DIVING BOARD,THESo the story goes like this. Inspired by their work on the Leon Russell duet album The Union, producer T Bone Burnett encouraged Elton John to return to making albums like he used to in the old days for 2013's The Diving Board, harking back to the days when he wrote quickly and recorded with little more than a rhythm section. This all sounds like a major shift in aesthetic for John, but Elton has been on a decade long quest to tap into that old magic,