In 1983, Elton John married sound engineer Renate Blauel in Australia after a “whirlwind courtship.”

In many ways, Renate Blauel is the forgotten woman of the music business. In the recent Elton John biopic, Rocketman, she is featured in a very brief sequence portraying a whirlwind marriage and divorce from the flamboyant singer. But the truth of it is that she was actually Elton John’s wife for four years.