Billy Elliot the performances of Julie Walters, Gary Lewis and Jamie Bell in particular. In 2004, the magazine "Total Film" named "Billy Elliot" the 39th greatest British film of all time. Stephen Warbeck scored the music for the film. The soundtrack was released on 11 March 2002, and includes several well-known glam rock and punk songs from the likes of T. Rex and the Clash. The soundtrack also contains pieces of dialogue from the film. In 2004, English singer/songwriter Elton John joined forces with the film's screenwriter Lee Hall to produce a musical adaptation of the film, which premiered 31 March 2005
Billy Elliot been accepted, coinciding with the end of the miners' strike, and he leaves home to attend. In 1998, 25-year-old Billy takes the stage to perform the Swan in Matthew Bourne's "Swan Lake", as Jackie, Tony, and Michael watch from the audience; his father is visibly moved by the performance. Lee Hall developed "Billy Elliot" from his play "Dancer", which premiered as a rehearsed reading in 1998 at the Live Theatre in Newcastle upon Tyne. He was heavily influenced by photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's book "Step by Step", about a dancing school in nearby North Shields. Writing in 2009, Hall said that