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ELTON JOHN: Upcoming Album Delayed

Elton John's upcoming album will be delayed. Songwriting partner Bernie Taupin posts on his website that The Diving Board has been pushed back to February 2013 "due to promotional time frames and related marketing opportunities... It's disappointing that our new music won't hit the streets sooner, but in order to get things done right, it makes sense to delay its release by a few months."

But there's some better Elton news from Broadway. The Lion King, which he scored, has become the all-time box-office champ of New York theater. The show, which opened in 1997, passed Phantom of the Opera in receipts a few nights ago. It could be become Broadway's first billion-dollar show, with cumulative ticket sales now totaling more than $853 million.

Source: UPI