Elton
says has a few productive years left
Elton talks to LBC Radio about Royal Albert Hall plans, fund-raising,
UK government, AIDS awareness, gun laws, eye lasers, and knighthoods
Monday
6 January 2003 @ 22:52 - GMT
...Elton says: "Sometimes
you wake up tired, and that happens to anybody in in any profession.
But I love what I do. I am soon 56 years and figure I have a few years
left at this rate."
...Elton says: "I
have my criticism of the government. Gordon Brown [finance minister]
wrote me a letter, answered me back. He just said that it was unfair
what we said, blah, blah, blah. And we then wrote back another letter
saying no it's not unfair, here are the facts."
...On singles sales proceeds
to EJAF: "No, that stopped years ago. It was bureaucratically
a nightmare. The territories where you sell singles in, we had to stop
that. We were leaving ourselves open to so many investigations."
..."God knows what I'm going to
look like without the glasses because I now look in the mirror and I
can't see!"...
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