The long-awaited book covers his hard childhood, struggles with addiction and road to recovery.
Elton John performs onstage during his "Farewell Yellow Brick Road" tour at Madison Square Garden on November 9, 2018 in New York City. hit multiplexes.
It was a fantasy musical that went for the emotional truth, making this the perfect time to get the actual story in his long-awaited autobiography, This is the warts-and-all reality, starting with a painful childhood marked by his mother’s extreme emotional neglect and his father’s long absences and bouts of intense rage over seemingly anything young Elton did. “I [got] in trouble if I ate celery in what was deemed The Wrong Way,” Elton writes.
Elton found salvation in rock & roll, though only after years of struggling on the British pub circuit and backing American R&B greats like Patti LaBelle and Lee Dorsey. Fame came very quickly after “Your Song” exploded across the world in 1970, but Elton is much more interested in writing about all the wild adventures he had in the Seventies rather than the incredible music he created.
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