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SONGS SUNG BLUE

Fame, riches, women ... Neil Diamond has had it all, but it took an album about loss to make him cool By Craig McLean

Here's a great Neil Diamond moment. It's the late 1980s, he's at the White House, and he's dancing with Diana, Princess Of Wales. "She was a wonderful dancer," he recalls. "She was very very human.