In 1978, Taupin also appeared in an episode of "The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries", "The Hardy Boys & Nancy Drew Meet Dracula", singing backup to Shaun Cassidy. In 1988, Taupin published an autobiography of his childhood, "A Cradle of Haloes: Sketches of a Childhood". The book was released only in the UK. It tells the tale of a childhood fuelled by fantasy in rural Lincolnshire in the 1950s and 1960s, ending in 1969 as Taupin gets on the train to seek his fortune in London.