RaveAir MailThe wonder of Elton John’s new memoir is that one comes away from reading a first-person account of a half-century of global stardom, extravagant drug abuse, wild promiscuity, hundreds of millions of dollars earned and burned through, and palling around with the likes of John Lennon and Princess Di with this reaction: \'Gee, Elton John is a lot like me\' ... But Elton is not like us at all. He has the star’s gift for making ordinary people see themselves in him, even while he prances around a stadium stage dressed as the Statue of Liberty ... Elton chronicles his rise to riches and excess with hilarious self-knowledge ... cringingly honest, daring the reader to turn away from descriptions of doing lines of coke while watching porn, masturbating, and vomiting on himself. Such candor suggests the ruthless honesty of a self-made man who has refused the temptation to disappear into the mythical Elton John ... a racy, funny celebrity memoir. What a surprise that it turns out to be a hero’s journey.
