"Heartlight"
Single by Neil Diamond
from the album Heartlight
B-side"You Don't Know Me"
ReleasedSeptember 1982
GenrePop
Length4:25
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Neil Diamond, Carole Bayer Sager and Burt Bacharach
Neil Diamond singles chronology
"Be Mine Tonight"
(1982) 		"Heartlight"
(1982) 		"I'm Alive"
(1983)

"Heartlight" is a song written by Neil Diamond, Carole Bayer Sager and her then-husband, Burt Bacharach,[1] and recorded by Diamond in 1982. It is the first track on Diamond's 1982 album, also titled Heartlight, and reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming his thirteenth (and last) top 10 hit on the chart. It also spent four weeks atop the adult contemporary chart in late 1982, and was the last of his eight #1s on that chart.[2] Reportedly, it was inspired by the 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and Diamond allegedly settled with MCA/Universal for $25,000, due to its supposedly drawing on the material of the film.[3]

Cash Box said that the song "will unquestionably stick in the minds of adult pop and A/C listeners like a piece of ear candy."[4] Billboard described it as a "pretty, romantic ballad with a light, lilting melodyline."[5]

Personnel

Chart performance

See also

References

  1. ^ William Ruhlmann. "Neil Diamond | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved 2016-10-31.
  2. ^ "Neil Diamond - Biography". Billboard. Retrieved 2016-10-31.
  3. ^ Andy Greene (17 December 2019). "Flashback: Neil Diamond's E.T. Ode 'Heartlight' Causes Legal Skirmish". Rolling Stone.
  4. ^ "Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. September 4, 1982. p. 10. Retrieved 2022-07-07.
  5. ^ "Top Single Picks". Billboard. September 4, 1982. p. 63. Retrieved 2023-01-29.
  6. ^ a b "ARIA Charts - End Of Year Charts - Top 50 Singles 1988". Aria.com.au. Archived from the original on 2014-02-04. Retrieved 2016-10-31.
  7. ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-31.
  8. ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Heartlight". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
  9. ^ "NEIL DIAMOND | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". Officialcharts.com. 2014-10-22. Retrieved 2016-10-31.
  10. ^ "Cash Box Top 100 Singles – Week ending November 13, 1982". Cash Box Magazine. November 13, 1982. Archived from the original on 2012-09-21. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
  11. ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 2016-08-11. Retrieved 2016-10-31.
  12. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1999). Pop Annual. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. ISBN 0-89820-142-X.
  13. ^ "Top 100 Year End Charts: 1982". Cashbox Magazine. Retrieved 2015-07-08.

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