SCATTERSHOT : LIFE, MUSIC, ELTON AND ME
Εκδότης Octopus , ISBN 9781800960787
"I loved writing, I loved chronicling life and every moment I was cogent, sober, or blitzed, I was forever feeding off my surroundings, making copious notes as ammunition for future compositions. . . . The thing is good, bad or indifferent I never stopped writing, it was as addictive as any drug."This is the memoir music fans have been waiting for. Half of one of the greatest creative partnerships in popular music, Bernie Taupin is the man who wrote the lyrics for Elton John, who conceived the ideas that spawned countless hits, and sold millions and millions of records. Together, they were a duo, a unit, an immovable object. Their extraordinary, halfcenturyandcounting creative relationship has been chronicled in biopics (like 2019s Rocketman) and even Johns own autobiography, Me. But Taupin, a famously private person, has kept his own account of their adventures close to his chest, until now.Written with honesty and candour, Scatterhot allows the reader to witness events unfolding from Taupins singular perspective, sometimes front and center, sometimes from the edge, yet always described vibrantly, with an infectious energy that only a vivid songwriters prose could offer. From his childhood in the East Midlands of England whose imagination was sparked and forever informed by the distinctly American mythopoetics of country music and cowboys, to the glittering, starstudded fishbowl of 70s and 80s Beverly Hills, Scattershot is simultaneously a Tom Joneslike picaresque journey across a landscape of unforgettable characters, as well as a striking, firsthand account of a creative era like no other and one mans experience at the core of it.An exciting, multidecade whirlwind, Scattershot whizzes around the world as we ride shotgun with Bernie on his extraordinary life. We visit New York with him and Elton on the cusp of global fame. We spend time with him in Australia almost in residency at an infamous rock n roll hotel in an endless blizzard of drugs. And we spend late, l
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"I loved writing, I loved chronicling life and every moment I was cogent, sober, or blitzed, I was forever feeding off my surroundings, making copious notes as ammunition for future compositions. . . . The thing is good, bad or indifferent I never stopped writing, it was as addictive as any drug."This is the memoir music fans have been waiting for. Half of one of the greatest creative partnerships in popular music, Bernie Taupin is the man who wrote the lyrics for Elton John, who conceived the ideas that spawned countless hits, and sold millions and millions of records. Together, they were a duo, a unit, an immovable object. Their extraordinary, halfcenturyandcounting creative relationship has been chronicled in biopics (like 2019s Rocketman) and even Johns own autobiography, Me. But Taupin, a famously private person, has kept his own account of their adventures close to his chest, until now.Written with honesty and candour, Scatterhot allows the reader to witness events unfolding from Taupins singular perspective, sometimes front and center, sometimes from the edge, yet always described vibrantly, with an infectious energy that only a vivid songwriters prose could offer. From his childhood in the East Midlands of England whose imagination was sparked and forever informed by the distinctly American mythopoetics of country music and cowboys, to the glittering, starstudded fishbowl of 70s and 80s Beverly Hills, Scattershot is simultaneously a Tom Joneslike picaresque journey across a landscape of unforgettable characters, as well as a striking, firsthand account of a creative era like no other and one mans experience at the core of it.An exciting, multidecade whirlwind, Scattershot whizzes around the world as we ride shotgun with Bernie on his extraordinary life. We visit New York with him and Elton on the cusp of global fame. We spend time with him in Australia almost in residency at an infamous rock n roll hotel in an endless blizzard of drugs. And we spend late, l
Πληροφορίες προϊόντος
- Eκδότης Octopus
- ISBN 9781800960787
- Κωδικός Ευριπίδη 040100082110
- Έτος κυκλοφορίας 2023
- Σελίδες 320
- Διαστάσεις
- Βάρος 500 gr