Lee corridor: ‘I’d fax Elton my lyrics – then he’d call me up and sing them down the phone’The moment we finished the film,we took it to the Cannes film festival. It was only a small screening and, at that point in 2000, and no one had any notion how huge it would be. But Elton John saw it,loved it, and suggested a musical. The next thing I knew, or we – Stephen Daldry,the director, and me – were flying out to his unusual York apartment. He wanted to write the songs, and we assumed his lyricist Bernie Taupin would do the words. Then Elton said: “Why don’t you do them?” So I’d write the lyrics and fax them to him,then he’d call me up and sing down the phone.
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Source: theguardian.com