Elton John Audiobooks

Me: a memoir from the arts and entertainment shelf, read by Taron Egerton

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Who is Elton John?

Handing a memoir to another voice is a bolder decision than it first appears. Me reaches our arts and entertainment shelf as a first-person life story that is not read by the person who lived it, and that single choice shapes the entire listen.

What the catalogue can state is the shape of the book: one volume, close to twelve and a half hours, filed with biographies and memoirs as firmly as with the arts. It is the sort of entry that assumes a listener already curious about the world it comes from, and it does not spend long on preliminaries.

Elton John in audiobooks

Taron Egerton takes the narration, which makes this an actor’s reading rather than an author’s: timing, mimicry and comic delivery where a self-read memoir would offer the grain of the original voice instead. At twelve hours and twenty-nine minutes there is ample room for digression, and memoirs of this kind tend to use it.

This one is scheduled rather than settled. It is on its way to the site instead of already sitting here, so treat the entry as a marker and check back for availability. When it does land, begin at the beginning; a life told in order is best taken in order. The current shelf is set out just below.