS: ‘I’VE HAD ENOUGH BOYIENDS AND THAT’S NOT MA ME HAPPY, SO I’LL HAVE A WIFE; THAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHG.’ AND I LOVED RENATE. SHE’S A GREAT GIRL. I ­REALLY, REALLY LOVED HER. BUT, YOU KNOW. IT IS ONE OF THE THGS I REGRET MOST MY LIFE, HURTG HER.” HE ALSO SHARED THAT HE AND BLEL HAD, AT LONG LAST, RNED.“WE LGHED AND WE CRIED,” JOHN SAID. “WE’RE ADULTS. BUT I DO REGRET [HAVG HURT HER].” HE ALSO SAID, “SHE WAS THE CLASSIT WOMAN I’VE EVER MET, BUT WASN’T MEANT TO BE. I WAS LIVG A LIE.”MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYIS THIS THE BEGNG OF THE END OF THE WRERS STRIKE?BY NATALIE JARVEYIN 2017, WHILE PERFORMG A SERI OF NCERTS ATRALIA FOR HIS ONCE A LIFETIME TOUR, JOHN SHARED A NDID INSTAGRAM POST RELLG HIS DOOMED FIRST WEDDG.“I’M SO EXCED TO BE BACK ATRALIA FOR A SERI OF SHOWS,” JOHN WROTE, ALONGSI A PHOTO OM HIS 2014 WEDDG TO DAVID FURNISH. “MANY YEARS AGO, I CHOSE ATRALIA FOR MY WEDDG TO A WONRFUL WOMAN FOR WHOM I HAVE SO MUCH LOVE AND ADMIRATN. I WANTED MORE THAN ANYTHG TO BE A GOOD HBAND, BUT I NIED WHO I REALLY WAS, WHICH ED MY WIFE SADNS, AND ED ME HUGE GUILT AND REGRET,” JOHN NTUED, JOG ATRALIA’S BATE ABOUT MARRIAGE EQUALY.INSTAGRAM NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.“TO BE WORTHY OF SOMEONE’S LOVE, YOU HAVE TO BE BRAVE ENOUGH AND CLEAR EYED ENOUGH TO BE HONT WH YOURSELF AND YOUR PARTNER,” JOHN NTUED. “ALMOST 24 YEARS AGO, I MET THE PERSON WH WHOM I ULD BE FULLY MYSELF. WHEN WE MARRIED 2014, FELT LIKE THAT FACT WAS ACCEPTED BY THE WORLD. FOR DAVID AND I, BEG ABLE TO OPENLY LOVE AND M TO ONE ANOTHER, AND FOR THAT TO BE REGNIZED AND CELEBRATED IS WHAT MAK LIFE TLY WORTH LIVG. THAT ACCEPTANCE AND SUPPORT MAK WANT TO BE AS KD, RPONSIBLE AND PRODUCTIVE MEMBERS OF SOCIETY, AS WELL AS THE BT PARENTS, THAT WE N BE. I LOVE ATRALIA. I LOVE S SPIR, S LACK OF PRETENSE, S PASSN. I HOPE N EMBRACE THE HONTY AND URAGE THAT SEEKS GAY MARRIAGE AS AN EXPRSN NOT OF SIRE BUT OF LOVE.”JULIE MILLER

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GAY BRISH MICIAN ELTON JOHN MARRI PARTNER UNR NEW LAW

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SIR ELTON JOHN AND DAVID FURNISH PLANNG THEIR WEDDG AFTER GAY MARRIAGE LEGALISED

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ELTON JOHN AND DAVID FURNISH REVEAL WEDDG PLANS, SAY THEY WANT TO "CELEBRATE" GAY MARRIAGE LAWS

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GAY BRISH MICIAN ELTON JOHN MARRI PARTNER UNR NEW LAW

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ELTON JOHN, LANCE BASS EACH GET MARRIED MARKG HOLLYWOOD’S DOUBLE GAY WEDDG WEEKEND

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ELTON JOHN MARRI GAY PARTNER UNR NEW LAW

Actrs Elizabeth Hurley also said on social media that she was and Furnish’s civil partnership was one of the first to take place after they beme legal has often ed his stat the mic world to make statements on lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr equaly.

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ELTON JOHN SLAMS VATIN FOR BLSG S ‘ROCKETMAN’ VTMENT BUT NOT GAY MARRIAGE

The pair are plottg their nuptials - eight years after they beme one of the first gay upl the UK to enter to a civil partnership December 2005. David wrote Attu magaze's Love & Marriage special: "Elton and I will marry – as a high-profile uple, we feel is our duty to do , to make sure that everyone knows that this is somethg that many gay men livg this untry never dreamed would happen.

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JOHN MCENROE WANTS TO BOOK ELTON JOHN FOR GAY WEDDG CEREMONY AT MARGARET COURT ARENA

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