[Closed] Elton John...yet another biography/money making scheme...

Saw him this summer and he was amazing. Can’t stand the bloke, but . . . Tumbleweed Connection is one of my favourite albums

Haha - yes my spelling is atrocious.

This is a great example of why I try not to get involved in musical threads on here anymore.

Elton John, interviewed by famous fans

I enjoyed that. Ta kcr

Whatever you think about his music, the book sounds like a hoot.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/16/me-elton-john-autobiography-review

Of course when someone is as famous as he is, they will get surrounded by sycophants. He's intelligent enough to take the mickey out of himself.
At all the Elton concerts I've been to, he's interacted with the audience, been heckled by a few and given as good as he's got. He's a proper musician and definitely gives value for money.
There are some very early albums which are fabulous and I still listen to them today.
There are many, many famous musicians who, when playing live aren't that good.
Elton is up there along with Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney (of whom I'm not a fan,) Rod Stewart and Tom Jones. I'm using these people as I have seen them all live. Way after all these people have departed this mortal coil, their music will still be played.

Thanks, [b]martinhutch[/b] for that book review link; I particularly liked this

[Elton’s] book is closer in spirit to David Niven’s memoirs with their litany of namedrops – although Niven, as far as I know, never wrote a line like “I sat around, w**king, in a dressing gown covered in my own puke.”