For many decades, know Neil Diamond hits to score. He does this with various materials: a progressive singer / songwriter with catchy three-chord pop, middle-of-the-road ballads and even country and western. Initially Diamond wrote songs for others like eg Carole King and Gerry Goffin did. Hits by The Monkees and Jay & The Americans came from his hand. From the mid sixties Diamond also scored hits
… under his own name and he became one of America's best-selling artists. Young groups also did a generous grab in Diamonds song book. In the eighties UB40 scored a hit in the nineties Urge Overkill and ten years later it was to score the turn of Smash Mouth to hit with Diamonds classics.more