British artist reflects on the past and how he had to get to the bottom of the well to go around in the late 1980s
Elton John He lived in the skin the glory and the pain of reaching the top of his career and almost losing everything because of the excesses with chemicals. Because of this, the British artist does not hesitate to say: “Never use drugs”.
According to him, who has been sober since 1990, this would be his advice to the younger Elton, when he discovered cocaine and other narcotics.
In an interview with Smooth Radiothe musician warned:
“Never use drugs. I used drugs, they knocked down and when I recovered, I had to go through this journey to become the person I am.”
In the chat with the presenter Kate clawThe Briton reflected on his past and how drugs came into his life at the beginning of his career to face shyness.
In his assessment, the price paid is not worth it:
“We worked a lot in five years and reached the height of fame in five years. I lost the person I was originally. It was very difficult for me, and took it many years to recover it. I recovered when I was sober, which turns 35 this year, I hope.”
Elton John and the Drugs
In another interview, NPRin 2012, Elton John remembered how his Junkie routine was in the mid -1970s. In the period, he lived his commercial peak, but also the decline until the 1980s:
“It was all bleak: I was awake, smoked based, drank a bottle of Johnnie Walker, and then stayed for three days, then slept for a day and a half, woke up and, as I was very hungry, because I hadn’t eaten anything, I stuffed and ate three Bacon sandwiches, a jar of ice cream and then I was bullimated, because I was bullimated, and I did everything, and I did it all, and I did everything new.”
To this day, the artist of successes like “Rocket Man”, “Your Song” and “Tiny Dancer” It says it is still affected by the effects of cocaine abstinence:
“I still dream, at least twice a week, I used cocaine and she’s in my nose. And it’s very vivid and very disturbing, but at least it’s a call to wake up.”
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Source: Rollingstone
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