Who was elton johns firts gay lover

Born September 9,Reid grew up in the Scottish town of Paisley which borders Glasgow to the east. Elton John's current husband is David Furnish, with whom he shares two sons, Elijah and Zachary. David was Elton John's boyfriend for many years prior to their wedding, which took place in Decemberwhen gay marriage became legal in the UK.

The two have been together for over 25 years. Two years later they would be facing each other in court, this time on opposing sides with John suing accounting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Andrew Haydon, director of John Reid Enterprises, claiming negligence and breach of duty.

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Or maybe not. On Sir Elton John's 77th birthday, let's look back at his first song told from a gay perspective. Taylor Swift. Their relationship as lovers lasted from until He needed to go off and play the field, which he did with gusto… There were no dramas.

Like John, Reid would struggle with drugs and alcohol and in checked into the same recovery clinic John had stayed at when he got sober in But unlike John, Reid would relapse and continue to struggle with alcohol. Shortly after Elton's first American gig in San Francisco, the pair started Elton's first gay relationship with Targon Egerton portraying Elton and Richard Madden playing John in Rocketman.

His current whereabouts are unknown, though reports list him as living in Australia or London. Featured in 'Rocketman,' Reid was John’s lover and handled the pop star's affairs for 28 years before an epic falling out. Though featured in two of the biggest music industry-based films of andto date Reid has never surfaced to publicly discuss how he is portrayed in, or comment on, either Bohemian Rhapsody or Rocketman.

The son of a welder and a shop worker, he reportedly attended Stow College in Glasgow for a short time before striking out for London in At age 18 Reid entered the music business as a promoter for EMI. By age 19 he was managing the Tamla Motown label for the U.

Their first sexual encounter is portrayed in Rocketmanwith John saying at the U. It was in San Francisco. Keith Urban. Farebrother died in at age He was a judge on the Australian version of The X Factor in and has since lived a quiet life out of the public eye.

Reid was also portrayed by Aidan Gillen in the Queen and Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsodydue to his management of the British rock group in the mid-seventies. Though it was not public knowledge at the time that the two were lovers, as a couple they made headlines in the seventies.

Both men spent big on sports cars, yachts, jewelry, and property, with Reid reportedly owning multiple homes at one point. Selena Gomez. Reid was sentenced to a month in prison in New Zealand in for knocking a journalist to the floor of a nightclub. He was also reportedly arrested in San Francisco in after hitting a hotel doorman with his cane after they argued over a waiting car parked outside for John.

I was desperate to be loved, desperate to have a tactile relationship. While ‘All The Girls Love Alice’ marked the first time John sang openly about a gay character in his pieces, the first time he sang from the perspective of a gay man was ‘Elton’s Song’ from the album The Fox.

Written by John and Tom Robinson, also a gay man, the track depicts unrequited love between a boy and an older man in what John considers “the first gay song that I. So who is Elton John dating?