A rocket for Elton’s mum

RAPTUROUS receptions for Rocketman, Elton John’s authorised biopic, but I can’t help wondering if Reginald Dwight might think the film’s a bit hard on his mum, who raised him with his nan in a semi in Pinner when dad scarpered. In the movie a glamorous, yet emotionally callous, Sheila says to Elton: ‘Do you know what a disappointment it is to be your mother?’ Yet in 1992 Elton said she’d always been supportive of him and never reproached him.