The Tastemaker: My Life with the Legends and Geniuses of Rock Music

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The cover of The Tastemaker: My Life with the Legends and Geniuses of Rock Music features numerous photos of its author side-by-side with musical legends. Writing in The Guardian last month, Alexis Petridis dubbed King “a Zelig-like figure whose career in the music industry connects the Beatles and the Rolling Stones to Elton John, Freddie Mercury and the late 1970s zenith of disco. There were the iconic songstresses he famously romanced, Sade and Grace Jones, (this gentleman did indeed kiss and tell in his memoir) and the many superstar DJs of the world who passed through the island as Ibiza cemented its reputation as the clubbing capital of the world. The publisher’s announcement helped explain the appeal of both King himself and his prospective book, referring to him as the “[c]onfidante and creative muse for some of the world’s greatest artists, including Elton John, Freddie Mercury and John Lennon. Cooper’s family initially believed she had fallen down the stairs and reopened wounds from a recent operation as she recovered from cancer.In between opening an art gallery, “shagging lots of birds” and having loads of parties (not to mention a divorce, a second marriage, a second child and finally a second divorce), Tony also acquired a boat – the vessel that would take him back out onto the water and back out into the great wide world.