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A Cradle of Haloes is the story of a childhood fuelled by romanticism played out in the flat brown farmland of post-war Lincolnshire.

Raised in a succession of rural locations, Bernie Taupin devises his own entertainment with a vivid imagination influenced by literary heroes and pop icons. Back in the reality of the day, he embarks on teenage rebellion with his own gang after a conker ambush, experiences the torment of first lofe and endures a series of short-lived jobs, until a desire to stretch his boundaries causes him to make a decision that will change his life. And all the time in the background there is the relentless pulse of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Animals as they take the Sixties by storm.

A bitter-sweet odyssey of determination, Bernie Taupin's story stands above all as a salute to the great adventure of childhood.