“Quentin had narrowed it down to three tracks and planned to run them by Uma Thurman to
let her decide”: the story behind how Urge Overkill’s cover of a Neil Diamond song ended up on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack.
The career of laid-back U.S. rock band Urge Overkill received a major boost when their cover of Neil Diamond’s “Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon” was selected for a key scene in *Pulp Fiction*. This brought the Chicago group a mainstream hit and cemented their song’s connection to Tarantino’s iconic film.
The film’s iconic soundtrack was released 30 years ago this week, just before the director’s follow-up to *Reservoir Dogs* hit theaters, and it marked a turning point for Urge Overkill. They have a few people to thank for their inclusion, notably Neil Diamond, who originally released the song in 1967. Urge Overkill were genuine fans, not in an ironic way. “We discovered a record of his called *Velvet Glow And Spit*,” the band’s Eddie Roeser told Penny Black Music. “We didn’t realize the song had been a minor hit and thought it was just really unusual. Our version is quite different from the original.”
