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HELLO, AGAIN.(Neil Diamond's songs )

The New Yorker

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During a performance at Madison Square Garden last August, the sixty-four-year-old singer and songwriter Neil Diamond asked everyone in the audience to turn to a neighbor and say, "I love you very much." Several thousand people, many of them women over the age of forty, did as he requested, but some giggled after saying the words. "Why are you laughing?" Diamond asked. "Love is not funny."

Nothing is funny in Diamond's songs. They can be inexplicably grave and mysteriously worded, even at their sunniest and most catchy. The best ones sound like the pleas of a love-struck man from another place--perhaps a small Eastern European city--who has an unusual gift for ...

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