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

From the Beatles to Elton John and the Rolling Stones,Tony King has been a confidante and creative muse forsome of the world’s greatest artists. Now, for the firsttime, he tells his story. The Tastemaker charts the singular life of a man who has been at the beatingheart of music’s most iconic moments for over sixty years. Leaving school and starting his career at Decca Records in 1958 at the age ofsixteen, Tony King would soon find himself becoming close friends with EltonJohn, rekindling John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s relationship, mediating aquarrelsome Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and spending time with FreddieMercury in his final days – a far cry from his childhood days in Eastbourne. Living in an era of seismic social, technological and cultural transformation,King experienced these defining moments as a stalwart in London and NewYork’s gay scenes. Alongside his heady life in showbusiness, he was witnessto the AIDS crisis and its devastating consequences: the death of family, thedeath of friends and the stultifying weight of responsibility in being calledupon to hold things together. At once profound and suffused with Tony King’s disarming warmth and unparalleledcharisma, The Tastemaker paints an intimate portrait of a musiclegend and captures the unpredictable world he stamped his indelible markupon. —- ISBN: 9780571371938 | ISBN10: 0571371930 | ISBN-13: 978-0571371938