In his new book “Scattershot,” Elton John’s longtime lyricist and friend tells (almost) all about their partnership and his life beyond the spotlight.
But soon enough, he figured it out. In late 1967 he partnered with a singing piano player named Reg Dwight to write songs and work on demo recordings. In October of 1969, after years of not coming up with much, Taupin, 19, wrote the lyrics to “Your Song” in 10 minutes, after being fed a lovely breakfast by Reg’s mother, with whom they were staying in the London suburbs.
Taupin had the same access to the byproducts of fame — drugs, nightclubs, money, the company of other nocturnal famous people, nice hotels — as actual rock stars did, but he managed to avoid its burdens. “I have always attempted to inhabit a world of normality,” he writes. “The cocoon of fame would kill me.”“Scattershot” isn’t a musical memoir exactly.
Though their work partnership and friendship continues to this day, once fame hit they would never be that close again. “From the moment we made our mark, we severed our umbilical cord and went our own way,” writes Taupin, with an almost visible shrug. As John’s stardom grows, Taupin, who writes alone and seldom visits the studio or goes on the road, finds himself at loose ends.
Taupin doesn’t say much about his own personal life. Wives — he had four — go mostly unmentioned. At the end of “Scattershot,” things happen in a rush: Taupin falls in love with the woman who would become his fourth wife and the mother of his two daughters, and buys a ranch outside Santa Barbara where he can indulge his passion for competitive horse cutting. He becomes an acclaimed visual artist, and a Presbyterian.
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