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Robert Hillburn (reviewer, L.A. Times) : Neil Diamond, who is making his Los Angeles debut this week at the Troubadour, is an excellent reminder of what made early rock such an exciting sound.
The writer of such songs as "Sweet Caroline" and "Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show" exhibited at his opening Tuesday the same strong vocal and pounding guitar-bass-drum beat that ushered in the new era in pop music in the mid-1950s.??It is a flowing, unpretentious, driving sound that has been lost in much of today's sophisticated rock and poetic searching. It is nice to have Diamond bring it back again.
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The writer of such songs as "Sweet Caroline" and "Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show" exhibited at his opening Tuesday the same strong vocal and pounding guitar-bass-drum beat that ushered in the new era in pop music in the mid-1950s.??It is a flowing, unpretentious, driving sound that has been lost in much of today's sophisticated rock and poetic searching. It is nice to have Diamond bring it back again.