Reginald Dwight wanted to be a rock star. By age twenty-three, this young Brit had renamed himself Elton John and was about to take the US by storm on his first tour. This official autobiography traces Elton John's life and all its ups and downs, including rejected music and an attempted self-drowning, as well as dizzying chart-topping success and finding love with David Furnish and their path to fatherhood. You know his music, of course, and now here's your chance to know Elton John the man.