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Neil Diamond
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Diamond in Baronial 2012
Born

Neil Leslie Diamond


(1941-01-24) January 24, 1941 (age 81)

Brooklyn, New York, U.Due south.
Occupation
  • Vocalist-songwriter
  • player
Years agile 1962–present
Spouse(south)

Jayne Posner

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(m. 1963; div. 1969)​


Marcia Murphey
(m. 1969; div. 1996)[a]

Katie McNeil

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(m. 2012)​
Children iv
Musical career
Genres
  • Rock
  • pop
  • folk
  • state
  • soft rock
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • guitar
Labels
  • Bang
  • Uni
  • MCA
  • Columbia
  • Capitol (US)
  • Virgin EMI (UK)
Website neildiamond.com

Musical artist

Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American vocalist-songwriter, musician and occasional actor. He has sold more than 100 one thousand thousand records worldwide, making him ane of the all-time-selling musicians of all time.[one] [two] He has had x No. 1 singles on the Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts: "Cracklin' Rosie", "Song Sung Blue", "Longfellow Serenade", "I've Been This Way Earlier", "If You Know What I Mean", "Desirée", "You Don't Bring Me Flowers", "America", "Yesterday's Songs", and "Heartlight". Thirty-eight songs by Diamond have been featured in the Top 10 on the Billboard Adult Gimmicky charts. He also played in movies such as The Jazz Vocalist, a musical drama picture show.

Diamond was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984 and into the Rock and Curlicue Hall of Fame in 2011, and he received the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Accolade in 2000. In 2011, he was an honoree at the Kennedy Middle Honors, and he received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.[three]

Early life and didactics [edit]

Diamond was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a Jewish family. All iv of his grandparents were immigrants, from Poland on his father's side and Russia on his mother'southward.[4] [5] [six] [7] [viii] His parents were Rose (née Rapoport) (1918-2019) and Akeeba "Kieve" Diamond (1917-1985), a dry-goods merchant.[9] [10] He grew upwardly in several homes in Brooklyn, having likewise spent four years in Cheyenne, Wyoming, where his father was stationed in the ground forces.[11] In Brooklyn he attended Erasmus Hall High School[12] and was a member of the Freshman Chorus and Choral Society, along with classmate Barbra Streisand;[ten] : 155 Diamond recalled they were not shut friends at the time: "We were two poor kids in Brooklyn. We hung out in the front end of Erasmus High and smoked cigarettes."[13] After his family moved to Brighton Beach,[fourteen] [fifteen] he attended Abraham Lincoln High School[16] [17] and was a member of the fencing team.[11] Also on the squad was his all-time friend, future Olympic fencer Herb Cohen.[18] [19]

For his 16th altogether, he received his showtime guitar.[xx] When he was 16 and nevertheless in high school, Diamond spent a number of weeks at Surprise Lake Military camp,[21] : 21 a military camp for Jewish children in upstate New York, when folk singer Pete Seeger performed a small concert.[22] Seeing the widely recognized singer perform, and watching other children singing songs for Seeger that they wrote themselves, had an immediate upshot on Diamond, who then became aware of the possibility of writing his own songs. "And the adjacent thing, I got a guitar when nosotros got back to Brooklyn, started to take lessons and almost immediately began to write songs," he said.[22] He added that his allure to songwriting was the "first real interest" he had growing up, while also helping him release his youthful "frustrations".[22]

Diamond too used his newly developing skill to write verse. By writing poems for girls he was attracted to in school, he before long learned it often won their hearts. His male classmates took notation and began asking him to write poems for them, which they would sing and use with equal success.[10] : x He spent the summer post-obit his graduation as a waiter in the Catskills resort area. In that location he beginning met Jaye Posner, who would years after get his wife.[21] : 26

Diamond adjacent attended New York Academy as a pre-med major on a fencing scholarship, again on the fencing squad with Herb Cohen.[23] [24] [b] He was a member of the 1960 NCAA men's championship fencing squad.[25] Frequently bored in class, he found writing song lyrics more to his liking. He began cutting classes and taking the railroad train upward to Tin Pan Alley, where he tried to get some of his songs heard by local music publishers.[22] In his senior twelvemonth, when he was just ten units short of graduation, Sunbeam Music Publishing offered him a 16-calendar week job writing songs for $50 a week (equivalent to about The states$430 per week, in 2020 dollars[26]), and he dropped out of higher to accept it.[22] [c]

Career [edit]

1960s [edit]

Diamond was not rehired after his 16 weeks with Sunbeam, and he began writing and singing his own songs for demos. "I never really chose songwriting," he says. "It just absorbed me and became more and more important in my life."[22] His first recording contract was billed as "Neil and Jack", an Everly Brothers-type duet with high school friend Jack Packer.[11] They recorded the unsuccessful singles "Y'all Are My Love at Terminal" with "What Volition I Practice", and "I'm Afraid" with "Till Yous've Tried Love", both records released in 1962. Cashbox and Billboard magazines gave all four sides excellent reviews, and Diamond signed with Columbia Records as a solo performer later in 1962. In July 1963, Columbia released the single "At Night" with "Clown Boondocks"; Billboard gave an excellent review to Clown Town, and Cashbox gave both sides excellent reviews, merely it notwithstanding failed to brand the charts. Columbia dropped him from their characterization and he went back to writing songs in and out of publishing houses for the next seven years.

He wrote wherever he could, including on buses, and used an upright piano higher up the Birdland Club in New York City. One of the causes of this early on nomadic life as a songwriter was his songs' wordiness: "I'd spent a lot of fourth dimension on lyrics, and they were looking for hooks, and I didn't really understand the nature of that," he says.[22] He was able to sell only about one song a calendar week during those years, barely enough to survive on. He found himself only earning plenty to spend 35 cents a day on food (U.s.$3 in 2020 dollars[26]).[22] But the privacy that he had in a higher place the Birdland Club allowed him to focus on writing without distractions. "Something new began to happen. I wasn't under the gun, and of a sudden interesting songs began to happen, songs that had things none of the others did."[22] Amid them were "Cherry, Cherry" and "Solitary Man". "Solitary Human being" was the first record that Diamond recorded nether his own name which made the charts. It remains i of his personal all-time favorites, equally information technology was most his early years as a songwriter, even though he failed to realize it at the fourth dimension. He describes the song as "an outgrowth of my despair".[ten] : 37

Diamond spent his early career in the Brill Building. His first success as a songwriter came in Nov 1965 with "Sunday and Me", a Top 20 hit for Jay and the Americans. Greater success followed with "I'm a Believer", "A Piddling Bit Me, a Piffling Bit Y'all", "Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)", and "Love to Love", all performed past the Monkees. He wrote and recorded the songs for himself, just the embrace versions were released before his own.[28] The unintended consequence was that Diamond began to gain fame as a songwriter. "I'm a Believer" became a gold tape within two days of its release and stayed at the top of the charts for seven weeks, making information technology the Pop Music Song of the Year in 1966.[x] : 44

"And the Grass Won't Pay No Listen" brought covers from Elvis Presley (who also interpreted "Sweet Caroline") and Mark Lindsay, former lead singer for Paul Revere & the Raiders. Other notable artists who recorded his early songs were the English hard-rock band Deep Purple, Lulu, and Cliff Richard.[d]

In 1966, Diamond signed a deal with Bert Berns's Bang Records, then a subsidiary of Atlantic. His first release on that label was "Solitary Human", which was his first true hit as a solo artist.[east] Diamond followed with "Cherry, Cherry" and "Kentucky Woman".[10] : 37 His early concerts featured him opening for bands such as Herman'southward Hermits and the Who.[ten] : 45 As a guest performer with The Who, he was shocked to see Pete Townshend swinging his guitar like a club and and then throwing information technology confronting walls and off the phase until the instrument'due south neck broke.[10] : 46

Diamond began to feel restricted by Bang Records because he wanted to tape more ambitious, introspective music, such as "Brooklyn Roads" from 1968. Berns wanted to release "Kentucky Adult female" as a single, merely Diamond was no longer satisfied writing elementary pop songs, so he proposed "Shilo", which was not most the Civil War but rather an imaginary childhood friend. Blindside believed that the song was not commercial plenty, so it was relegated to beingness an LP track on "But for Yous". Diamond was also dissatisfied with his royalties and tried to sign with another tape label after discovering a loophole in his contract that did not bind him exclusively to either Spider web 4 or Tallyrand, just the outcome was a serial of lawsuits that coincided with a slump in his record sales and professional success. A magistrate refused WEB Four'due south request for a temporary injunction to forbid Diamond from joining another record company while his contract dispute continued in court, but the lawsuits persisted until February 18, 1977, when he triumphed in courtroom and purchased the rights to his Bang-era master tapes.[ten] : 51 [30]

On March 18, 1968, Diamond signed a deal with Uni Records;[30] the label was named later on Universal Pictures, the owner of which, MCA Inc., later consolidated its labels into MCA Records (at present chosen Universal Music after merging with PolyGram in 1999). His debut album for Uni/MCA was Velvet Gloves and Spit, produced by Tom Catalano, which did non chart, and he recorded the follow-up Blood brother Love's Traveling Salvation Bear witness at American Sound Studios in Memphis with Tommy Cogbill and Chips Moman producing.[thirty]

1970s [edit]

In late 1969, he moved to Los Angeles. His sound mellowed with such songs every bit "Sweet Caroline" (1969), "Holly Holy" (1969), "Cracklin' Rosie" (1970) and "Vocal Sung Blue" (1972), the last two reaching No. i on the Hot 100. "Sweet Caroline" was Diamond's first major hit after his slump. In 2007 Diamond said he had written "Sweet Caroline" for Caroline Kennedy after seeing her on the cover of Life in an equestrian riding outfit,[31] simply in 2014 he said in an interview on the Today Testify that it was written for his then married woman, Marcia. He could not discover a good rhyme with the proper name "Marcia" and so used the proper noun Caroline.[32] [33] It took him only one hr, in a Memphis hotel, to write and etch it. The 1971 release "I Am...I Said" was a Pinnacle v hit in both the US and Uk and was his about intensely personal effort to date, taking over four months to complete.[34]

In 1971, Diamond played seven sold-out concerts at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles. The outdoor theater, which was noted for showcasing the best of current entertainers, added a stereo sound system for the first time. Diamond was too backed by a 35-piece string orchestra and half-dozen bankroll singers.[10] : 86 Afterward the first night, one leading newspaper called it "the finest concert in Greek Theater history."[10] : 87

I have a honey-hate human relationship with songwriting. I dearest information technology considering it'south and then satisfying...when information technology works. I hate it because it forces y'all to dig inside yourself. It is without question the most difficult thing I do.

Performing, on the other hand, is the most blithesome and happiest thing I practice. The bigger the audience the more anticipation, the more excitement.

Neil Diamond, 1977[35]

In Baronial 1972, he played again at the Greek, this time doing 10 shows. When the evidence was first appear, tickets at the 5000-seat theater sold out chop-chop.[10] : 93 He added a quadraphonic audio organization for his performance to create full environs-sound. The operation of August 24, 1972, was recorded and released as the live double album Hot August Night. Hot August Nighttime demonstrates Diamond'southward skills equally a performer and showman, as he reinvigorated his dorsum catalogue of hits with new free energy. Diamond recalled: "Hot August Night captures a very special bear witness for me. We went all out to really knock 'em dead in L.A."[10] : 93 Many consider it his best work; critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine called Hot Baronial Dark "the ultimate Neil Diamond record... [which] shows Diamond the icon in full glory."[36] The album became a archetype, and was remastered in 2000 with boosted selections. In Australia, which at the time had the virtually Neil Diamond fans per capita of any country,[10] : 94 the album ranked No. 1 for 29 weeks and stayed in their top 20 bestsellers for two years.[10] : 94 [37]

In the autumn of 1972, Diamond performed for 20 sequent nights at the Wintertime Garden Theater in New York City.[x] : 95 That theater had not staged a one-man testify since Al Jolson in the 1930s.[ten] : 95 The approximately 1,600-seat Broadway venue provided an intimate concert setting not mutual at the fourth dimension, with every performance reportedly sold out.[10] : 95 It besides made Diamond the first stone-era star to headline on Broadway.[10] : 95 The review in the New York Times stated:

Neil Diamond's one-man show seemed, on the face of it, to be a advised idea. Ane-human shows accept traditionally been associated with talents like Judy Garland and Danny Kaye. But Mr. Diamond is conspicuously a advised young human and one with both the musical rail record and the performance macho to bring it off...He needn't worry about comparisons with the likes of Garland and Kaye.[x] : 95

After the Winter Garden shows, Diamond appear that he needed a break, and he engaged in no more alive performances till 1976. He used those four years to work on the score for Hall Bartlett's flick version of Richard Bach'south Jonathan Livingston Seagull and to record two albums, Serenade and Beautiful Noise. He said years later, "I knew I'd come back, simply I wasn't sure when. I spent one twelvemonth on each of those albums...I'd been on the road six years. I had a son 2½ and I felt he needed me more than the audition did. So for iv years I devoted myself to my son Jesse." He also said he needed to go dorsum to having a private life, one where he could be anonymous.[35]

In 1973, Diamond switched labels once again, returning to Columbia Records for a one thousand thousand-dollar-advance-per-album contract (about US$5.8 million per anthology in 2020 dollars[26]).[thirty] His kickoff project, released as a solo album, was the soundtrack to Jonathan Livingston Seagull. The motion-picture show received hostile reviews and did poorly at the box part, and the album grossed more than the film did. Richard D. Bach, author of the acknowledged source story, disowned the moving picture, and he and Diamond sued Bartlett, though for differing reasons; in Bach'due south example, it was because he felt the film omitted likewise much from the original novella, whereas in Diamond'south case, it was because he felt the film had butchered his score. "Later on 'Jonathan,'" Diamond declared, "I vowed never to get involved in a picture again unless I had complete control." Bartlett angrily responded to Diamond's lawsuit by criticizing his music as having become "as well slick...and information technology'southward not as much from his heart as it used to be." Bartlett also added, "Neil is extraordinarily talented. Ofttimes his arrogance is just a embrace for the lonely and insecure person underneath."[38]

Despite the controversy surrounding the film, the soundtrack was a success, peaking at No. ii on the Billboard albums chart. Diamond also won a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and a Grammy Laurels for Best Score Soundtrack Anthology for a Motion Picture.[30] Thereafter, Diamond oftentimes included a Jonathan Livingston Seagull suite in his live performances, every bit he did in his 1976 "Love at the Greek" concert and for his prove in Las Vegas that same year.[39]

Diamond returned to live shows in 1976 with an Australian tour, "The 'Give thanks You lot Australia' Concert", which was broadcast to 36 television outlets nationwide. He also again appeared at the Greek Theater in a 1976 concert, Love at the Greek. An anthology and accompanying video/DVD of the show includes a version of "Song Sung Blue" with duets with Helen Reddy and Henry Winkler, a.k.a. Arthur "The Fonz" Fonzarelli of Happy Days.[40]

He began wearing colorful beaded shirts in concert, originally and so that everyone in the audience could see him without binoculars.[41] Bill Whitten designed and fabricated the shirts for Diamond from the 1970s till approximately 2007.[42]

In 1974, Diamond released the album Serenade, from which "Longfellow Serenade" and "I've Been This Way Earlier" were issued equally singles. The latter had been intended for the Jonathan Livingston Seagull score, but Diamond had completed it besides tardily for inclusion. That aforementioned year he appeared on a Television receiver special for Shirley Bassey and sang a duet with her.[43]

Diamond performing on opening night of the Theater For the Performing Arts at the Aladdin Hotel & Casino, on July 2, 1976.

In 1976, he released Beautiful Racket, produced by Robbie Robertson of The Band. On Thanksgiving 1976, Diamond fabricated an appearance at The Band's farewell concert, The Last Waltz, performing "Dry Your Eyes", which he wrote jointly with Robertson, and which had appeared on Beautiful Noise. He as well joined the rest of the performers onstage at the terminate in a rendition of Bob Dylan'southward "I Shall Be Released".

Diamond was paid $650,000 (most United states$3 million in 2020 dollars[26]) from the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, to open its new $10 one thousand thousand Theater For the Performing Arts on July 2, 1976. The prove played through July 5 and drew sold-out crowds at the seven,500-seat theater. A "who'south who" of Hollywood attended opening dark, ranging from Elizabeth Taylor to Chevy Chase, and Diamond walked out on stage to a continuing ovation. He opened the show with a story almost an ex-girlfriend who dumped him before he became successful. His lead-in line to the first song of the evening was, "You may take dumped me a bit too soon, baby, considering look who'due south standing here tonight."

He performed at Woburn Abbey on July 2, 1977, to an audience of 55,000 British fans. The concert and interviews were taped past film manager William Friedkin, who used six cameras to capture the performance.[44]

In 1977, Diamond released I'm Glad Y'all're Hither With Me Tonight, including "Yous Don't Bring Me Flowers", for which he composed the music and on the writing of whose lyrics he collaborated with Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman. Barbra Streisand covered the song on her album Songbird, and afterward, a Diamond-Streisand duet was recorded, spurred past the success of radio mash-ups. That version hit No. 1 in 1978, his third song to superlative the Hot 100. They appeared unannounced at the 1980 Grammy awards ceremony, where they performed the vocal to a surprised and rapturous audience.[45]

His last 1970s album was September Morn, which included a new version of "I'm a Believer". It and "Red Ruddy Wine" are his all-time-known original songs fabricated more famous by other artists. In February 1979, the uptempo "Forever in Blue Jeans", co-written and jointly composed with his guitarist, Richard Bennett, was released every bit a single from You Don't Bring Me Flowers, Diamond's album from the previous yr.[46]

In 1979, Diamond complanate on phase in San Francisco and was taken to the infirmary, where he endured a 12-60 minutes operation to remove what turned out to be a tumor on his spine.[47] He said he had been losing feeling in his right leg "for a number of years but ignored information technology." When he collapsed, he had no strength in either leg.[47] He underwent a long rehabilitation process just before starting principal photography on his film The Jazz Singer (1980).[48] He was then convinced he was going to die that he wrote farewell letters to his friends.[47]

1980s [edit]

A planned film version of "Y'all Don't Bring Me Flowers" to star Diamond and Streisand vicious through when Diamond instead starred in a 1980 remake of the Al Jolson classic The Jazz Vocalizer alongside Laurence Olivier and Lucie Arnaz. Though the movie received poor reviews, the soundtrack spawned three Meridian ten singles, "Love on the Rocks", "Hello Again", and "America", the last of which had emotional significance for Diamond. "'America' was the story of my grandparents," he told an interviewer. "It's my gift to them, and it'south very real for me ... In a way, information technology speaks to the immigrant in all of u.s.."[21] : 89 The song was performed in full by Diamond during the film's finale.[49] An abbreviated version played over the flick's opening titles.

The vocal was too the one he was most proud of, partly because of when information technology was later used: national news shows played it when the hostages were shown returning home later on the Iran earnest crisis ended; it was played on the air during the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty;[50] and at a tribute to slain civil rights leader Martin Luther Male monarch Jr., also as the Vietnam Vets Welcome Home concert, he was asked to perform information technology live. At the time, a national poll constitute the song to exist the number-one most recognized song about America, more than "God Anoint America".[11] Information technology besides became the canticle of his world tour 2 weeks after the attacks on America on September 11, 2001, when he inverse the lyric at the cease from; "They're coming to America", to "Stand up for America!" Earlier that year he performed information technology after a asking from sometime heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali.[51]

The film's failure was due in part to Diamond never having acted professionally before. "I didn't recall I could handle information technology," he said afterwards, seeing himself as "a fish out of water."[21] : 85 For his performance, Diamond became the starting time-ever winner of a Worst Role player Razzie Laurels, even though he was nominated for a Gold Globe Award for the same role. Critic David Wild noted that the film showed that Diamond was open near his religion: "Who else but this Jewish Elvis could go multi-platinum with an anthology that featured a version of 'the Kol Nidre?'"[11] [52] Diamond later told the Los Angeles Times, "For me, this was the ultimate bar mitzvah."[21] : 85

Some other Top 10 choice, "Heartlight", was inspired by the blockbuster 1982 movie East.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. Though the moving picture's championship character is never mentioned in the lyrics, Universal Pictures, which had released Eastward.T. The Extra-Terrestrial and was the parent company of the Uni Records characterization, by then called MCA Records, for which Diamond had recorded for years, briefly threatened legal activeness against both Diamond and Columbia Records.

Diamond'due south tape sales slumped somewhat in the 1980s and 1990s, his last single to make the Billboard'southward Pop Singles chart coming in 1986, just his concert tours continued to exist big draws. Billboard mag ranked Diamond equally the virtually assisting solo performer of 1986.[53] He released his 17th studio anthology in 1986, Headed for the Futurity, which reached number 20 on the Billboard 200. 3 weeks later he starred in Hi Again, his commencement tv special in 9 years, performing comedy sketches and a duo medley with Carol Burnett.[54]

In January 1987, Diamond sang the national anthem at the Super Basin. His "America" became the theme vocal for the Michael Dukakis 1988 presidential entrada. That same year, UB40'south reggae interpretation of Diamond's ballad "Red Red Vino" topped the Billboard Pop Singles chart and, similar the Monkees' version of "I'm a Believer", became better known than Diamond'southward original version.

1990s [edit]

During the 1990s, Diamond produced half dozen studio albums. He covered many classic songs from the movies and from famous Brill Building-era songwriters. He also released two Christmas albums, the beginning of which peaked at No. 8 on Billboard's Album nautical chart. Diamond also recorded ii albums of mostly new fabric during this menstruum. In 1992, he performed for President George H.W. Bush's terminal Christmas in Washington NBC special. In 1993, Diamond opened the Marker of the Quad Cities (now the iWireless Eye) with two shows on May 27 and 28 to a crowd of 27,000-plus.

The 1990s saw a resurgence in Diamond'south popularity. "Sweetness Caroline" became a popular sing-along at sporting events. Information technology was used at Boston College football and basketball game games. College sporting events in other states besides played it,[55] and it was fifty-fifty played at sports events in other countries, such as a Hong Kong Sevens rugby tournament[56] or a soccer match in Northern Ireland.[57] It is played at every home game of the Sydney Swans of the Australian Football League. It became the theme song of Red Sox Nation, the fans of the Boston Cerise Sox.[58] [f]

The New York Rangers also adapted it equally their ain and played it whenever they were winning at the end of the third period of their games. The Pitt Panthers football game squad also played it later the tertiary quarter of all home games, with the crowd cheering, "Allow'south go Pitt". The Carolina Panthers played it at the end of every dwelling house game they won. The Davidson Higher pep ring likewise played it in the 2nd one-half of every Davidson Wildcats men's basketball home game.[ citation needed ]

2000s [edit]

A more severely stripped-downward-to-basics album, 12 Songs, produced past Rick Rubin, was released on November 8, 2005, in two editions: a standard 12-song release, and a special edition with two bonus tracks, including one featuring backing vocals past Brian Wilson. The anthology debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard chart, and received generally positive reviews; Earliwine describes the anthology equally "inarguably Neil Diamond's best set of songs in a long, long time."[60] 12 Songs also became noteworthy as one of the last albums to be pressed and released by Sony BMG with the Extended Re-create Protection software embedded in the disc. (See the 2005 Sony BMG CD re-create protection scandal.)

In 2007, Diamond was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame.[61]

On March 19, 2008, information technology was announced on the telly evidence American Idol that Diamond would be a guest mentor to the remaining Idol contestants, who would sing Diamond songs for the broadcasts of Apr 29 and 30, 2008. On the April 30 broadcast, Diamond premiered a new vocal, "Pretty Amazing Grace", from his and so recently released album Home Before Dark.[62] On May 2, 2008, Sirius Satellite Radio started Neil Diamond Radio. On April 8, 2008, Diamond made a surprise announcement in a big-screen broadcast at Fenway Park that he would exist appearing there "live in concert" on Baronial 23, 2008, as function of his world tour. The announcement, which marked the start official confirmation of whatever 2008 concert dates in the Usa, came during the traditional eighth-inning singalong of "Sweet Caroline", which had by that time go an anthem for Boston fans.

On April 28, 2008, Diamond appeared on the roof of the Jimmy Kimmel building to sing "Sweetness Caroline" after Kimmel was jokingly arrested for singing the song dressed equally a Diamond impersonator.

Abode Before Dark was released May six, 2008, and topped the album charts in New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the U.s.a..[63]

On June 29, 2008, Diamond played to an estimated 108,000 fans at the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, England on the Concert of a Lifetime Tour; technical problems[ which? ] marred the concert.[64] [65] In August, Diamond allowed cameras to record his entire four-nighttime run at New York's Madison Square Garden; he released the resulting DVD in the U.Due south. in 2009, 1 year to the day of the first concert.[66] Hot August Night/NYC debuted at No. 2 on the charts. On the same day the DVD was released, CBS aired an edited version, which won the ratings hr with 13 million viewers. The next day, the sales of the DVD surged, prompting Sony to order more copies to run into the high demand.

On Baronial 25, 2008, Diamond performed at The Ohio State University while suffering from laryngitis. The issue disappointed him besides equally his fans, and on August 26, he offered refunds to anyone who applied by September five.[67]

Diamond was honored as the MusiCares Person of the Twelvemonth on February vi, 2009, two nights before the 51st Almanac Grammy Awards.

Long loved in Boston, Diamond was invited to sing at the July iv, 2009, Independence 24-hour interval celebration.

On October 13, 2009, he released A Cherry Cherry Christmas, his third album of vacation music.

2010s [edit]

On November 2, 2010, Diamond released the anthology Dreams, a collection of fourteen interpretations of his favorite songs by artists from the rock era. The anthology also included a new slow-tempo arrangement of his "I'm a Believer". In December, he performed a track from the anthology, "Ain't No Sunshine", on NBC's The Sing-Off with Committed and Street Corner Symphony, ii a cappella groups featured on the prove. The Very Best of Neil Diamond, a compilation CD of Diamond's 23 studio recordings from the Bang, UNI/MCA, & Columbia catalogs, was released on December 6, 2011, on the Sony Legacy label.

The years 2011 and 2012 were marked past several milestones in Diamond'due south career. On March 14, 2011, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at a ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. In December, he received a lifetime achievement award from the Kennedy Centre at the 2011 Kennedy Center Honors.[68] [69] On August x, 2012, Diamond received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[70] In November 2012, he topped the nib at the centenary edition of the Royal Variety Performance in the Great britain, which was transmitted[ where? ] on Dec 3. He also appeared in the Macy's Thanksgiving Twenty-four hour period Parade.[71]

On April 20, 2013, Diamond fabricated an unannounced appearance at Fenway Park to sing "Sweet Caroline" during the 8th inning.[72] Information technology was the kickoff game at Fenway since the Boston Marathon bombing.[73] On July 2, he released the single "Freedom Song (They'll Never Take U.s.a. Down)", with 100% of the buy toll benefiting One Fund Boston and the Wounded Warrior Projection.[74] Sporting a bristles, Diamond performed alive on the west lawn of the U.South. Capitol equally part of A Capitol Fourth, which was broadcast nationally past PBS on July 4, 2013.[75]

In Jan 2014, it was confirmed that Diamond had signed with the Capitol Music Group unit of Universal Music Group, which also endemic Diamond's Uni/MCA itemize. UMG too took over Diamond'south Columbia and Bang catalogues, which meant that all of his recorded output would be consolidated for the showtime fourth dimension.[76] [77]

On July eight, 2014, Capitol Records announced, via a flyer included with Diamond's latest greatest hits compilations, All-Time Greatest Hits, which charted at xv in the Billboard 200, that his next album, Tune Road, which was to be produced past Don Was and Jacknife Lee, would be released on September thirty, 2014. In August, the release appointment was moved to October 21.[78]

In September 2014, Diamond performed a surprise concert at his alma mater, Erasmus High School in Brooklyn. The show was announced via Twitter that afternoon. On the same mean solar day, he appear a 2015 "Melody Road" Globe Tour.[79] The North American leg of the World Tour 2015 launched with a concert in Allentown, PA at the PPL Center on Feb 27 and concluded at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado on May 31, 2015.[fourscore] Diamond used new media platforms and social media extensively throughout the tour, streaming several shows alive on Periscope and showing tweets from fans who used the hashtag #tweetcaroline on two large screens. The San Diego Union-Tribune wrote: "This, my friends, wasn't your granddaddy'due south Neil Diamond concert. It was a multimedia extravaganza. Twitter. Periscope...It was a social media blitzkrieg that, by all accounts, proved to be an innovative way to widen his fan base of operations."[81]

In October 2016, Diamond released Acoustic Christmas, a folk-inspired Christmas anthology of original songs likewise every bit acoustic versions of holiday classics. Produced by Was and Lee, who had produced Tune Road, the idea for the album began to take shape as the Tune Road sessions ended. To "channel the intimate atmosphere of '60s folk, Diamond recorded Audio-visual Christmas with a handful of musicians, sitting around a circumvolve of microphones, wires and, of course, Christmas lights."[82]

In March 2017, the career-spanning anthology Neil Diamond 50 – 50th Anniversary Collection was released. He began his final concert tour, the 50 Twelvemonth Anniversary World Tour in Fresno, California, in Apr.[83] [84]

In 2019, his 1969 signature song "Sweet Caroline" was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[85]

2020s [edit]

On March seven, 2020, despite his retirement due to Parkinson's disease, Diamond gave a rare performance at the Keep Memory Alive Power of Love Gala at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, where he was beingness honored.[86]

On March 22, 2020, Diamond posted a video to YouTube playing "Sweet Caroline" with slightly modified lyrics ("...washing hands, don't touch me, I won't touch y'all...") in response to the widespread social distancing measures implemented due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.[87]

In April 2021, The New York Times reported that A Beautiful Noise, a musical based on Diamond's life and featuring his songs, would open at the Emerson Colonial Theater in Boston in the summertime of 2022. The musical was scheduled to open on Broadway following the monthlong run in Boston.[88]

Universal Music Group caused Diamond's songwriting catalog and the rights to his Bang Records, Columbia Records, and Capitol recordings in February 2022 (Universal, who owns Capitol and was already licensing the rest of his primary recordings and administering well-nigh of his publishing, already owned his Uni/MCA master tapes). The acquisition also included 110 unreleased tracks, an unreleased anthology and archival videos. [89]

Retirement from touring [edit]

In January 2018, Diamond announced that he would immediately retire from touring due to having been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.[90] [91] Tour dates on the concluding leg of Diamond's "50 Year Ceremony World Tour" in Australia and New Zealand were cancelled. An announcement on his official website said he was not retiring from music and that the counterfoil of the live performances would allow him to "continue his writing, recording and development of new projects."[92]

On July 28, 2018, Diamond and his wife Katie McNeil made a surprise visit to the Incident Control post in Basalt, Colorado—near where Diamond lives—to thank the firefighters and families with a solo acoustic guitar concert for efforts in containing the Lake Christine Fire, which began on July 3 and had scorched 12,000 acres (4,900 ha; 49 km2) of land.[93]

In popular culture [edit]

In 1967, Diamond was featured on the quaternary episode of the detective drama Mannix as the 'featured' artist in a small underground club chosen 'The BAD SCENE' and was interrupted during his singing by i of many fights that took place weekly on the show.[94]

In 2000, Neil Diamond appeared onstage with Diamond tribute band, Super Diamond, surprising them before their show at House of Dejection in Los Angeles.[95]

In the 2001 comedy movie Saving Silverman, the primary characters play in a Diamond encompass ring, and Diamond made an extended cameo appearance as himself. Diamond even wrote and composed a new song, "I Believe in Happy Endings", for the film. He saturday in with the tribute band Super Diamond at the film's premiere party.[96]

In 2008, Diamond gave film-maker Greg Kohs permission to use his songs in a documentary. Kohs, a director from Philadelphia, had met a popular Milwaukee, Wisconsin, duo, Lightning & Thunder, composed of Mike Sardina, who did a Diamond impersonation, and his wife Claire. Kohs followed them for viii years and produced the film Song Sung Blue. Though Sardina had died in 2006, Diamond invited his widow and her family to be his front-row guests at his testify in Milwaukee, where he told them he was moved past the moving-picture show.[97]

In the CBS comedy The Large Bang Theory, main characters Howard Wolowitz and Amy Farrah-Fowler are fans of Diamond's work.[98]

Personal life [edit]

Diamond has been married three times. In 1963, he married his loftier-school sweetheart, Jaye Posner, who had go a schoolteacher. They had ii daughters, Marjorie and Elyn.[99] They separated in 1967[100] and divorced in 1969.[99]

On December 5, 1969, Diamond married production assistant Marcia Murphey.[99] They had two sons, Jesse and Micah.[99] The marriage lasted 25 years, catastrophe in 1994[99] or 1995.[100]

In 1996, Diamond began a lengthy, live-in relationship with Australian Rae Farley later the two met in Brisbane, Commonwealth of australia. The songs on Habitation Earlier Dark were written and composed during her struggle with chronic back pain.[48]

On September 7, 2011, in a message on Twitter, the 70-twelvemonth-old Diamond announced his engagement to the 41-year-old Katie McNeil. Diamond said that his 2014 album Tune Road was fueled by their relationship, explaining:

There'due south no better inspiration or motivation for piece of work than being in dearest. It's what you dream of equally a artistic person. I was able to consummate this album—kickoff it, write it and complete information technology—under the spell of love, and I think information technology shows somehow.[101]

The couple married in forepart of family and close friends in Los Angeles in 2012.[102] In add-on to serving as Diamond's manager, McNeil produced the documentary Neil Diamond: Hot August Nights NYC.[103]

Discography [edit]

Filmography [edit]

Diamond had a tv appearance and roles in some movies, notably:

  • Mannix, "The Many Deaths of Saint Christopher" (1967) as himself
  • The Jazz Singer, starring part as Jess Robin
  • Saving Silverman actualization as himself

Notes [edit]

  1. ^ Sources variously list the marriage as ending in 1994 or 1995.
  2. ^ His showtime life ambition was medicine, as he one time told talk show host Larry King, "I actually wanted to be a laboratory biologist. I wanted to written report. And I actually wanted to find a cure for cancer. My grandmother had died of cancer. And I was always very proficient at the sciences. And I thought I would go and try and find the cure for cancer."
  3. ^ Thirty-5 years subsequently, in 1995, New York University gave him an honorary degree.[27] Later in his career he said, "If this darn songwriting thing hadn't come upwardly, I would have been a dr. at present."[21] : 26
  4. ^ Richard released versions of "I'll Come up Running", "Lone Man", "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Shortly", "I Got the Feelin' (Oh No No)", and "Just Some other Guy".
  5. ^ Prior to the release of "Solitary Man", he had considered using a phase name; he came upward with "Noah Kaminsky" and "Eice Charry."[29] Bang Records asked him which name to employ, and he thought of his grandmother, who had died prior to the release of "Solitary Man"; he told Blindside to "become with 'Neil Diamond' and I'll figure it out subsequently."
  6. ^ Although Diamond noted that he had been a lifelong fan of the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers.[59]

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External links [edit]

  • Official website
  • Neil Diamond'southward Band's Official Site
  • "Neil Diamond". Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Edit this at Wikidata
  • Neil Diamond at IMDb

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