Beautiful Noise (album)

Beautiful Noise is the third album for Neil Diamond on Columbia Records, and was released in 1976. "Dry Your Eyes" was performed with The Band at their farewell show and is featured in Martin Scorsese's The Last Waltz.

Beautiful Noise marked a radical departure in production, style, arrangements and compositional diversity for Diamond and is considered by many to be his finest all around album. It was billed at the time of its release as something of a "comeback" album, and did mark a new and highly productive phase of Diamond's recording and touring career.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Neil Diamond; except where indicated

1. "Beautiful Noise"
2. "Stargazer"
3. "Lady-Oh"
4. "Don't Think...Feel"
5. "Surviving the Life"
6. "If You Know What I Mean"
7. "Street Life"
8. "Home Is a Wounded Heart"
9. "Jungletime"
10. "Signs"
11. "Dry Your Eyes" (Diamond, Robbie Robertson)

Personnel

• Neil Diamond - vocals
• Richard Bennett - guitar
• Bob Boucher - bass
• Larry Knechtel - piano
• Alan Lindgren - piano, Moog
• Dennis St. John - drums
• Robbie Robertson - guitar
• Jesse Ed Davis - guitar
• Garth Hudson - organ
• Jim Keltner - drums
• Jim Gordon - drums
• James Newton Howard - ARP synthesizer
• Joe Lala - percussion
• Mac Rebennack - Hammond organ
• Bob James - piano, arrangements
• Tommy Morgan - harmonica
• Bob Findley - trumpet
• Jerome Richardson - flute, clarinet
• Linda Press - background vocals
• Nick DeCaro - arrangements

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