Title: The last of the popular Neil Diamond records
Product review: Heartlight, a near front to back collaboration with the legendary 80s' production/songwriting duo of Burt Bacharach & Carole Bayer Sager, would be the last Neil Diamond album to be certified platinum, produce a top 10 hit, and chart in the top 20 for well over a decade; in other words, it's the last sample from his popularity's heyday. By its own merits it hardly deserved the success it provided for the artist, since it's wholeheartedly plagued by unmemorable MOR material glazed in a slick & dated production, though its most cringe-worthy quality is how passionless Neil Diamond and his backing musicians perform the material (not like the songs allow much room for vivid interpretation in the first place). The album did produce "Heartlight", an early top 10 hit for Bacharach/Sager in the decade, but while they would move on to write and produce many hits throughout the decade, Neil Diamond drifted from major public attention for the rest of the eighties.
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