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Sir Elton John

    Une force dominante dans le rock et la musique populaire, particulièrement dans les années 1970, la carrière de cet artiste s'étend sur quatre décennies. Sa maîtrise du piano, influencée par les styles classique et gospel, combinée à des arrangements orchestraux audacieux et à un spectacle flamboyant, a défini son succès durable. Ayant vendu plus de 300 millions d'albums, il s'impose comme l'un des artistes les plus accomplis de l'histoire. Son impact sur la musique populaire et la place continue du piano dans le rock and roll sont indéniables.

    Moi, Elton John
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    • Moi, Elton John

      • 432pages
      • 16 heures de lecture

      In his only official autobiography, music icon Elton John writes about his extraordinary life, which is also the subject of the film Rocketman . Christened Reginald Dwight, he was a shy boy with Buddy Holly glasses who grew up in the London suburb of Pinner and dreamed of becoming a pop star. By the age of twenty-three, he was on his first tour of America, facing an astonished audience in his tight silver hotpants, bare legs and a T-shirt with ROCK AND ROLL emblazoned across it in sequins. Elton John had arrived and the music world would never be the same again. His life has been full of drama, from the early rejection of his work with song-writing partner Bernie Taupin to spinning out of control as a chart-topping superstar; from half-heartedly trying to drown himself in his LA swimming pool to disco-dancing with the Queen; from friendships with John Lennon, Freddie Mercury and George Michael to setting up his AIDS Foundation. All the while, Elton was hiding a drug addiction that would grip him for over a decade. In Me Elton also writes about getting clean and changing his life, about finding love with David Furnish and becoming a father.

      Moi, Elton John2019
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      • 144pages
      • 6 heures de lecture

      Dressed in little—or nothing—more than Jimmy Choo spikes and a single piece of Cartier jewelry, a constellation of beautiful and successful women bare all in support of the Elton John AIDS Foundation. Sophie Dahl, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Heidi Klum, Ann Heche, Rachel Hunter, Jane Leeves, Paris and Nicky Hilton, Emmanuelle Signer, Minnie and Kate Driver, Kimora Lee Simmons, and Victoria Beckham, to name a few, discard their designer outfits and strike a pose. All the pictures are taken by women, including photographers Mary McCartney, Sam Taylor-Wood, and Ellen von Unwerth.

      4 Inches2005
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