Karen M
2012-01-11 05:36:20 UTC
No, it's not a memoir, but we'll take what we can get.
http://tinyurl.com/7hrr2os
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jan/10/elton-john-write-book-aids?newsfeed=true
Elton John to write book about Aids
Love Is the Cure, due in July, will include reminiscences about
Freddie Mercury and teenage activist Ryan White
Elton John in 2011
'We must build bridges of compassion' … Elton John on the fight
against Aids. Photograph: Ian West/PA
Elton John is writing his first book, a collection of memories and
meditations on the fight against Aids. Love Is the Cure: Ending the
Global Aids Epidemic, due in July, will be accompanied by an audiobook
read by the singer.
"[Aids] is a disease that must be cured not by a miraculous vaccine,"
John wrote, "but by changing hearts and minds, and through a
collective effort to break down social barriers and to build bridges
of compassion." The singer said he wants to combat the stigma
surrounding the disease, telling personal stories of friends he has
lost – and those he has kept. These will include reflections on
Freddie Mercury, the Queen frontman, who died of an Aids-related
illness in 1991, and the teenage activist Ryan White.
"Why are we not doing more?" John asked. "This is a question I have
thought deeply about, and wish to answer – and to help change – by
writing this book." Hodder & Stoughton will publish the work in the
UK, and Little, Brown in the US, with proceeds going to the Elton John
Aids Foundation. Over the last 20 years, John's organisation has
raised more than £145m for Aids-related initiatives.
Meanwhile, John is planning a "surreal" biopic musical for which he
hopes to enlist Justin Timberlake. According to John's lawyer, the 64-
year-old has no plans for a conventional written memoir.
http://tinyurl.com/7hrr2os
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jan/10/elton-john-write-book-aids?newsfeed=true
Elton John to write book about Aids
Love Is the Cure, due in July, will include reminiscences about
Freddie Mercury and teenage activist Ryan White
Elton John in 2011
'We must build bridges of compassion' … Elton John on the fight
against Aids. Photograph: Ian West/PA
Elton John is writing his first book, a collection of memories and
meditations on the fight against Aids. Love Is the Cure: Ending the
Global Aids Epidemic, due in July, will be accompanied by an audiobook
read by the singer.
"[Aids] is a disease that must be cured not by a miraculous vaccine,"
John wrote, "but by changing hearts and minds, and through a
collective effort to break down social barriers and to build bridges
of compassion." The singer said he wants to combat the stigma
surrounding the disease, telling personal stories of friends he has
lost – and those he has kept. These will include reflections on
Freddie Mercury, the Queen frontman, who died of an Aids-related
illness in 1991, and the teenage activist Ryan White.
"Why are we not doing more?" John asked. "This is a question I have
thought deeply about, and wish to answer – and to help change – by
writing this book." Hodder & Stoughton will publish the work in the
UK, and Little, Brown in the US, with proceeds going to the Elton John
Aids Foundation. Over the last 20 years, John's organisation has
raised more than £145m for Aids-related initiatives.
Meanwhile, John is planning a "surreal" biopic musical for which he
hopes to enlist Justin Timberlake. According to John's lawyer, the 64-
year-old has no plans for a conventional written memoir.