Remember all those scandalous things, the big scoops, and the incredulous stories we heard or read about the pop icon? The music legend retells all those (and then some) with a lot of wit, humour and self-awareness.

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The book is replete with anecdotes not just about Elton but also people from his social circle. The name- dropping is not ostentatious, it is organic to incidents and accidents in his life. Like once, when he was often under the influence of dangerous amounts of an addictive stimulant drug, he threw a party. And he recalls, I was flying... When a scruffy-looking guy I didnt recognize wandered into the party. I loudly demanded to know what the gardener was doing helping himself to a drink. There was a moments shocked silence, broken by the sound of Bob Halleys voice: Elton, thats not the f*&@ing gardener. Its Bob Dylan.

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He even gave the iconic Andy Warhol the snub. Elton was hanging out with John Lennon doing drugs, when Warhold knocked at their hotel suite. They decided against opening the door as they didnt want to be clicked. So Warhol kept knocking and finally left.

Elton recalls, after he debuted with his new hairdo at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, a writer noted, that I looked like I had a dead squirrel on my head. He was mean, but I was forced to concede, he also had a point.

The honesty, through which he looks at himself makes it different from the regular celebrity memoirs. Its a firecracker of a gift this Diwali. He owns it.

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First Published:Oct 21, 2019 16:50 IST

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Sir Elton Johns autobiography is warm, moving and a hit - Hindustan Times