Elton John: Still Standing | Meet Reginald Dwight | 119
Even the Rich
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4.4 • 11.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Reginald Dwight is a quiet, awkward kid from a troubled home. But his love of music gives him the escape he’s always needed. Nothing can shake his confidence when he’s got his Elvis record on the turntable. So when his natural talent on the piano lands him the opportunity to record an album of his own, Reginald knows it’s his chance to transform into someone bigger and more confident than himself. He’s going to become: Elton John.
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| 0:00.0 | Wundery Plus subscribers can |
| 0:01.7 | the newest season of Even the Rich before anyone else. |
| 0:04.4 | Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery App or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:07.4 | A quick heads up, this episode includes adult language |
| 0:10.4 | and descriptions of homophobia. |
| 0:12.2 | Please be advised. |
| 0:13.3 | It's 1956. |
| 0:17.0 | It's 1956 in Pinner, a working-class suburb of London. |
| 0:24.9 | Reginald Dwight is nine years old. |
| 0:27.4 | It's Friday afternoon, Regge's favorite time of the week. |
| 0:31.4 | That's when his mom Sheila stops at the store on her way home from work to buy one new 78 |
| 0:37.0 | RPM record. One record a week is all Sheila can afford, so she tries to make it count. |
| 0:44.0 | Reg is also in a good mood because his dad is somewhere else. |
| 0:48.5 | He doesn't know or care where. |
| 0:50.7 | He just prefers it when he's gone. |
| 0:53.0 | Reg's father Stanley is a lieutenant in the Royal Air Force, |
| 0:56.0 | and he treats Reg with militaristic sternness. |
| 1:00.0 | When Stanley is home, all he and Sheila do is fight. |
| 1:04.1 | Like many young couples at the time, |
| 1:06.2 | their marriage happened during the upheaval of World War II. |
| 1:09.9 | They met his teenagers shortly before Stanley joined up with the RAF. |
| 1:14.3 | They got married three years later after spending almost all of that time apart. |
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