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Diamond songs sung true
(Las Vegas Sun)
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Jay White performs as Neil Diamond on Sunday at Le Bistro Theatre at the Riviera, where he has been impersonating the entertainer for nearly 10 years. Diamond has said he isn't considering an ongoing Vegas show and left the city off his tour schedule, so this former insurance salesman is local fans' go-to guy....
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Aug 19, 2008 @ 05:00 PM
ROUGH DIAMOND
(New York Post)
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NEIL Diamond spewing obscenities and shooting heroin? It nearly happened. In the upcoming bio, "He Is . . . I Say," David Wild reveals the famed singer-songwriter wanted to shed his squeaky-clean image by portraying Lenny Bruce in the 1974 flick "Lenny" and even did a successful screen test....
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Aug 19, 2008 @ 08:00 AM
Name the best crowd participation concert song
(Entertainment Weekly)
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I went to see Neil Diamond at Madison Square Garden Friday night, and it could be the most fun I've ever had at a concert. Though the squeals I let out at the start of "I Am... I Said" and "Love on the Rocks" were involuntary, I could've probably controlled myself during "Sweet Caroline" but didn't....
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Aug 19, 2008 @ 08:00 AM
Diamond delivers a gem of a concert
(Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
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Neil Diamond's hard core fan base showed up at Mellon Arena last night to hear the iconic singer-songwriter deliver a solid two-hour set of some of the most popular tunes ever penned.
Diamond kicked the night off barreling through "Holly Holy," "Beautiful Noise" and "Street Life" with such professional polish and showmanship you forgot that this guy started his career as a Tin-Pan Alley songwriter and is pushing 70 years old....
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Aug 19, 2008 @ 06:00 AM
Neil Diamond concert hits nostalgic note with fans
(Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
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Buzz up!
Neil Diamond is one of those hallowed performers who never seems to age. At the Mellon Arena Monday night, he put on a concert awash in nostalgia; the fans who came to hear the hits got them, from "I Am ... I Said" to "Sweet Caroline."
What's surprising is that this was not a show that belongs in a time capsule....
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Aug 18, 2008 @ 09:00 PM
This time it's not a recording
(Boston.com)
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There's something almost mystical about the prospect of Neil Diamond singing "Sweet Caroline" in the flesh at Fenway Park next Saturday. The song, which blasts from the speakers at every home game, has become the team's unofficial anthem and more: a rousing eighth-inning singalong-turned-musical totem whose propitious properties remain a mystery - even to the songwriter who the folks at Fenway have been trying to lure to the park for years....
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Aug 16, 2008 @ 05:00 PM
Music Preview: 50 years going, Neil Diamond finds the top of the charts
(Pittsburgh Post Gazette)
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Well, like him or not, he's one of the most successful recording artists of all time:
* He's sold nearly 120 million albums worldwide.
* He's had 38 Top 40 hits.
* His songs have been covered by everyone from Sinatra to Presley to Killdozer....
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Aug 14, 2008 @ 05:00 AM
Glittery Diamond Charms Fans (and a Convert) With Greatest Hits
(Bloomberg News)
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Aug. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Looking rugged and fit in a black suit and glittery embroidered shirt, Neil Diamond belted out ''America'' as 12,860 mostly middle-aged fans at New York's Madison Square Garden danced and sang along like a backup choir.
To my amazement, I was one of those fans at Diamond's sizzling two-hour show on Tuesday night....
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Aug 13, 2008 @ 10:00 PM
Neil Diamond Talks About His Tour, No, 1 Album
(Albany Times Unioin)
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Neil Diamond has been cranking out hit after hit since "Cherry, Cherry" first landed in the Top 10 back in 1966. That's more than four decades on the charts.
And he's still breaking new ground....
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Aug 13, 2008 @ 09:00 PM
Neil Diamond stays the course
(Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
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Neil Diamond seems to be immune to the trends of the music business.
Rock 'n' roll was in its infancy when he had his first hits, "Solitary Man" and "Cherry, Cherry." In the '70s, when the Eagles, Jackson Browne and other sensitive souls emerged, when disco balls glittered their brightest, Diamond stayed the course with "Sweet Caroline" and "Song Sung Blue...."
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Aug 13, 2008 @ 09:00 PM
Confessions of a Practical Blonde: Audible Sensation
(iBerkshires.com)
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Certain senses trigger memories and sensations. The taste of freshly picked butter-and-sugar corn transports you to a fun summer day, the sight of a beautiful sunset may take you back to a passionate moment or the feel of clean cotton sheets may remind you of a lazy summer afternoon nap....
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Aug 13, 2008 @ 03:00 PM
Diamond's Still Got It 40 Years Later
(Stafford County Sun - Virginia)
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''The American Popular Song goes on and on?'' Neil Diamond?s lyrics proclaim. Yes it does. The American popular song industry is huge. Some of the music is great; some is hardly music at all....
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Aug 13, 2008 @ 03:00 PM
Neil Diamond Facts
(Pittsburgh Gazette)
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* Neil Leslie Diamond was born Jan. 24, 1941, in Brooklyn, N.Y., to Rose and Akeeba (Kieve) Diamond, a dry-goods merchant.
* He was turned on to music when Pete Seeger played at his summer camp.
* He received his first guitar as a birthday present in 1957....
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Aug 13, 2008 @ 03:00 PM
King of Diamonds
(Las Vegas Sun)
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Neil Diamond just started his 37-city U.S. tour -- tonight he begins a four-night stand at Madison Square Garden.
Hey Neil, you forgot to pencil in a Vegas stop!
In a recent interview, Diamond, 67, said he isn't considering a Vegas residency like fellow sexagenarian icons Bette Midler, Cher, Elton John and Barry Manilow, all of whom remain big concert draws.
"I feel it's like one of my obligations as an artist to come to people's hometowns and play my music for them," Diamond told the Detroit Free Press....
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Aug 12, 2008 @ 05:00 PM
Bob Dylan and Neil Diamond to play New York City on same night
(New York Daily News)
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That music in the air Tuesday evening could be coming from a couple of nice Jewish boys who happen to have arrived in town at the same time: Neil Diamond, at Madison Square Garden, and Bob Dylan, at Prospect Park in Brooklyn....
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Aug 12, 2008 @ 05:00 AM
DIAMOND IS FOREVER
(New York Post)
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NEIL Diamond has a polarizing effect on people. You either love or hate him, but lately there seems to be lots o' love for this 67-year-old American treasure. This past spring when he conducted a master class on "American Idol," the hit talent show had one of its highest-rated episodes ever. And a couple of weeks later, when Diamond dropped his new "Home Before Dark," the record debuted at the top of the charts....
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Aug 12, 2008 @ 04:00 AM
The Marathon Man of Pop
(New York Times)
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HARTFORD - Four decades into a career as the sequined king of soft rock, celebrated in his 1970s peak as much for his rakish growl and helmet of wavy hair as for hits like ''Sweet Caroline'' and ''Song Sung Blue,'' Neil Diamond is enjoying something of a career renaissance....
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Aug 11, 2008 @ 06:00 PM
Neil Diamond performs at Wachovia Center
(Philadelphia Inquirer)
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Of course Neil Diamond's show at the Wachovia Center on Saturday - the first of two nights - contained schmaltzy and over-the-top moments. It would have been a disappointment had it not.
But those moments were exceptions: the thematically programmed two-hour set mostly bypassed the beloved entertainer's soft-rock mid-career in favor of his vast catalog of early hits and his more subdued recent work....
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Aug 11, 2008 @ 05:00 AM
NEIL DIAMOND - DIAMOND CREDITS TONE-DEAF GIRLFRIEND FOR MAINES DUET
(Contact Music )
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Crooner NEIL DIAMOND has his girlfriend to thank for his hit duet with NATALIE MAINES - because her inadvertently taped background singing inspired the hitmaker to call on the DIXIE CHICK.
Diamond insists he never considered Another Day as a duet until he heard his Australian girlfriend Rae Farley singing with him on a playback demo tape....
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Aug 10, 2008 @ 09:00 AM
Diamond Electrifying at XL Center
(The Republican - Springfield, Mass.)
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HARTFORD - Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline" has become such a central part of the Fenway Park experience that there is a generation or two of Red Sox fans that associate the song more with their team than with the man who made it a hit. That didn't stop Diamond from using the song as the centerpiece of his two-hour show at the XL Center in Hartford on Thursday night....
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Aug 9, 2008 @ 07:00 AM
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