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Bernie Taupin
Reference Number. BTAW1
Description
An original Owmby Gazette four page local Parish magazine dating to February 1961, hand-written, edited, sketched and signed on numerous occasions in ink by Bernie Taupin
There are various articles / titles relating to ; The Postman / Whisky / Roadmen / Near at Hand / Advertisements / Editor / Owmby Dogs / Owmby Parsons / Taupins House / Owmby / The Village / Name the Rivers
| Certification: | The magazines were written / collated / edited and drawn by 11 year old Bernie Taupin and date between June 1960-August 1961, when he lived as a young man in the village of Owmby-by-Spital in Lincolnshire. The magazines were given to and purchased for 4d at the time by friends of his family Mr and Mrs Ernest Burkitt. She being the local piano teacher and he a farmer within the village. The magazines were recently found and came into the possession of their grand-son Andrew. Bernie Taupin had always showed an early flair for writing and sketching. At age 15, he left school and started work as a trainee in the print room of the local newspaper The Lincolnshire Standard with aspirations of becoming a journalist. He soon left and then worked several part-time dead-end jobs before when aged 17, he answered the 1967 NME advertisement that eventually changed his life and led to his collaboration with Elton John |
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| Size: | 25x20cm (4 lined exercise book pages Back to Back) |
| Condition: | Average-Good. Ageing but no rips or tears |
