The story of Neil Diamond as a professional musician began in the 1960s, and after a successful run as a songwriter, Diamond stepped into the spotlight. Between 1966 and 1974, he scored 15 Top 20 hits, including chart-topping classics like "Cracklin' Rosie" and "Song Sung Blue." His whole schtick as a mature, swaggering, thoughtful soft rock star then started to wear thin, only for Diamond to come roaring back in the late 1970s with "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" and "Desiree." Neil Diamond was cool again, and Hollywood came calling.

Convinced Diamond's theatricality, charisma, and appeal would translate to the big screen, movie producers built a film project around the musician: a remake of the 1927 saga "The Jazz Singer," which starred one of the era's biggest stars, vaudevillian and bla

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