Elton John encourages young singers to get their highs from music not drugs
Elton John is urging younger artists to stay off cocaine – and speaks from his own experience.
He
says: “Young musicians have disappeared into the bathroom and I’ve
gone, ‘Are you doing coke?’ And they’re going, ‘Yeah!’ I said, ‘That’s
not a good idea’ and they say, ‘It’s what I’m meant to do, isn’t it?’
“No,
you’re not. It’s a f****** horrible drug. It brings out the worst side
of your soul, you don’t need it, you’ve got so much talent.
"Stop it. It’s a f****** horror story.
“Just because Amy Winehouse , Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix died at 27, it doesn’t mean you have to.”
Speaking about his own years of excess, Elton, 68, tells Vice: “I used
to sit on my own doing lines of coke, smoking joints and drinking
scotch. I used to think, ‘Why am I doing this?’ I didn’t realise I was
an addict.”
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