“He never saw me [perform],” says Elton of his father.
ELTON ON...
HIS TROUBLED CHILDHOOD
“Both of them I was frightened of,” Elton says of his parents, Stanley and Sheila Dwight, who have now passed. “They were abusive. They were violent.
I used to walk on eggshells in case I did anything wrong. My mother, when I was a year old, beat me till I bled with a wire brush to make me potty-trained. My mum said,
