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Neil Diamond at Eighty: His Standout Gems
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I am doing a few birthday…
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Lockdown Playlists because, recently, there have been some big musical birthdays. Neil Diamond is eighty tomorrow (24th January), so I thought I would honour the great man. Diamond has sold more than one-hundred-million records worldwide – he is one of the best-selling musicians of all time. Diamond was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011. He received the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. In 2011, he was an honouree at the Kennedy Center Honors, and he received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018. If we’re truthful, I think we can all name a Neil Diamond classic! From Song Sung Blue, Sweet Caroline, I Am…I Said, America, to Kentucky Woman, there are plenty of jewels in his crown! Neil Diamond announced retirement from the stage because of Parkinson’s Disease but, in spite of this, he gave a memorable performance at the Keep Memory Alive Power of Love Gala at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on 7th March last year. Happy eightieth birthday to songwriting legend and a musician whose music was quite a big part of my childhood. If you are new to the work of Neil Diamond, then I hope you like a rundown of…
SOME of his best songs.