Primitive (Neil Diamond album)

Primitive
Studio album by Neil Diamond
Released	July 16, 1984
Studio	Ocean Way, Los Angeles Westlake, Los Angeles Studio 55, Los Angeles The Complex, Los Angeles Lion Share, Los Angeles The Mix Room, Burbank
Length	39:33
Label	Columbia
Producer	Various
Neil Diamond chronology
Classics: The Early Years (1983) Primitive (1984) Headed for the Future (1986)

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AllMusic	[1]

Primitive is the sixteenth studio album by Neil Diamond. It was released in 1984 on Columbia Records. Its singles "Turn Around", "Sleep With Me Tonight", and "You Make It Feel Like Christmas" reached numbers 4, 24, and 28, respectively on the Billboard Adult Contemporary singles chart, while "Turn Around" also reached number 62 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.^[2] The album was certified gold by the RIAA on October 5, 1984.^[3]

Cash Box described "Turn Around" as "a swelling heart grabber with deft instrumentation to match its emotional lyrics".^[4]

The album ushered in a period of creative and commercial decline for Diamond that lasted, to one degree or another, until the release of the 2001 album Three Chord Opera, followed by his collaboration with producer Rick Rubin and the release of 2005's 12 Songs and 2008's Home Before Dark. While Diamond continued having some success and periodic hits, and some television specials and film appearances, the period beginning with the release of Primitive did not have for him the same level of sales, notoriety or fame that the preceding times did.