Scattershot
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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, half-century-and-counting creative
relationship has been chronicled in biopics (like 2019's Rocketman)
and even John's 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
Taupin's singular perspective, sometimes front and center,
sometimes from the edge, yet always described vibrantly, with an
infectious energy that only a vivid songwriter's 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, star-studded fishbowl of '70s and '80s Beverly Hills,
Scattershot is simultaneously a Tom Jones--like picaresque journey
across a landscape of unforgettable characters, as well as a
striking, first-hand account of a creative era like no other and
one man's experience at the core of it.An exciting, multi-decade
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, late night hours
with John Lennon, with Bob Marley, and hanging with 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. 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.Unique and utterly compelling, Scattershot
will transport the reader across the decades and around the globe,
along the way meeting some of the greatest creative minds of the
20th century, and into the vivid imaginings of one of music's most
legendary lyricists.
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