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Here are 13 of the best celebrity moments from his book.
A random assortment of performers first told him he was gay:People form adjoining tables became involved.
Then, somehow, P.J.
Proby became embroiled in the conversation.
When I arrived, they wereallthere.
John and I just nodded, dumbstruck.
I asked her how she could bear to touch it.
Character, young man, she nodded sternly.
John gestured at me to see who it was.
I looked through the spyhole.
My reaction was a peculiar combination of relief and incredulity.
John, I whispered.
John shook his head frantically and drew his finger across his throat.
Dont answer it, he hissed.
What do you mean dont answer it?
There was more knocking.
John rolled his eyes.
Has he got that fucking camera with him?
I looked again through the spyhole and nodded.
Andy took his Polaroid camera everywhere.
Right, said John.
And do you want him coming in here taking photos when youve goticiclesof coke hanging out of your nose?
I had to concede that I did not.
We all ended up back at the Pierre hotel me, John, Yoko, Tony and John Reid.
Then he began doing his mind-reading act.
It had been a bizarre day.
I loved them, even though Crisco Disco once refused to let me in.
I was with Divine, too, the legendary drag queen.
I know, I know: Elton John and Divine getting turned away from a gay club.
And wed have fantastic lunch and dinner parties.
Franco Zeffirelli came for lunch and revealed that his close friends called him Irene.
Simon and Garfunkel had dinner one night, then played charades.
They were terrible at it.
What does she think shes doing?
Sir Ian McKellen came dressed as Widow Twankey.
Bryan Adams sang and Sam Taylor-Wood did a version of Love to Love You Baby.
