Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me – Taupin Bernie (2024)

*THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER**A Times Best Music Book of 2023* 'Glorious! I am besotted by the life I never knew he had.' -Elton John 'Self-deprecating and refreshingly honest' - Sunday Times 'Divine. I couldn't put it down.' -Pete Townshend 'Hilarious and so emotionally true' -Cameron Crowe 'Taupin's words need no musical accompaniment. They sing with a poet's voice.' -Gary Oldman 'Eloquent and inspiring' -Robert Hilburn, author of Johnny Cash: The Life. 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, half-century-and-counting creative relationship has been chronicled in biopics (like 2019's Rocketman) and even Elton John's own autobiography, Me. But Bernie, a famously private person, has kept his own account of their adventures close to his chest, until now. In this exciting, multi-decade whirlwind, we ride shotgun with Bernie on his extraordinary life. We discover early '70s…