David and I were not the best of friends towards the end. We started out being really good friends. We used to hang out together with Marc Bolan, going to gay clubs, but I think we just drifted apart. He once called me ‘rock ’n’ roll’s token queen’ in an interview with Rolling Stone, which I thought was a bit snooty. I wasn’t his cup of tea. But the dignified way he handled his death, I mean, thank God. I knew he’d had a heart attack on stage in Berlin years ago, but not about the cancer. Everyone else take note of this: Bowie couldn’t have staged a better death. It was classy.”
— Elton John in an upcoming interview with ES magazine
H/t: The Sun
Peter Browne
Fab. Comment Bowie
Richard Hernandez
I just called him a Queen!
Damien Malachi
Well, once again, David Bowie was right.
Gus Anderson
If the rainbow striped, glitter covered, feather boa fits…….work that bitch.
Damon Robbins
Well, Bowie nailed it!
Jimm Wiedeman
Elton John holding a grudge is not one bit shocking.
Bitter old queen.
Peter Gaffney
Something a raging queen would do.
Brian Kelly-Ried
Elton just needs to let it go.
Realitycheck
I wonder if Elton realize that his comment is the very reason they were not friends…LOL
“”But the dignified way he handled his death……… It was classy.”
Elton is a crazy and fun all over the place messy queen, not classy, and David was the confuse yet cool and classy ??? Gay? Bi? Little bit of everything soup?
Wilson W Wong
And Bowie was right.
Carlos Zuniga
Well, Duh!!!!!
1EqualityUSA
Elton is a mutant.
Ogre Magi
Bowie was the Goblin King, that outranks a queen anytime!
Chris Tan
If Elton John is a token queen, David Bowie was once a closeted queen who was not proud of his sexuality!
Kal Astoga
A grudge for 40 years? Add petty and bitter to that too.
Ronnie Faulds
I’m sure Bowie lost a lot of sleep over it. Regardless of ‘queen’ Elton is a mere ‘token’ compared to Bowie
gaym50ish
Elton had a much worse feud with Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones. Richards commented that Elton John’s claim to fame was writing songs about dead blondes. Elton shot back by calling Richards an arthritic monkey.
Alan David Smith
oddly enough elton john just screwed up again. i was young when i saw him with his ridiculas out fits. he droped the feather boa’s etc. and i believe made some great music in the 80’s. and with this. he is now back in the boa in my eyes. bowie is dead. and this should have been buried. i don’t speak ill of the dead. it shows a lack of class. in my opinion.
Mike Cooke
well coming from a fat old queen who got married you are a token queen DEAR!!!!!! and the fact you were bitter for 40 years shows what a drama queen u truly are…
Carrie L McClure
John is jealous. Simple.
Chris
40 years?!? To think that Elton John gave someone else so much power that a throw away comment could result in a 40-year grudge. That’s a grudge of Biblical proportions, as in wandering through the desert and not asking for directions proportions.
I hope that Bowier realized Elton’s gift to him and thanked him for it.
Black Pegasus
Elton not only are you a Token Queen, but you’re also a money grubbing hypocrite who sells your soul to and anti gay talk radio host who pays you a million dollars. Chump on that Queen!
DuMaurier
When did we all start hating Elton John? I am so out of the loop.
scotshot
@Black Pegasus: That million dollars went to gay charity. Not a bad thing.
scotshot
David Bowie was gay, bi, str8 – whatever sold albums. Gay for pay at its worst.
The Elton John AIDS Foundation has raised over $200 million dollars since its founding, add the ripple effect and raising awareness his contribution is priceless. Token queen indeed.
Many here are calling John out for being a petty queen, what do they think they’re doing?
Jaime-Arturo Rodriguez Luevano
It’s sad that they lost 40 years of friendship. I’m sure Elton mourns over the loss of his former friend. Regret is a terrible thing. True friends should always try to forgive each other and work it out.
Stached1
LOL well it is true.
Jay A. Scaramazzo
Both lived off of their better days.
Will Glitzern
I love them both. They both loved astronauts…
Anthony Duda
I don’t think Elton John was “jealous”, as someone stated on here. His records have outsold Bowie’s worldwide by millions. And I don’t think he was holding a grudge. It just seems as though they were friends, Bowie made the comment, and they just sort of drifted apart. That sometimes happens with friends in everyone’s life. I remember reading back in the 70s that Bowie was pissed at the success of Elton’s single “Rocket Man” because he used the same producer but was more successful than his “Space Oddity”. Bowie felt John ripped him off. So there’s two sides to every story. Who knows? The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
La Ocasio
This was a bitchy comment.
Ricky Joe Montoya
he’s actually a sellout…remember the Rush Limbaugh wedding…
OzJosh
Nothing about the quote suggests EJ “held a grudge for 40 years”. That’s entirely the work of the over-reaching headline. So all the comments about him being jealous, bitchy or needing to get over it are a bit beside the point.
scotshot
@Ricky Joe Montoya:
That sell out face every penny of that money to a gay charity.
Michael
Takes nothing to make that hideous, vicious queen angry. What an embarrassment.
Bob LaBlah
Stunts (no, I didn’t say performances) such as this makes it hard to argue with ol’ David’s summation of Dame Elton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiHgjmqRP_8
Bob LaBlah
In the not too distant past Country Music decided it was time to stop fighting the Civil War so they decided to hold that years country award show in NYC. Guess who once again was dug up to perform with another ol’ once-upon-a-time star.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu0zycQMwAg
And to think David called girl on just what she was over forty years ago. Talk about being able to see into the future.
Mark Pointon
More likely Bowie turned down his advances
n900mixalot
Growwwwwse … we appear to have lost the wrong one. How unfortunate.
scotshot
@scotshot:
Correction: That sell out gave every penny to a gay charity.
jjunke
why doesnt this old hasbeen just shutup….he talks endlessly,still trying to be relevant, most people are just not interested in what he has to say anymore.
robho3
Elton is just a bitter old queen