In a career spanning four decades, Neil Leslie Diamond offered his listeners a collection of songs that were sometimes schmaltzy, sometimes openly patriotic, but always melodic and well-sung. Beginning his career while a student at New York University,...

Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and occasional actor. From the 1960s to the 1980s, Diamond was one of the more successful pop music performers, scoring a number of hits in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. As...

Picked-up pieces while remembering Babe Ruth and Elvis Presley, who both died on Aug. 16 . . . The new Fenway scapegoat is batting coach Jim Rice. The Sox aren't hitting, so it must be somebody's fault. Rice makes himself a target with...

HES one of music worlds biggest stars and has given us a string ofclassic hits including Sweet Caroline, I Am ... I Said and Cracklin Rosieduring an amazing career stretching back to the Sixties. Now, after nearly four years away from the...

Neil Diamond takes his songs personally. Because if they don't mirror his feelings and emotions, he says, they won't be any good. "The main objective in any song I write has always been that it reflects the way I feel," he told IBD. "That it...

Neil Diamond held onto the secret for decades, but he has finally revealed that President Kennedy's daughter was the inspiration for his smash hit "Sweet Caroline.""I've never discussed it with anybody before — intentionally," the 66-year-old singer-songwriter told The Associated Press on Monday during a...

Diamond's latest album, Tap Root Manuscript, is a half step at being Artistic. Side One is the usual—a couple of dynamite singles and a couple of not-so-hot singles. "Cracklin Rosie," which made it to number one nationally, is excellent Neil Diamond. Named after the wine of the same name … Rosie's a good chick. Diamond isn't afraid to throw in a little early-Sixties schmaltz. He has thoroughly bypassed, or ignored "rock"—progressive or ot...

["Beautiful Noise"] is one of the most satisfying and commercially viable albums Diamond has come up with in years, an energetic "up" set that showcases more of the Diamond versatility as a singer and songwriter than both of his past Columbia efforts combined…. [The album] opens with two uptempo, goodtime songs. "Beautiful Noise," as well as being the title cut, is an uptempo expression of some of the joys of the city, especially the era of the late '5...

[Neil Diamond] has written and sung some of the smoothest and best contemporary pop, yet he remains a performer in search of a tradition, a megabucks pilgrim looking for roots he never had and a place in which to settle. Rock really is not his neighborhood; his fur-lined melodies and forthright sentimentality make him stand out among rockers like a Couperde Ville at a demolition derby. Diamond has been a smash act in Las Vegas, but he is neither as smooth as Sinatra, as cloying as Wayne Newton nor as annoyi...