Description
| Product ID: | 9781529010305 |
| Product Form: | CD-Audio |
| Country of Manufacture: | DE |
| Title: | Me |
| Authors: | Author: Elton John |
| Subjects: | Popular music, Rock & Pop music, Composers and songwriters, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, Autobiography: arts & entertainment |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The first and only official autobiography by the much-loved global icon Elton John <p><b>'The rock memoir of the decade' <i>Daily Mail</i></b><br><br><b>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 <i>Rocketman</i>. The result is <i>Me</i> - the joyously funny, honest and moving story of the most enduringly successful singer/songwriter of all time.</b><br><b>______________</b><br><br><b>Read by actor and star of Rocketman, Taron Egerton, with an introduction and epilogue read by Elton John. </b><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>In <i>Me</i> 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.<br><b>______________</b><br><br><b>'Self-deprecating, funny . . . You cannot help but enjoy his company throughout, temper tantrums and all' <i>The Times</i></b><br><br><b>'Chatty, gossipy, amusing and at times brutally candid' <i>Telegraph</i></b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Macmillan |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-10-15 |