Elton John to write book about AIDS crisis
Mon Jan. 09 2012 9:50:37 AM |
The Associated Press
Elton John to write book about AIDS crisis
Elena Pinchuk, Ukrainian business woman and sponsor of ANTIAIDS Foundation (EPAAF) speaks during a joint press with British singer Elton John in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011. The founders of the Elton John Foundation (EJAF) and sponsor Elena Pinchuk, ANTIAIDS Foundation (EPAAF), presented to journalists their second joint charitable project. Its goal is to help girls and women who spent most of their lives in the street, to have access to HIV testing and to receive social, medical and legal assistance. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
LONDON Elton John is writing his first book, a personal account of the AIDS crisis.
The musician says “Love is the Cure: Ending the Global Aids Epidemic” will include memories of friends who died of AIDS-related illnesses, including Queen frontman Freddie Mercury.
British publisher Hodder Stoughton says the book will be published in July along with an audio book read by the British pop star. The U.S. publisher is Little, Brown.
Proceeds will go to the Elton John’s AIDS Foundation.
John said Monday the book would ask why more is not being done to cure the disease.
He said AIDS “is a disease that must be cured not by a miraculous vaccine, but by changing hearts and minds, and through a collective effort to break down social barriers.”