“I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be great to write a song with just one chord?’”: When Neil Diamond teamed up with Robbie Robertson

In return, Diamond would perform this album’s final track, Dry Your Eyes, with The Band at their farewell show at the ...
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“I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be great to write a song with just one chord?’ And in the restriction of writing with one chord I found a freedom that I’d never found before ...

In a 2008 interview with Q magazine, Diamond talked about the album he made with Robertson as his producer – titled Beautiful Noise. He began by explaining how he and Robertson first became acquainted ...