Neil Diamond: The Jekyll and Hyde of Pop
Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 12 June 1971
NEIL DIAMOND is a latter day Jekyll and Hyde. The quiet, hesitant, sensitive man you meet in a plush London hotel suite is nothing like the man you see later on the Festival Hall stage.
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