Yeah, it's a good film, well made, great acting, even better music ... but ....the showbiz biography genre has one story: Hardscrabble beginnings, rise to the top, drug/alcohol-fueled spiral to the bottom, then semi-positive ending.
We've seen it all before.
When his dad was being cruel to him, I kept thinking of the song from one of the Austin Powers films: "Daddy, why didn't you love me?"
This man used to pal around with Princess Diana, he jammed with his idol John Lennon, he was an early crusader in the fight against AIDS. We get none of that.
See it for the music, because if you see it for the drama you'll be asking yourself 'how much of this is true?'
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