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Popular American singer-songwriter Neil Diamond\u2019s encounter with the devotees.
\nFAMILY WEEKLY: I understand you did considerable delving into religious tracts while you were working on the \u201cSeagull\u201d score.
\nNEIL DIAMOND: That\u2019s right. By chance a Hare Krishna kid came knocking on my door about then, wanting to give me literature and such. I invited him in. We talked for a while, and I asked him to read the script and tell me what he thought of it, had him make notes on it. I wound up working with him about six weeks\u2014put him up in an apartment, rented him a car\u2014until I reached the point where I had to work alone on it. He wanted me to go off with him to India and sit in a cave. I said that sounded great and I\u2019d love to, but now I had to write this thing. I gave him a plane ticket, and he went while I settled down to pull it all together.<\/p>\n
NOTE: The album Jonathan Livingston Seagull grossed more than the film itself and won the 1974 Grammy for Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture. It reached number 1 in the album charts in Australia that year, number 2 in the US, and was certified two times platinum in the US and Canada, platinum in France, gold in Germany, Hong Kong, Netherlands and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n
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