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| | Songwriters Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | It was 1967, four years after the arrival of The Beatles and two years before Woodstock, when a lyric writer, Bernie Taupin, then a teenager, answered the ad by submitting a bundle of his lyrics. |
 | | It has been noted in commentaries about Taupin, that the late '60s were a time of pretentiousness and general weirdness in lyrics, and Taupin has claimed that viewing those early lyrics from the vantage point of today, he understands less than 50 percent of his output. |
 | | In 1991 the Elton John-Bernie Taupin celebrated their silver anniversary with the release of a special tribute album on Polydor Records, containing new versions of the duo's best-known songs by a host of recording stars, including Eric Clapton, Sting, The Who, The Beach Boys, Phil Collins, George Michael and Rod Stewart. |
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