In April 1975, when my relationship with Britt was just getting going, I left England and became a tax exile. This didn't go down particularly well with the British press, who thought I was betraying the land of my birth. It didn't go down especially well with Elton John, either. Round at his place one evening, I told him I was thinking of quitting Britain, and he called me a traitor and put on Elgar's 'Pomp and Circumstance Marches' at a volume so high that we couldn't talk over it.
