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ELTON JOHN: THE BIG DOPE: Elton's been doing another round of interviews, telling Canadian TV that in the 80s he was smoking so much dope it nearly buggered his voice for good, and he had to have an operation to save his career. It's odd, though: we can understand that Elton's performances in the 1980s may have been undermined by dope, but does that explain why he wrote Nikita as well?