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Elton John: Start of a New Era

Penny Valentine, Sounds, 26 February 1972

MIDNIGHT ON Monday evening and in his luxury ranch-style house in Surrey, where the carpet grows deep and the huge knife-edged plants threaten to eat you whole, Elton John is playing piano and singing — just for the hell and relaxation of it all.

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