“When Tarantino first sent me the script I hated it. I didn’t want my music associated with that!”: Why Neil Diamond refused to have his song used in Pulp Fiction – and ended up regretting it

Posed portrait of Neil Diamond wearing hat .

In a career dating all the way back to the ’60s, Neil Diamond has made plenty of good decisions. After all, he’s sold more than 50 million records in the US alone.

But there are a couple of decisions he came to regret – when he turned down two of the biggest names in the entertainment industry.