Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 25, 1986, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free May 1966 Carol Burnett appears in comedy skit with Neil Diamond says hello again in to special by Patricia Brennan the Washington Post the musicians and roadies who travel with Neil Diamond were in Between Road shows when Spring fever hit on a sunny sunday afternoon and they decided to play so while Diamond went out to buy a the entourage about by one the game under its probably a Good thing in sitting Here talking to said composer and keyboard Man Tom recalling that his High school gym teacher made him do exercises As there choosing up Hensley is Art director and one of two musical directors for diamonds special Neil Diamond hello 7 Channel 7cabje 5 and Cable 4 he has written sever Al songs for diamonds including forever in Blue jeans and american popular song shares credit for the title song on Dia monds new headed for the and appeared briefly with the Star in the jazz theres some stuff in the special that quite said Neils a pretty funny fledgling comedian Diamond gets help on the show from guests Carol Burnett and Stevie first in t years but this is diamonds first to special in nine if you Haven been Able to catch him on youve been left with Only his Many albums or his one 1980 the jazz so what has he been anyway having returned and joined the made a run for his team and then left the playing Field briefly to talk about his family and private about which he is some what protective the camaraderie of his travelling and to nights which appropriately for a Man who seems to drop in and out of Public is called hello last year was kind of a rough my dad passed away last i didst do much work for eight or nine months after i kind of pulled it All together and decided i would make this my com ing we have a to special and i have a Brand new album coming out headed for the future and we have this major occasional hiatus but for grammy Winner an occasional hiatus from the Public Eye is not particularly in 1970 Diamond was the nations to Selling male but in late after a european he decided to take a sabbatical from the concert stage and work instead on his musical score for the 1973 film Jonathan Livingston which won a grammy and grossed compared with the movies Diamond saw Only 12 minutes of film rushes but was so impressed by the photog Raphy that he agreed to do the score for if producer Hall Bartlett would guarantee that 48 minutes of diamonds music would be used As then he spent the next four years getting to know myself and my to to explore different i kinds of music without the distraction of having to i came Back with a great Deal of Confidence i want As insecure about myself As a they were four of the Best years of my Diamond did not return to the stage until when he performed in Australia and new zealand at the greek theatre in los Angeles followed by the album live at the in Las where a on week show reportedly earned him and in a television the following year marked another to special and another in glad youre Here with me the same year Beautiful noise became his Lith up in a Row to be certified Gold or that summer Diamond told a re Porter that he was thinking of quit Ting concerts altogether after a scheduled performance in Moscow in saying that travelling with almost 50 people and 20 tons of equipment was becoming too com surgery in 1979 then under went 9 hours of surgery to re move a piece of Vertebra from his and then the next year starred in a remake of Al Jolson the jazz Singer with Lucie Arnaz and sir Laurence which he com posed and performed the films though panned by most the film grossed and the soundtrack sold 10 million since Diamond Hast appeared in any film or television although he has continued to compose and to turn out notably his recent i do he that basically what i that very time Onsum when you do it every i i Haven been doing a really heavy schedule like we Are in a business where transience seems almost a Way of Diamond and his entourage appear to be a relatively stable Hensley been with Diamond More than 10 but in one of the newer Richard Bennett and Alan Lindgren the other Musi Cal director for the to special have been with him 14 i camaraderie Diamond theres very Strong we All know what were out Here in Lucky to have them i consider myself very while youre moving around very youre very close when youre on the Road its its the current tour began in Pitts Burgh in then moved to Wash to locations in Massachusetts and Connecticut and to Philadelphia before returning to los Angeles for a this Diamond will begin a swing through the where he is extremely popular Kansas City fans trying to get tickets for a concert 2 years ago overloaded and temporarily knocked out the cites Telephone sys he plans to cover More of the nation throughout the its probably the largest tour Ive been involved with in a Long he we May take it but travelling also takes him away from his Home in where he does much of his and from his married for a second has two sons one in High one Only 8 and two the elder daughter attends College in Boston but studied in Spain this and the other is a High school while the tour was in the Northeast last he took time out to help her Check out the son of a dry goods went to new York University on a fencing scholarship and once planned to become a but dropped out to take a contract at a music company with a stable of Diamond is a Little reluctant to talk about his a bit protect i live a pretty quiet life i try because i find that so much of the Public part can take Over if you let you have to try to be private in a very Public profess pop Chart Success mystifies Hollywood what Are the fabulous doing hover of emf tin top of the billboard Marat he pop Chart twi to i Texas Muff Fock band that ims been in relative Tor until two month hardly anybody had heard of tie by playing 290 to a dates a the feb urdu did acquire t Titt but blues and and Wue Srock farts Arent going buy enough albums to put any act in the top the music on tuft album is 21 and the single of the title song is 34is Bluesy rack n its not overtly usually a prerequisite for mat ing the top and you certainly wont hear thirds tunes in three of the four members of the band Are verging on late 90s and Are not mtg pretty they certainly didst climb the Chart based on How they what gives mystified Kim Lead Singer and chief didst he seemed ecstatic about the but also mystified by i dont have any he weve been making albums like this for years and nobody no Why Are things clicking now i wish 1 the new Label May be part of the this is the thirds first album on lbs which May be better at promoting this kind of music than the bands previous the thunderbird Haven really had an illustrious recording they started in 1979 on to a subsidiary of with the fabulous they graduated to the Parent recording whats the butt Rockin and third rhythm Nick Lowe in a 1981 Melody maker Wilson said that he was quite Happy with but apparently he none of the albums were major which puzzled and frustrated the now Wilson blames Chrysalis for doing a poor Job of convincing radio stations to play those Chrysalis dropped the thirds in the band didst record again until the lbs associated Deal tast nobody wanted Wilson we tried no company would give us a Deal to make a nobody thought this music would we finally had to record an album with our own Money and then sell the finished product to some that How we got this Deal with lbs whatever we did with the we made people want to buy the baby Boomers Are at least part of the reason for the albums they were grooving on this kind of Bluesy Rock Roll in the when hip White rockers like Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton introduced Rock fans to blues and an album of Good blues based Rock n rail has nostalgia Appeal Tor Many Many of whom Are still avid record White fairly common in the albums like this ate rare these the Tuff enough album pushes something that not making blues based Rock n spiced with cajun Palat Able to the without a drastic sacrifice of musical pro Ducer Dave Edmunds has honed Down the musics hard some critics have suggested that Tuff enough is a hit because its the first album to capture the live spirit of the that i concert Energy comes across More strongly on various songs on their four previous what these critics Are hearing is merely Edmunds shrewd pop production some Veteran third fans have been sniping at the Tuff enough Labelling it lout Wilson was rather appalled at these claiming he has Only heard them infrequently maybe a Lew people Here Aira there Nave saw something bin they Haven t been saying Nasty sane May say they want to hear More Harmonica or something like that but nothing Cimfl Munuz out were not Selling the Only difference 1 can see on this album is that its More but if Mak ing an album More uptempo is the same thing As Selling ill eat this the fabulous thirds originated when who from the Santa hooked up with guitarist 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