If you’re thinking of checking out the new memoir by Elton John’s lyricist to learn more about the Rocket Man, you’re out of luck. This is Bernie Taupin’s song to sing.
is a fascinating read for the pictures it paints of the music scene of the 1970s, ’80s and ‘90s but if John is what you seek, he writes, the singer-pianist is “in absentia for much of this narrative.”
“Tiny Dancer” actually describes a handful of Los Angeles women, and “I’m Still Standing” was based on a breakup suffered by Taupin. 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. I don’t remember a word of it.” It would become the highest selling single of all time.
“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’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.”
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