![]() ![]() It’s like writing songs: You write what you feel like writing at any given time. “Doing it in a linear fashion, I think would have bored me, basically. His feelings and encounters with the royal family get one chapter, as does his trips to Mexico. Taupin rejected writing a linear memoir, instead taking a page from Bob Dylan’s “Chronicles” and collecting his thoughts in themes or locations. “He’s totally inside, but, in a way, he’s outside and can live something of a normal life in the way Elton John can’t.” “He got to live like a rock star, but he didn’t have to be one and that gives him a certain kind of clarity,” said Schafer, who has worked on books by Brian Wilson, Lou Reed and Buddy Guy. He and John’s first album, “Empty Sky,” was “an acceptable debut, but more importantly, a harbinger of growth and improvement.” Later, the album “Jump Up!” was “definitely subpar.”īen Schafer, an executive editor at Hachette Books who worked with Taupin on the memoir and is thanked in the acknowledgements, said “Scattershot” benefits from a writer living in two worlds. He also isn’t shy about criticizing his own work. But I also compliment the ones that deserve to be complimented.” ![]() “I call out a few people, some more than others. But you have to call people out,” he said in the interview. ![]() “I always find that people tend to tiptoe around in autobiographies. Of Andy Warhol, he writes: “Talking to Andy was like conversing with an 8-year-old girl” and he wasn’t a fan of Hugh Hefner: “He was the possessor of a perpetual, passive smirk that I found unsettling.” I don’t remember a word of it.” It would become the highest selling single of all time. When he and John revisited the song to honor Diana, Princess of Wales, Taupin spent just half an hour and acknowledges in his memoir that “if you put a gun to my head right now and threatened to kill me if I didn’t recite the lyric, I’d be a dead man. Taupin reveals he once punched John Belushi, ate a half block of opium on a flight from New York, split his pants at a reception at Kensington Palace and that Marilyn Monroe was not the initial choice to anchor “Candle in the Wind.” ![]()
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