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  • Love On The Rocks
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  • Gramophone record
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  • eng
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  • 1980 singles
  • 1980 songs
  • Capitol Records singles
  • Neil Diamond songs
  • Songs with music by Gilbert Bécaud
  • Gladys Knight songs
  • Songs written by Neil Diamond
  • Song recordings produced by Bob Gaudio
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  • %22Love on the Rocks%22 is a song written by Neil Diamond and Gilbert Bécaud that appeared in the 1980 movie The Jazz Singer and was performed by Diamond on the soundtrack album to the film. It was also released as a single and reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks in January 1981, during the five-week reign of (Just Like) Starting Over by John Lennon. In addition to the main chart Love on the Rocks also made it to #3 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart in the US. Billboard also rated it as the #26 pop single overall for 1981. It performed less well in the UK, reaching only #17. It was covered by Millie Jackson on her 1981 album Just a Lil' Bit Country, and by Gladys Knight on the album Great Solo Performances by Guest Artists from the Tom Jones Show, Vol. 1. Bécaud covered the song on his 1991 album Mon Copain.Billboard Magazine critic Vicki Pipkin called %22Love on the Rocks%22 a %22powerful ballad in true Diamond style.%22 Billboard also called the song %22one of Diamond's more powerful readings.%22 Neil Diamond biographer Laura Jackson describes the lyrics as taking %22a sometimes cynical look at a man who is trapped in a relationship and is disillusioned with life.%22 Allmusic critic Johnny Loftus calls it a %22lite FM favorite%22 and %22classic, raw-throated Neil.%22 Author T. Mike Childs rated it as a %22terrific%22 ballad. Pittsburgh Press music editor Carl Apone claimed that Diamond was at his best in The Jazz Singer in the songs %22Hello Again%22 and %22Love on the Rocks.%22The Darkness paid tribute to Neil Diamond's %22Love on the Rocks%22 with their own 2002 song %22Love on the Rocks with No Ice.%22
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  • Neil Diamond
  • Gilbert Bécaud
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  • Bob Gaudio
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  • 1980
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  • 1980
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  • Capitol Records
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  • 1980
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  • Love On The Rocks
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