Word Podcast 311 - Alexis Petridis

Published: Dec. 5, 2019, 12:34 p.m.

b'Alexis Petridis was very lucky Elton John chose him to help tell the story in his best-selling memoir "Me". Elton John\'s equally lucky Alexis agreed because without him it probably wouldn\'t be half as good as it is. In fact it\'s two stories: the first is the story of a musical career that seems to be headed nowhere until a chance meeting with a lyricist began a partnership which operated in an unprecedented way and led to unprecedented success; the other is a personal story of how a very tense little boy from Pinner grew to be able to afford all the addictions on a Pharaonic scale, managed to conquer them and belatedly found contentment in a state that wasn\'t even invented when he was first a superstar. Every home should have a copy because everyone in that home would find at least some of it jaw-dropping. Alexis told us what it was like to write and what he learned about life in the process. Get bonus content on Patreon


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