Bernie Taupin praises fourth wife for career ‘renaissance’ over last decade

Bernie Taupin has praised his “very savvy and wickedly funny” woman for elevating his vocation implicit the past decennary – which saw him triumph an Oscar, beryllium inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and person the Library of Congress’s Gershwin Prize.

The British lyricist is best-known for his long-time collaboration with Sir Elton John spanning much than 5 decades, with hits including Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Bennie And The Jets and Crocodile Rock.

Taupin was honoured with an outstanding vocation accomplishment grant during the 15th yearly Hollywood Music successful Media Awards ceremonial successful Los Angeles, which helium attended with his wife, Heather Taupin, and girl Charley Indiana May.

“I’ve had a benignant of renaissance of sorts successful the past 10 years, and that’s owed successful nary elemental portion to idiosyncratic who was each time going retired and pushing for maine and elevating everything I bash and elevating my name, and that is the precise savvy and wickedly funny, Heather Taupin,” the euphony prima said of his 4th wife, whom helium joined successful 2004.

“She’s done much for maine successful 20 years than anybody ever did before.”

It comes aft Taupin and Sir Elton received the Library of Congress’s Gershwin Prize successful March, months aft Sir Elton inducted Taupin into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

In 2020, Taupin and Sir Elton won the Oscar for champion archetypal opus for (I’m Gonna) Love Me Again from the biopic Rocketman.

The way besides won the champion archetypal opus astatine the Golden Globes, pursuing Taupin’s 2006 triumph successful the aforesaid class for A Love That Will Never Grow Old from deed movie Brokeback Mountain.

Presenting Taupin with his vocation accomplishment award, US prima Jimmy Jam described the lyricist arsenic “one of the top poets successful euphony history”.

Taking to the stage, Taupin said helium is simply a “man of fewer words” but noted the “contradiction” fixed his vocation arsenic a songwriter.

“When I started out, I was conscionable fortunate to get retired of a beingness of drudgery and go what I ever wanted to be, which is idiosyncratic who tells stories and who got to constitute creatively,” the 74-year-old said.

“And luckily…I got to beryllium associated with the precise champion determination is, and you cognize who I’m talking about,” helium said, referencing Sir Elton.

“There are radical retired determination that laic their beingness connected the enactment each time and support homes and prevention lives and support the defenceless.

“But I truly judge that those who get to bask the originative process are the luckiest radical alive…it is simply a God-given gift.”

Taupin said helium feels grateful that “I’m not connected the bootheel of a boss”.

“Nobody gets to archer maine what to do, I get to constitute what the hellhole I privation to constitute and I americium truthful fortunate for that,” helium added.

Taupin and Sir Elton were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame successful 1992.

Taupin astir precocious wrote the archetypal way Never Too Late which features successful Sir Elton’s upcoming Disney+ documentary Elton John: Never Too Late.

Among those astatine the Hollywood Music successful Media Awards, which honours composers and songwriters for their publication to movie and TV, was nominee Finneas O’Connell -who posed connected the reddish carpet with his begetter Patrick O’Connell.