He's written something new - but it's a book and not a song. In it, Elton John's longtime lyricist Bernie Taupin reveals the one song he heard as a kid that made him want to go into the music business to "tell stories."

It was Marty Robbins' famous "El Paso."

"When I heard that song, I went, 'Wow. You can write stories and have people sing them too.' And that was always my mantra all the way through my life: I wanted to be a storyteller. I didn't understand the process of songwriting or what really a lyricist was. I didn't like to be referred to as a poet and I loathe it still to this day, you know. I just always wanted to be a storyteller."

He also reveals - and it's almost impossible to fathom now - that the legendary "Candle In The Wind" originally wasn't about Marilyn Monroe at all. 

Bernie Taupin on his life in music, from the songs that inspired him to the hits he wrote with Elton John