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One man is a world-famous rock star; the other a young and impressionable Australian. Their lives became inextricably entwined as, over a turbulent period of more than a decade and in exotic locations that spanned several continents, they experienced the exhilarating highs and devastating lows of an excessive and passionate lifestyle.

Elton John is the singer and songwriter superstar who single-handedly accounts for some 10 percent of international music sales. And his life has attracted the kind of interest reserved exclusively for such high-profile celebrities. For the first time it is told here by someone who knew him intimately. Through a lively mix of personal experience, human drama, rock history and social comment, Gary Clarke traces Elton's life from the late 1970s to the 1990s.

The tale he tells is controversial, tracking the riotous fast lane in the professional rock-star circuit as much as the extravagant and extraordinary events of Elton John's personal, day-to-day life: the drugs, the guys and the entourage, the battles and the bravado, as well as his sudden and traumatic marriage to Renate Blauel, a German tape operator. With great compassion he also describes, in intimate detail, the softer side of Elton, the strong relationship he had with his mother, and most especially his triumph over drug excesses.

Inisghtful and direct, poignant and sometimes shocking, Elton, my Elton is written from the heart with great candour and affection and with exclusive, insider access to Elton John's innermost secrets. It is an exciting, amusing and often risqué exposé of his roller-coaster, high sparkling, colourful life - and equally of his love affairs, doubts and occasional deepest despair.