Candle in the wind MARILYN’S LIGHT SHINES ON

‘She was vulnerable to falling prey to men who did not have her best interests at heart’

In all the years since Marilyn Monroe was discovered lifeless in her bed – the victim of an apparent drug overdose – nobody has summed up her existence better than lyricist Bernie Taupin: Hollywood created a superstar and pain was the price she paid.

Since she died in 1962, not a single fact about Marilyn’s life and death has gone unexamined: Her transition