Bernie Taupin: good lyricist, bad writer
The songs he wrote with Elton John may be works of art. His bloated memoir is not.
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Jude Rogers
Jude Rogers is the author of “The Sound Of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives” (White Rabbit)
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