Heartlight

Performer: Neil Diamond
Artist: Burt Bacharach; Paulinho Da Costa; Alex Acuna Y Su Acuarela De Tambores
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: Personnel: Neil Diamond (vocals); Dean Parks, Lee Ritenour, Doug Rhone (guitar); David Boruff (alto saxophone); David Foster, Burt Bacharach, Michael Omartian (piano); Neil Steubenhaus (bass); Jim Keltner, Alex Acuna (drums); Paulinho Da Costa, King Errisson, Victor Feldman (percussion); Julia Tillman Waters, Maxine Willard Waters (background vocals). Producers include: Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, Neil Diamond, Alan Lindgren, Tom Hensley. Although Diamond has continued to sell healthy quantities of his albums and to fill arenas for his concerts, Heartlight and its title song, which was a Top Ten hit, were his last record releases as what might be called "a front'line artist," one who makes contemporary music for a contemporary audience and sells a million copies on release. It's a typical album for Diamond at this point, full of romantic sentiments rendered in highly produced settings and employing the cream of L.A. studio musicians, but lacking the excitement of his early work and the ambition of his middle period. ~ William Ruhlmann

With a career as a hitmaker stretching across the decades, Neil Diamond has purveyed catchy, three-chord pop/rock, progressive singer/songwriter material, middle-of-the-road balladry, and even traditional country. He started out as a Brill Building hitmaker; a songwriter for hire, he worked alongside the likes of Carole King and Gerry Goffin, and penned hits for the Monkees and Jay & the Americans. His solo career took off in the mid 1960s and made him one of America's most successful recording artists and concert attractions for a long time to come. Even decades down the road, younger groups such as UB40 in the '80s, Urge Overkill in the '90s, and Smash Mouth in the 2000's were still scoring hits with Diamond's evergreen compositions.

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