However, in spite of Sir Rod’s claims, Sir Elton insisted he tried to contact him in August 2018.He also addressed Rod’s quip and said: “Maybe he had meant it jokingly and it came out wrong.”Elton later heard that Rod wanted to get in touch with him again and asked for his mobile number to speak to him.He said: “I heard back that he couldn’t talk because he was on ‘constant vocal rest’ between shows.”Unfortunately, Elton was less than impressed when he discovered Rod had been making negative comments about his film, Rocketman.He divulged: “That seemed fair enough, until I noticed his complete vocal rest didn’t preclude him going on more chat shows and radio programmes calling me ‘money grabbing’ and slagging off [my film] Rocketman.“He was.
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