Which really really should have gone in the spring time list, but due to a slight aberration of my brain cells it slipped my mind. Can't think why as I've been listening to it endlessly thanks to Radio 2...
Anyway. Here's another singer who I'd dismissed as a 70s no hoper. It's all those terrible shirts, which apparently, so he now says were a joke that went badly wrong...
And. I've talked before about songs inspiring me, catching my emotions, but this one suddenly ripped right through to the heart of a character who wasn't even going to have much of a role originally. Then I heard this and thought, WOW... that's who Noel is.
If I tell you I've also been watching It's A Wonderful Life, you might guess where I'm headed with this.
So hear for your delectation and delight is Pretty Amazing Grace by Neil Diamond. I don't think you have to be religious to get it. And as a bonus as this is from Jonathan Ross you also get Love on the Rocks, which I thought was really naff as a teenager. Which just goes to show you need to grow up sometimes to understand some things...
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Aha,
I nearly put this on my list for the same reason. And I can give you a clue why you/we both like him. He has been working with Rick Rubin, former producer of rappers, who decided a few years ago to approach the great singers of his nation who were unappreciated. He started with Johnny Cash (see my list) with whom he did several albums. I only have the last American Highways 5 but it is glorious. His approach to Johnny Cash was to say, we don't finish till this is the best it can be. He has obviously done the same with Neil. I love this song too, and I HATED Neil Diamond
Mad Twinx
Loved lots of Neil Diamond's late sixties and early seventies stuff ("Soolaimon", "Shiloh", "She Walks on Water" [with rather loopy video, sorry]). Things started to go a bit wrong, even as early as "I am I said" (and no one heard at all, not even the chair????), then he started writing love songs to ET....
Ooh but have you heard his latest stuff Persephone? I am so going to get that album... I will be emailing you back btw, but am a leeetle bit busy this weekend..
Ah Jane a quick request - could you email to let me know how to post videos (presumably you get them off youtube?) on a blog?
J xx
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