Tony King (standing, third left) with the Ronettes, Phil Spector (seated) and George Harrison in 1964. On his walls are gifts from Elton, Jagger, Lennon, Yoko Ono and Charlie Watts, photographs of him with Mercury and The Beatles in their pomp and dozens of other mementos from a life spent in the shadows of the high life. One of the bleakest discoveries of the pandemic was quite how many people imagined themselves to be amateur epidemiologists. Balsamic vinegar has become so much part of our culinary lives that a quarter of us have it in our larders, a survey. The former Desert Island Discs presenter admitted that she had failed to rebel and had been full of anxiety.

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Lennon was in the midst of his “lost weekend”, a notoriously boozy sojourn when he was temporarily separated from Yoko Ono. The successful launch of a breakthrough respiratory vaccine by GSK has prompted the FTSE 100 company to raise its financial forecasts. Elton by this time was up and down like a barmaid’s drawers, because of the powder,” says King, with affection. Living in an era of seismic social, technological and cultural transformation, King experienced these defining moments as an influential figure in London and New York's gay scenes.Forty years ago in the centre of this wood was a heavily guarded building surrounded by a 3m high concrete wall. He spent a chunk of the 1960s attempting to work for the Rolling Stones’ manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, from a flat used by various band members as a crash pad. He started travelling to the US and while in New York happened upon the Continental Baths, “which was an eye-opener”. I think the trauma of discovering who my real mother was became more evident as I grew older, but I still felt like I’d been cheated. I saw them there the night before they went to America for their Ed Sullivan appearance and they were all excited.

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As "The Tastemaker" so powerfully demonstrates, King left an indelible imprint upon a slew of rock music's greatest stars. Eventually, King moved to LA to work with Lennon, where his duties involved dressing up as the Queen for a TV commercial advertising the album Mind Games. Pity he hasn’t shared them King has worked with music greats from John Lennon and the Rolling Stones to Elton John and Freddie Mercury. I moved to Cheltenham in Gloucestershire in 2019 because both my kids suddenly got to the age where they wanted fast. Relative outsiders in the unlikely forms of Elvis Presley and the Beatles upset and ultimately redefined the seemingly iron-clad business models that preceded them.An abashed Lennon gave it to him after a particularly raucous night in Los Angeles in the mid-1970s: drunk and furious after an altercation with Phil Spector during the recording of what became his 1975 album Rock ’n’ Roll, Lennon had smashed up the house where he was staying.

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I was running around, going to discos, getting stoned, working every hour of every day, when work and play all fell together.Manchester United fans did not turn on Erik ten Hag but he desperately needs his players to turn up for him quickly. He says he had been fascinated by the Catholic Church since he was young and had actually wanted to convert since he was a teenager. I told Elton I was going one night and he said he wasn’t sure about coming because he wasn’t really out. If you need a little joy in your life now, as the rain sheets down and the nights draw in, allow me to direct you to. This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use.