Scattershot: life, music, Elton and me. Bernie Taupin. 2023.

Half of one of the greatest creative partnerships in popular music, Bernie Taupin is the man who wrote the lyrics for Elton John, who conceived the ideas that spawned countless hits, and sold millions of records. Together, they were a duo, a unit, an immovable object. Their extraordinary creative relationship is the stuff of legend, but Taupin, a famously private person, has kept his own account of their adventures close to his chest. Until now.

In this exciting, multi-decade whirlwind, we ride shotgun with Bernie on his extraordinary life. We discover early ‘70s New York with Elton on the cusp of global fame. We spend late night hours with John Lennon, with Bob Marley, and hanging with Frank Sinatra in LA. We witness memorable encounters with Graham Greene, Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol and scores of notable misfits, miscreants, eccentrics and geniuses, some of whom inspire the indelible lyrics to songs such as Tiny Dancer, Candle in the Wind, Bennie and the Jets and so many more.