Headed For the Future

Performer: Neil Diamond
Artist: Stevie Wonder; Burt Bacharach; Herbie Hancock; David Foster; Paulinho Da Costa; Maurice White
Distributor: (Independently by Label)

Notes: Personnel includes: Neil Diamond (vocals); David Foster (guitar, keyboards); Bobby Caldwell (guitar); Stevie Wonder (keyboards, drums); Tom Hensley, Greg Philanganes, Burt Bacharach, Herbie Hancock (keyboards); Nathan East (bass); John Robinson (drums); King Errisson, Paulinho Da Costa (percussion); Maurice White, Jason Scheff, Bill Champlin (background vocals). Producers include: David Foster, Burt Bacharach, Carol Bayer Sager, Stevie Wonder, Maurice White. Engineers include: Allen Sides, Mick Guzauski, Tom Perry. Having stumbled with Primitive, Diamond attempted, with Headed for the Future, to re-establish himself as a contemporary artist, co-writing with Stevie Wonder, recording songs by Bryan Adams and Maurice White of Earth, Wind & Fire, and employing nine producers and nine recording studios. The result was a slight upturn in sales and Diamond's last singles-chart entry with the title track. But the album was also overblown and unfocused, record-making by committee, and Neil Diamond as an individual artist was getting lost in the process. ~ 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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