Neil Diamond: Ace Of Diamonds
Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 28 August 1976
WHAT'S A MIDDLE-of-the-road singer like Neil Diamond doing with the Band's Robbie Robertson? Making a hit album, Beautiful Noise, that's what. The two first met at Woodstock about five years ago. Then Robertson moved out to California, to a house not far from Diamond's.
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