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He’s as excited as ever about music. He’s nostalgic for the way he used to work — for the kind of fast, cheap, disciplined record-making he did once he started bringing his touring band into the studio on albums like 1972’s “Honky Chateau.” Cutting three or four tracks a day. He’s curious to see if he can do it like that again. Taupin is writing lyrics for a new record even as we speak, John says. “I said I want the album to sound as big as the Grand Canyon and as empty as the Grand Canyon and as cinematic as the Grand Canyon,” John says. “That’s my brief.”
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