Jokes on pop, though, as John writes: It made me driven.
The track wasnt even co-authored by Taupin.
I started to panic, John writes.
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The obvious course of action was simply to be honest.
But the obvious course of action didnt appeal actually telling Linda how I felt was beyond me.
So I decided to stage a suicide bid instead.
(TheRocketmandigital and Blu-ray release contains some deleted scenes that more closely mirror these events.)
Within a week theyd decided to move in together back in London.
I really was in love…that intense, guileless, naive kind of first love, John writes.
And Id just discovered sex.
It made sense to move in together.
It could also easily be the entire first act of its own feature film.
(InRocketman, we see Elton take his first snort mid-lyric during Honky Cat.)
He had a straw and some white powder.
I asked what it was, and he told me it was cocaine.
I asked what it did and he said, Oh, it just makes you feel good.
So I asked if I could have some, and he said yes.
John immediately threw up, then came back and asked for another line.
Id made the worst decision of my life, he writes, but I didnt realize it then.
Then Reid punched a reporter when she tried to intervene.
It wasnt until John hitmethat I came to my senses, John writes.
I couldnt make excuses for Johns behavior any longer.
I couldnt stay with someone who hit me.
They broke up, but Reid remained Johns trusted manager until 1998.
Johns candid answers about his relationships with men (and women, sort of) made headlines and history.
I didnt feel relieved, or nervous, or proud, John writes.
As the rest of the road crew partied with hotel staff, Sasha propositioned John.
In fact John was still deep in the grips of drug addiction.
Simon asked if Id ever had a vodka martini.
I had not, John writes.
John filed lawsuit after lawsuit against the paper and eventually won.
If theyd had a reality TV series this would have been the season finale cliffhanger.
