Neil Diamond News: Neil Diamond - You Don’t Bring Me Flowers

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Albums these days are planned, scheduled and mapped out far in advance of the actual recording. So this 1978 set may be one of the freshest ever, as it was entirely brought about by a completely unplanned single.

The story of this album’s title-track �" and the whole record is constructed around its huge success �" is a peculiar one. Written as the theme for a US TV series, but never used, the song was then recorded separately by Neil Diamond and by Barbra Streisand for their own albums. Then, when a DJ made his own early mash-up of the...