Elton John -- One Night Only by
Seventeen of Elton John's best songs from throughout his career, arranged for piano, voice, and guitar and including complete lyrics and guitar chord boxes. Titles are: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road * Philadelphia Freedom * Don't Go Breaking My Heart * Rocket Man * Daniel * Crocodile Rock * Sacrifice * Can You Feel the Love Tonight? * Bennie and the Jets * Your Song * Sad Songs (Say So Much) * Candle in the Wind * The Bitch Is Back * Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting) * I'm Still Standing * Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me * I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues.
Elton John Flower Fantasies by
Home is where Elton John indulges his lifelong passion for flowers. The vibrant gardens at his country home in Windsor, near London -- designed by Rosemary Verey and Sir Roy Strong -- are symphonies of buds and blossoms. But it is inside that Elton's flower fantasies truly bloom. Each week he commissions a stunning new array of lavish floral arrangements for his residences -- arrangements that are created on an unlimited budget and designed with boundless creativity and verve.Elton John: Flower Fantasies chronicles a year of spectacular floral arrangements in Elton's country home and London residence, highlighting the changing palette of colors that each season brings. In the text by Caroline Cass that accompanies the 120 striking color photographs, Elton talks about his love of flowers, his taste in flower arrangements, and how he uses flowers both as a means of personal expression and as a key element in his home's decor.From the living room and bedroom to special rooms such as the orangerie and the chapel, we see how Elton's magnificent flower arrangements create a mood and complement his paintings, objets d'art, pianos, and other furnishings. Along the way, we observe Elton relaxing amid the flowers and catch glimpses of his personal possessions -- hats, clothes, shoes, jewelry, and photographs. Here is the perfect gift for Elton John's many fans -- and anyone who loves to decorate with fresh flowers.
Love Is the Cure by
A deeply personal account of Elton John's life during the era of AIDS and an inspiring call to action. In the 1980s, Elton John saw friend after friend, loved one after loved one, perish needlessly from AIDS. He befriended Ryan White, a young Indiana boy ostracized because of his HIV infection. Ryan's inspiring life and devastating death led Elton to two realizations: His own life was a mess. And he had to do something to help stop the AIDS crisis. Since then, Elton has dedicated himself to overcoming the plague and the stigma of AIDS. The Elton John AIDS Foundation has raised and donated $275 million to date to fighting the disease worldwide. Love Is the Cure includes stories of Elton's close friendships with Ryan White, Freddie Mercury, Princess Diana, Elizabeth Taylor, and others, and the story of the Elton John AIDS Foundation. Sales of Love Is the Cure benefit the Elton John AIDS Foundation.
Sir Elton by
He was born Reginald Kenneth White in 1947, and he began his career in his teens pounding the piano in a pub. The world, though, would know him as Elton John, the name that for the past three decades has epitomized rock-music superstardom. From blockbuster albums like Friends and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road in the 1970s to award-winning scores in the nineties for the film and Broadway show The Lion King and the current stage hit Aida, Elton John has never failed to dazzle his audiences--and never more so than at the funeral of his close friend Diana, Princess of Wales, when he moved an entire nation with his poignant and powerful performance of "Candle in the Wind 1997" ("Goodbye England's Rose"). Epically conceived and masterfully told, Philip Norman's biography of the inimitable, legendary Elton John searches out the man behind the performer in glittering costumes and sky-high boots. Norman explores the draining addictions, the failed marriage, attempted suicides, a multimillionaire's supposed money troubles. He examines Elton's compulsions and coming out; he illuminates the creative drive that continues prodigiously and brilliantly to produce new music. What emerges is a frank, sympathetic portrait so truthful that Elton himself has said, "He's got me spot on."
The Superstars of Rock by