Elton John will sing very little on the Rocketman soundtrack

We are less than a month from the release of Elton John's biopic Rocketman, who promises to tell a fantastic and rated R version of the life of the famous singer. You would be forgiven for assuming that the project authorized by John – which stars Taron Egerton as former Mr. Reginald Dwight – would also feature some of his famous songs, but:

Variety reports tonight that new details on the film's soundtrack have just appeared, including the information that John and Egerton will follow in duet on a new original title and who will not want, if he please, give us an Oscar, "(I'm going) love me again.) And, apparently, that's also the only Elton on the soundtrack of the film. Although the film contains many pieces written by John and Bernie Taupin, they have all been re-recorded, with Egerton as singer and Giles Martin as producer.

John himself speaks of the decision to move away from this aspect of the project:

It was so important that the music that I composed and recorded was to be sung by Taron. I left Taron in the hands of Giles Martin, whom I implicitly trusted because he is brilliant. I did not want to be in the shadow of Taron, I was watching the process, I trusted them to do what they had to do, in an artistic way, and I listened back to the results that I did. were astonished.

Which is a pretty noble intention, of course. But if Egerton showed that he could at least do Elton John's worthy karaoke, it still means that the final result will be an album essentially The greatest hits of Elton John, but the worst-Yes, yes, "the Rocketman Soundtrack "is probably a better way to sell that to fans.