Elton John: You've got to laugh…
Phil Sutcliffe, Q, August 1988
There aren't many options when you're alleged to have cancer, be involved in scandalous sexual malpractices and your hotel room has been bugged by the no-holds-barred reptiles of Fleet Street. "It did me in", Elton John tells Phil Sutcliffe.
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