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When you consider Neil Diamondās legacy, you have to specify which Neil Diamond youāre talking about: The professional songwriter whoās penned standards for countless artists? The exemplar of ultra-personal singer-songwriter fare? The glitzy entertainer behind anthems like āCracklinā Rosieā and āAmericaā? Born in 1941 and raised in Brooklyn by Jewish immigrant parents who ran a clothing shop, Diamond first made his name as a Brill Building tunesmith (alongside folks like Carole King and Gerry Goffin), providing The Monkees with a jangle-pop gem worthy of their Fab Four forebears: 1966ās āIām a Believer.ā At the same time, his own solo albums teemed with soulful sing-alongs that proved adaptable to any genre: āKentucky Womanā got rocked up into a breakthrough hit for Deep Purple, while UB40 famously gave āRed Red Wineā a reggae makeover in 1983. (And, of course, thereās not a karaoke bar in the world that hasnāt worn out its backing track of āSweet Caroline.ā) But Diamondās swinging-ā60s pop was undercut by disarming ruminations on loneliness, like āSolitary Man.ā And in the ā70s, he reinvented himself as a denim-suited Sinatra on the lavish live set Hot August Night, while ascending to adult-contemporary sainthood with the strings-sweetened Streisand duet āYou Donāt Bring Me Flowers.ā But a pair of intimate, Rick Rubin-produced albums in the mid-2000s remind us that behind the big-stage spectacle is an artist whoās always seeking to communicate heartfelt emotions in the simplest terms.
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