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The film does touch on roughly accurate, pivotal moments in Mr. John’s life ranging from being a child prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music to his first meeting with longtime collaborator, lyrist Bernie Taupin; his debut at the Troubadour Club; writing “Your Song” in his mum’s living room; and his triumphant sold-out Dodger Stadium concert.

Famously, Orfeo, a master poet, singer and lyrist, convincingly serenades Caronte, followed by Pluto, lord of the underworld, begging that love beat death, that his wife go home with him across the river.

She has said in the past that she sees herself as a lyrist first and singer second.

A lyrist playing to a herd of cows masticating their own ignorance, Bella often thought.

When the lute player George Xylouris was a teenager — growing up in a mountain village on Crete, not far from the Ideon Cave, where Zeus worshipers have been making pilgrimages since the end of Minoan civilization — he was working as accompanist to his father, the folkloric singer and lyrist Antonis Xylouris.