October 17, 2019

Elton John's autobiography 'Me' - "outrageously enjoyable"

"It quickly becomes clear in Me that few people are more suited to the celebrity autobiography genre, given that he combines the most essential ingredients of the form" - Guardian writes about Elton John's new autobiography, written with the help of music critic Alexis Petridis - who "has a journalist’s eye for the comically absurd, such as Elton’s predilection for sexual voyeurism competing with his innate tidiness, and he makes sure there is a laugh out loud moment on pretty much every other page". Still, it's John's work, and quite auto-ironic - "he makes fun of no one more than himself. He is utterly, astonishingly, hilariously self-lacerating".