A warehouse in the Midlands is being mothballed by Asos as the online fashion seller tries to cut costs and improve its profitability. Subtitled "My Life with the Legends and Geniuses of Rock Music," King's book offers a whirlwind tour from nascent rock 'n' roll in the 1950s through the present. Tony King’s mansion flat in London’s Primrose Hill contains the spoils of a career spent at the very top of the music industry, the detritus of a life lived – to the full, to the very brim – with the likes of John Lennon, Sir Elton John, Freddie Mercury and Sir Mick Jagger. He intervened and ended up pinning Lennon to the ground: “I never knew you were so strong, dear,” Lennon quipped. By anyone’s standards, his has been a packed life – as you might expect, King has stories for miles – yet his name seldom appears in the pop culture history books.

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Eventually, King moved to LA to work with Lennon, where his duties involved dressing up as the Queen for a TV commercial advertising the album Mind Games. When I saw him I was shocked by what I saw and I realised he was not going to make it, as he was very ill.It’s a remarkable little piece of history, with an incredible tale attached to it, but discreetly hidden: you have to remove the picture from the wall and turn it over to find out the whole story.

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I was creative director of Elton’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour,” Furnish continues, “and I knew we could always rely on Tony to ensure that everything we wanted to create was executed beautifully and in the best possible taste.Meanwhile, Ono emerges from The Tastemaker as an absolute hoot, a hilarious eccentric who encourages King to take magic mushrooms before a business meeting with a music industry executive.

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Photograph: Courtesy of Sam Emerson Tony King (centre) with Elton John and John Lennon, en route to Boston in 1974. In the 1980s and 90s, he toured the world with the Rolling Stones, and worked as Elton John’s artistic director. Almost half of people who voted for the SNP at the last general election do not plan to back the party again, according to a. With a shortfall of bed spaces for students unlikely to be solved any time soon, analysts felt that Britain’s biggest. But when we got there, I was so nervous about having John Lennon in my car that I lost the ability to park.Keith Moon showed up wanting to play, but he was so drunk, the office boys had to hold him up so he could throw a dart. However, the very best parts of The Tastemaker detail his adventures in New York as an out gay man employed by RCA Records to proselytise disco as it boomed. I think the trauma of discovering who my real mother was became more evident as I grew older, but I still felt like I’d been cheated. Rather omnisexual himself, Tony had studied The Supremes’ deliciously lip-synced performances on TV’s Ready Steady Go! There is an absence of disreputable behaviour beyond Lennon taking cocaine with David Bowie until King told him “mother” (Ono) was hovering.

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Tony soon became Head of Club Promotion for RCA, which was followed two years later by a move to Creative Director for RCA.

Readers will especially enjoy King's tales about promoting the industry's superstars, including the likes of John Lennon, Elton John, the Rolling Stones and Queen, among others. His first job was to mastermind the launch of Elton John’s 1976 album, Blue Moves, at a time when Elton was the biggest star in the world.