The subtitle to Rocketman is Music from the Motion Picture, which is a clear signal that this is indeed a soundtrack to an Elton John biopic, not an Elton John hits collection. While Elton John isnt absent from Rocketman: Music from the Motion Picture he comes in at the close, singing on a triumphantly dramatic reworking of Im Still Standing and taking the lead on the brand-new (Im Gonna) Love Me Again, a nice evocation of his chipper imperial era he cedes the stage to Taron Egerton, who plays the young Elton both on screen and on record. As far as the soundtrack goes, Egerton is an admirable Elton stand-in, possessing a vocal timbre thats reminiscent of John that enables him to evade imitation, which is a bit more than can be said about the lions share of the arrangements of Elton oldies. By and large, these versions are meant to stir memories of the hits you know by heart, but theyre shaped to fit the contours of the film, so they ca