Me - Official Autobiography 'The rock memoir of the decade' Daily Mail 'The rock
star's gloriously entertaining and candid memoir is a gift to the reader' Sunday
Times In his first and only official autobiography, music icon Elton John
reveals the truth about his extraordinary life, which is also the subject of the
smash-hit film Rocketman. The result is Me - the joyously funny, honest and
moving story of the most enduringly successful singer/songwriter of all time.
______________ Christened Reginald Dwight, he was a shy boy with Buddy Holly
glasses who grew up in the London suburb of Pinner and dreamed of becoming a pop
star. By the age of twenty-three, he was performing his first gig in America,
facing an astonished audience in his bright yellow dungarees, a star-spangled
T-shirt and boots with wings. Elton John had arrived and the music world would
never be the same again. His life has been full of drama, from the early
rejection of his work with songwriting partner Bernie Taupin to spinning out of
control as a chart-topping superstar; from half-heartedly trying to drown
himself in his LA swimming pool to disco-dancing with the Queen; from
friendships with John Lennon, Freddie Mercury and George Michael to setting up
his AIDS Foundation. All the while, Elton was hiding a drug addiction that would
grip him for over a decade. In Me Elton also writes powerfully about getting
clean and changing his life, about finding love with David Furnish and becoming
a father. In a voice that is warm, humble and open, this is Elton on his music
and his relationships, his passions and his mistakes. This is a story that will
stay with you, by a living legend. ______________ 'Self-deprecating, funny . . .
You cannot help but enjoy his company throughout, temper tantrums and all' The
Times 'Racy, pacy and crammed with scurrilous anecdotes - what more could you
ask from the rocket man' Guardian (Book of the Week) 'Chatty, gossipy, amusing
and at times brutally candid' Telegraph