The I Index

Rocket Man: The Life of Elton John

Bottom of the pile

8

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

15/100

Critics

2/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Mark Bego

Publisher:

Pegasus Books

Date:

January 7, 2020

The colorful and kaleidoscopic life of one of the world's most original and talented musical artists.

What The Reviewers Say

June Sawyers,
Booklist
So does the world need another Elton John biography? So compelling and entertaining is prolific pop music biographer Bego’s portrait that the answer is in the affirmative.
James Collins,
Library Journal
Bego tells a gripping story of the musician’s escalating fame and fortune.
Wesley Stace,
The Wall Street Journal
Though Mr. Bego claims to be a rock and roll 'purist' his book has songs attached to the wrong album, songs attributed to the wrong songwriter and lyricists misidentified as songwriters...horrible typos...swaths of reviews quoted as if to fill a word count. Language seems alien to Mr. Bego...and his English is tortured.

Publishers Weekly
... [a] fawning set of fan’s notes.