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John recently told the Times of London that the new song he and Tim Rice wrote for the new \"Lion King\" movie, \"It's Never Too Late,\" accurately describes his own journey to sobriety.

\"It's never too late to change, and that's what Simba goes through in this whole journey,\" the singer told the outlet.

\"It's never too late to...look at your life and say, 'I've got to change.' It happened to me in my life. I had an epiphany in 1990,\" he continued. \"This is about having an epiphany in your life and saying, 'I need to take a fresh look at what I'm doing.'\"

John previously said that the epiphany came following the death of teenage AIDS victim Ryan White, who'd contracted the HIV virus through a blood transfusion. White died in April of 1990, and John said, \"Six months later, I was in rehab.\"

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