2023 Vinyl LP Reissue Cut at Abbey Road Studios and Issued as Part of the Elton John Remastered Vinyl Series

2013 comeback album The Diving Board served as Elton John's first solo studio release in seven years. Produced by T Bone Burnett, the album features 12 new songs written by Elton and his longtime lyricist Bernie Taupin, as well as three piano interludes. The Diving Board returned Elton to the piano, bass and drums lineup that marked the artist's introduction to worldwide audiences more than 50 years ago. It debuted at No. 3 in the UK album charts – Elton's highest-charting studio album in this home country since 2001's Songs From The West Coast and yielded the singles "Home Again," "Mexican Vacation (Kids In The Candlelight)," and "Can't Stay Alone,"

Elton explained, "In many ways, I feel like I'm starting again, making records. Several years ago when beginning to work with T Bone and being in the studio with Leon Russell for The Union, I had to ask myself, 'What kind of music do I really want to make?', and I realized that I had to go back to go forward again. I needed to strip away the excesses and get back to the core of what I do as an artist. That's what The Diving Board represents. I'm incredibly excited about every aspect of this album: The performances, T Bone's production, Bernie's lyrics and the songs we've created. The Diving Board is the album I've been waiting to make for decades."

According to T Bone Burnett, The Diving Board also evokes memories of the producer's first exposure to Elton John as a live performer, "I saw Elton at the Troubadour in 1970, in a legendary week of shows. Those shows never left me. A three piece band - piano, bass, and drums, like one enormous instrument - just killing it. So we started from there. I wanted to be able to superimpose this recording over my memory of the sound and the wild intelligence of those shows. From that perspective, forty years down the road, The Diving Board is an album of music by a master at the peak of his artistic powers."

Issued as part of the Elton John Remastered Vinyl Series, this reissue is faithful to the original track listing, packaging, and was cut at Abbey Road Studios.