, too, but that’s what happened after his song “Heartlight” hit the airwaves in September 1982. He wrote the tune with his friends Carole Bayer Sager and Burt Bacharach after they saw the movie together at a New York theater. The song never mentions the movie by naming of any of the characters, but the title refers to the moment near the end when E.T.’s heart illuminates as he’s saying goodbye to Elliott.
“Heartlight” fell out of Diamond’s set list in the late Nineties, but it made a triumphant return as the final encore of his 2015 world tour. It lit up hearts every single night and no slick movie-studio lawyers could take that away from him.
Total Bullshit.