Bernie Taupin, de fameuze tekstschrijver van heel veel nummers van Elton John vanaf diens debuutalbum ‘Empty Sky’ in 1969, heeft zijn memoires aangekondigd.

‘Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me’ gaat vooral over de samenwerking tussen hem en John, maar ‘readers visit Los Angeles with Bernie and Elton on the cusp of global fame. We spend time in Australia at an infamous rock ‘n’ roll hotel in an endless blizzard of drugs and spend late-night hours with John Lennon, Bob Marley, and Frank Sinatra. And beyond the world of popular music, we witness memorable encounters with writers like Graham Greene, painters like Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali, and scores of notable misfits, miscreants, eccentrics, and geniuses, known and unknown. And of course, even if they’re not famous in their own right, they are stars on the page, and we discover how they inspired the indelible lyrics to songs such as ‘Tiny Dancer,’ ‘Candle in the Wind,’ ‘Bennie and The Jets’, and so many more.

Uitgever Hachette Books noemt het dan ook nog ‘an exciting, multi-decade whirlwind told in a non-linear yet grounded narrative’, terwijl Taupin zelf er het volgende over zegt: ‘It’s contemplative, self-assessing and attempts to stay off the beaten path in not regurgitating what’s already been written.’

Dat gaan we allemaal nog zien, want autobiografieën van muzikanten vallen maar al te vaak tegen…

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