Elton John’s friendship with John Lennon explored in new Toronto doco

In Elton John: Never Too Late , John says he did “mountains” of cocaine with John Lennon and claims he may have brought Lennon and Yoko Ono back together. Sean Lennon may owe his existence to Elton John . In a new documentary, Elton John: Never Too Late , that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday night, the 77-year-old Tiny Dancer singer says he may have been “the catalyst” for John Lennon and Yoko Ono getting back together and having their son.

The spine of the film, directed by John’s husband David Furnish and R.J. Cutler ( The September Issue ), is intimate, somewhat confessional tapes recorded by a journalist who’s been helping John write his memoir.



As John narrates in the doc, he first met Lennon in 1973 at a video shoot for Lennon’s Mind Games album, at a time when the former Beatle and Ono had broken up after 41⁄2 years of marriage. Lennon, with Ono’s encouragement, had entered into a relationship with the much younger May Pang, who had been assisting them on the album..